rero Infrared Sensor is easy to use sensor which detects obstacle and proximity. When powered on, the LED will be lighted on in blue color as power indicator. By default the Red LED indicator of the rero IR sensor is off. The user can change the LED register of the control register to make it when the sensor detects an obstacle, the red LED will light on. rero IR sensor has auto calibration function to calibrate the sensor detection threshold to the surface that it will operate.
The user can test rero IR sensor using the rero Controller ‘Sensors’ menu. Connect the IR Sensor to rero Controller, then go into Sensor Menu. The IR sensor values are displayed as scrolling bar with the numeric value from 0 to 255 depending on the reflected IR ray intensity.