Electrical circuitry, particularly, a line interface connected to the input / output line, and said interface parallel rectifier, and linked counter to the line interface, the set of counters and the electrode a concatenated data converter may comprise.
Comprising a set of at least one pair of electrodes, and circuitry for receiving and processing the output of the sensor, and an electronic circuit for detecting an output of the sensor (20). The set of electrodes, one electrode (40, 42) may be arranged so as to be wound in U-shaped manner (40, 42) around the other electrode (44, 46). Electronic circuitry, particularly, a line interface connected to the input / output line (18), and said interface parallel rectifier (22), and linked counter to the line interface (108), the set of counters and the electrode a concatenated data converter may comprise. Data converter may be a current / frequency converter. Furthermore, rectifier may derive power for the electronic circuitry from the communication pulses received from the input / output lines.