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Measuring and detecting units consist of low-power devices, such as sensors and switch-based detectors interfacing with electrically-driven machines involved in process operations. As such, they convert related physical output signals from the actuating unit into voltage or binary signals ready to be used within the data processing and computing unit. Some key functions of these devices are: (i) data acquisition related to the change of machine variables; and (ii) conversion of the machine-gathered signal into electrical or optical signals. Depending on the nature of the process signal generated, a signal conditioner can be added.