Sensor Housings & Functions
| HOUSINGS: SENSOR PACKAGE | MAX SENSOR RATING |
|---|---|
| RFID, Audio or Visual Device, Headware | 2 |
| Handheld Device, Small (or Smaller) drone | 3 |
| Wall-Mounted Device, Medium Drone | 4 |
| Large Drone, Cyberlimb | 5 |
| Motorcycle | 6 |
| Vehicle (Larger than a Motorcycle) | 7 |
| Buildings, Airports, etc. | 8 |
Sensors can be put into devices that have capacity. Most vehicles and drones come factory-equipped with a sensor array (at a rating listed with their stats). What you can put your sensor in is limited by the Rating of the sensor (see Sensor Housings table).
| FUNCTION | MAX RANGE |
|---|---|
| Atmosphere Sensor | - |
| Camera | - |
| Cyberware Scanner | 15 meters |
| Directional Microphone | - |
| Geiger Counter | - |
| Laser Microphone | 100 meters |
| Laser Range Finder | 1.000 meters |
| MAD Scanner | 5 meters |
| Motion Sensor | 25 meters |
| Olfactory Sensor | - |
| Omni-Directional Microphone | - |
| Radio Signal Scanner | 20 meters |
| Ultrasound | 50 meters |
Sensor Functions
All of the functions you can choose for your sensor(s)
are listed on the Sensor Functions table. If a function has
the same name as an imaging or audio device, it’s the
same as its description in those sections, with a Capacity
equal to its Rating, and thus is not described here.
Atmosphere sensor: Weather forecasts are notoriously untrustworthy (thanks to pollution, the Awakening, and other factors), but atmospheric sensors can keep you from getting caught in the rain with up-to-the second analysis of what’s happening in the air around you.
Cyberware scanner: This millimeter-wave scanner is primarily intended to detect cyber-implants but can be used to identify other contraband as well. Maximum range 15 meters.
Geiger counter: This sensor picks up the amount of radioactivity surrounding it.
Laser range finder: This simple sensor emits a laser beam that is reflected off a target’s surface and picked up by a detector to calculate the exact distance to the target.
MAD scanner: The MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detection) scanner is used to detect weapons and concentrations of metal. It has a maximum range of 5 meters.
Motion sensor: This sensor uses a mix of ultrasound and low-power infrared to detect motion and drastic changes in the ambient temperature. Maximum range is 25 meters.
Olfactory scanner: The olfactory sensor picks up and analyzes the molecules in the air. It works in the same way as the olfactory booster cyberware.
Radio signal scanner: This can be used as a bug scanner (p. 440 CRB).
Ultrasound: The ultrasound accessory consists of an emitter that sends out continuous ultrasonic pulses and a receiver that picks up the echoes of these pulses to create a topographic ultrasound map. Ultrasound is perfect to “see” textures, calculate distances between objects, and pick up things otherwise invisible to the naked eye (like people cloaked by an Invisibility spell), it can’t handle colors or brightness. It also can’t penetrate materials like glass that would be transparent to optical sensors. You can set it to a passive mode, where it doesn’t emit ultrasonic pulses but still picks up ultrasound from outside sources, such as motion sensors or someone else’s ultrasound sensors on active mode (or bats).
Vision magnification: This zoom function digitally magnifies vision by up to 50 times, allowing distant targets to be seen clearly assuming a clear line of sight. For rules on using vision magnification in ranged combat, see p. 178 CRB.