Tech Briefs Magazine - May 2023 - Sensor-6

Highlights of
Sensors Converge 2023
T
his year, Sensors Converge will be
held at the Santa Clara (California)
Convention Center from Tuesday
June 20 - Thursday June 22.
The conference will begin with a series
of pre-conference workshops on
Tuesday. They range over a variety of
topics that are significant for the current
and future state of sensing systems.
Some highlights include:
* Extending Battery Life to Empower
the IoT/IIoT (Tuesday 9AM to 12PM)
A half-day workshop about the critical
issue of extending battery life. The
use of sensor systems is steadily expanding,
not only for new applications,
but the sensors are more broadly
deployed with a single system. And
most of this growth involves battery-powered
" smart " sensors.
Therefore, the goal is to extend battery
life as long as possible with energy
harvesting, intelligent power
management, advancements in semiconductors/MEMS,
low-power wireless
communications, energy storage,
and test/validation to optimize energy
efficiency, utilization, and therefore
battery life.
* The Smarts Behind Smart Cities
and Smart Farms using Sensors in
IoT (Tuesday 9AM to 12PM)
Local governments are starting to understand
that they can run their cities
more efficiently and more safely by
utilizing the IoT.
It seems that every day there are new
IoT applications in agriculture, from
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detailed geographical monitoring of a
variety of soil conditions to monitoring
the health of crops and livestock.
* Printed, Flexible, and Stretchable and
Functional/E-Fabric
Sensors and
Sensor-Based Systems: Technology
Launchpads to Enable Emerging
Applications (Tuesday 9AM to 3PM)
There has been an exponential growth
in the field of flexible, printed, and
organic large-area electronics and sensors
driven by applications including
health and activity monitoring in wearables
for e-Health, sports/recreational
and military.
The expansion of telehealth services
that enable medical providers to use
remote monitoring for gathering
health data from smart sensors, can be
attributed to a couple of factors. Most
recently, with COVID-19, more and
more healthcare is provided remotely.
But even before that, as the proportion
of older people has been growing,
there has been a movement to age-athome,
rather than in a nursing facility.
Remote health monitoring is key to
making that possible.
Leaders' Roundtable - State of the
Industry: The New Era of Sensors
(Wednesday 8:30 to 9:15)
During this roundtable discussion,
top industry leaders will give a snapshot
of the state of the sensor and microchip
industry, the most impactful
enabling technologies. They will talk
through the key roadblocks that linger
relating to standardization, cost, size,
and power demand.
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Smart Sensor and Actuator Standards
and Interoperability for IoT, IIoT &
CPS (Wednesday 9:25 to 9:45)
Dr. Eugene Song, of the national
Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) will discuss the interoperability
standards without which the IoT and IIoT
could not exist. He will focus on a suite of
distributed architecture-based smart transducer
interface standards for sensors and
actuators, designated as IEEE 1451.
Keynote Address (Wednesday 11:00
to 11:20)
The first of two keynotes will be given by
Elena Fersman PhD, VP, Head of Global AI
Accelerator, Ericsson, and Adjunct
Professor of Cyber-Physical Systems at the
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
She will discuss how artificial intelligence
can be used to optimize the performance
of cyber-physical systems while guaranteeing
their mission-critical properties.
The session at 2:20 PM on Wednesday
addresses what I consider to be a critical
question:
The Need for more Sensors vs. the
Need for New Approaches with the
Sensor Data We Have
The amount of data generated by a
large sensor system over a short timeframe
can be quite large, into the gigabytes
and terabytes. By using whole data
logs and multivariate machine learning,
it is possible to expose data and trends
about underlying hardware and manufacturing
processes that were not originally
envisioned when the sensor system
was created.
-Ed Brown, editor, Sensor Technology
Sensor Technology, May 2023
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