Intelligent Sensing: Enabling the Next “Automation Age”

Abstract

Sensors and actuators, as well as their associated processing and connectivity functions, are now pervasive across a wide variety of application areas: industrial, medical and healthcare, transportation, consumer and personal devices, urban management, and robotics to name just a few (Figure 1.2.1). The use of sensors and actuators is supporting the evolution of each of these areas thus enabling what can be called the next “Automation Age”: