Signaalkorraldus

Signaalkorraldus is the set of practices and methods for organizing signals within a system. It encompasses the generation, conditioning, transmission, processing, and interpretation of signals in both analog and digital domains, as a core aspect of measurement, control and communication systems. The term is used in Estonian technical literature to describe signal management and processing across engineering disciplines.

In engineering, signaalkorraldus is applied to ensure signal integrity, accurate representation of information, and reliable interaction between components such as sensors, actuators and controllers. It covers signal conditioning, data acquisition, and the design of signal paths from sensor to display or actuator.

Key techniques include signal conditioning (impedance matching, amplification, filtering), sampling and quantization, digital signal processing, noise reduction, and synchronization. Modulation, encoding, and decoding are used when signals are transmitted over communication links, while multiplexing and timing control manage multiple signals in limited channels.

Typical hardware components are sensors and actuators, analog front-ends, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, filters, amplifiers, multiplexers, and signal processors. Software often implements control loops (for example, PID controllers) and higher-level signal analysis.

The concept overlaps with electronics, control theory, and computer science, and terminology varies by domain. In industrial automation, signaling standards include fieldbus and industrial communication protocols; in telecommunications, signaling relates to protocols for channel setup and data transfer.