Smart Sensors - A Technology Impact Assessment

Table Of Contents

1. Executive Summary

1. Introduction and Description

1. Introduction

2. Description

2. Scope and Methodology

1. Scope

2. Methodology

3. Key Findings

2. Automotive

1. Rollover Prevention

1. Europe: Skid Assistance

2. North America: Alerting Drivers

2. Air Conditioning

1. Asia: Improving AC Efficiency

2. North America/Europe: Keep it Clean

3. Europe: Keeping Drivers Comfortable

3. Homeland Security

1. Smart Buildings

1. North America: Spotting Structural Damage

2. North America: Better Emergency Communications

2. Homeland Security Radiation Detection

1. North America: Tagging Threats

2. North America: Tracking Objects of Concern

3. Europe: Mobile Detection

4. North America: Mighty Mite

4. Industrial

1. Manufacturing

1. North America: Picking Up Bad Vibrations

2. Asia: Optical Displacement Measurement

2. Processing

1. North America: Cutting Clean Room HVAC Costs

2. Europe: Wireless Factory Sensors

3. Welding

1. Maintaining Weld Quality

2. Asia: Underwater Welder

5. Aerospace and Defense

1. Aerospace

1. North America: Six Sensors in One

2. North America: Powering Themselves

2. Artillery

1. North America: Eliminating Friendly Fire

2. Asia: Low Maintenance Wind Sensor

3. Security

1. North America: Reducing False Alarms

2. North America: Amphibious Chemical Nose

6. Medical

1. Biomedical

1. North America/Asia: Providing Robots with a Human Touch

2. North America: Of Mice and Men

2. Biomonitoring

1. North America: Wireless Knee Sensing

2. Europe/Asia: Hearing Cries for Help

3. Europe: Monitoring the Patient

3. Research

1. Europe: Keeping Hospitals Germ-Free

2. Asia: Studying Biomolecules

3. Asia : Sensing Bitterness

7. Contacts; Patents

1. Contacts

1. Contacts

2. Patents

1. Patents

8. Frost & Sullivan 2004 Science and Technology Awards

1. Technology Innovation

1. Award Description

2. Award Recipient

2. Technology Leadership

1. Award Description

2. Award Recipient

9. Decision Support Database

1. Decision Support Database

1. Global Machine Tool Production

2. Global Car Production

3. Global Crude Steel Production

4. Global Military Aircraft