Have a look at another in-depth article added to the site - Sensor-rich designsWritten by Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor of our sister site EDN, it looks at how designers are adding sensors and intelligent processing to fill the holes in their end-system capabilities, yielding designs that cost less to produce and operate.
He begins:
As the cost of microprocessors and sensors continues to drop, autonomous and semiautonomous systems can incorporate more intelligence and make more optimal decisions based on a better understanding of their internal condition and the immediate environment surrounding them.
Adding sensors and the intelligent processing to correlate the data from all those sensors to a design incurs a higher design-time cost and complexity, but design teams are increasingly accepting this cost because the trade-off can be a differentiated system that more efficiently delivers more capabilities for prices similar to those of previous designs.Read the full feaure - Sensor-rich designs
Picture - Figure 1. An automotive-engine-management system can correlate more than a dozen sensors to optimize engine operation (courtesy Infineon).
