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How to do it?
Uncertainty management
Learning ability
Network + database
Adaptation ability
Fault detection mechanism
Sensor
A device that receives and responds to a stimulus [Fdn97]
Stimulus: mechanical, thermal, magnetic, electric, optical,
chemical…
Response: an electrical signal (in most cases)
Intelligence
The ability to combine
A prior knowledge (available before experience) and
Adaptive learning (from experience)
A "smart sensor" is a transducer (or actuator) that provides
functions beyond what is necessary to generate a correct
representation of a sensed or controlled quantity (e.g.,
temperature, pressure, strain, flow, pH, etc.). The "smart sensor"
functionality will typically simplify the integration of the transducer
into applications in a networked environment. For example, a
measurement from a temperature transducer requires the network
controller to make a voltage-to-temperature conversion to
represent the data in either degrees fahrenheit or degrees celcius.
An intelligent temperature transducer (smart sensor) has a built-in
transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS) to make the measurement
conversion and provide the data in units of temperature to the
network controller. To do this, the smart sensor module also
contains the digital interface to provide a communication channel
between the network control and the smart sensor.
There are two main components of a functional smart sensor:
1) a transducer interface module (TIM) and
2) a network capable application processor (NCAP)
Aerospace applications require a range of
chemical sensing technologies to monitor
conditions in both space vehicles and in
aircraft operations.
Industrial development in harsh
environments or applications where it may
not be safe or feasible for people to work
efficiently - in some underground mining
operations, for example.
Application of intelligent imaging
sensors to image guided and intensity
modulated radiotherapy
Intelligent Sensors
Patented dual-sensor
system monitors both
UV output and water
quality.