Intelligent MEMS Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2023) | Viewed by 3512
Special Issue Editor
Interests: MEMS; neuromorphic sensors; IoT; smart building
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensors have enabled simple and cheap data collection in smart devices in the internet of things (IoT) age. Emerging technologies, such as wearable devices and soft robots, require data collection for feedback control, and information processing aims to incorporate micro-sensors for this reason. However, traditional sensing methods, in which a MEMS sensor converts a physical quantity into an analog electrical signal, which is subsequently converted into digital; are likely insufficient for such technologies because of the very strict requirements of these technologies (power, space, and latency). Instead, a bio-inspired sensing scheme would be needed, at which information is pre-processed at, or near, the sensor node before being processed at the smart device’s “brain”. The more data is processed at away from the central-processors, the faster and less costly communication becomes; and the less information is needed to be processed at the computationally inefficient central processor.
Thus, there is a great need for new types of sensor technologies, specifically MEMS technologies, that performs computational processes along with sensing. Examples of these technologies include MEMS sensor networks, MEMS logic gates, and neuromorphic (neuro-inspired, neural network) MEMS. These technologies are ill-defined within the literature and would fit well under the umbrella of “Smart MEMS”.
Dr. Fadi Alsaleem
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- MEMS
- Digital MEMS
- sensor networks
- reservoir computing
- neuromorphic sensors
- smart MEMS
- IoT
