Sensors and transducers fuse with AI and fog computing

摘要

As the interface between the physical and digital worlds, sensors and transducers have moved from a technological backwater to the forefront of automotive safety, security, healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI) enablement. As such, they have undergone revolutionary changes in terms of fundamental physical and electrical capabilities such as size, power consumption, and sensitivity, while at the same time triggering new thinking in sensor integration, ranging from sensor fusion to AI-based generation of sensor processing algorithms applied in a fog-computing-like architecture.