SENSORS | ARTICLE
Te drivers for the adoption of ‘smart built infrastructure’ include:
Smart Transport • Reduction in street and highway road congestion • Facilitating parking space selection • Reduction in vehicle emissions and fuel consumption
• Reduction of accidents for motorists/pedestrians/ bicyclists
• Supporting future use of autonomous vehicles • Highway road system and bridges aging, safety issues.
Smart Buildings
• Reduction in carbon footprint/increase in energy efficiency
• Enhanced quality of building environment for occupants
• Enhanced safety to cope with natural disasters such as flood, fire, earthquake.
<< Figure 1: MEMS-Based Systems Solutions (MBSS) integrate critical elements of the Internet of Tings (IoT) including sensing, computing and communications to provide valuable measurements capability for Smart Building/Smart Transport monitoring and control applications. Courtesy: Roger Grace Associates.>>
Te major functions for the realisation of the Internet of Tings (IoT) are similar to what has been introduced in an earlier CMM article on “MEMS-Based Systems Solutions” (MBSS) [2]. Tese functions include a sensor front-end, low-power signal conditioning electronics (typically an ASIC including a micro controller with embedded algorithms), power supply/storage/management, and back-end, low-power wireless communications. All of this is enclosed in a
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