Chapter 2
Smart Sensing Devices
New smart devices, either in the form of sensing, actuating or combined, represent one of very basic core processes of understanding, manipulating and interacting with the environment, both natural and artificial. They are becoming indispensable components of our modern life, industries and developing intelligent systems. A brief description of these devices shows their tendency, capability and potential when deploying their significant roles for new applications to change our lifestyle once again in the near future.
2.1 Specification and Classification
Considering their long sporadic historical development spreading over a wide range of evolving technologies, sensing devices have been accumulating vast volumes of information, knowledge and data, which one can easily locate in both academia and industries. We therefore see that it is meaningless to cover classic and categorised device details in this volume but instead, we shed light on new and upcoming smart and more intelligent sensing devices and their potential capabilities to construct superior applications using a better understanding of upcoming core technologies through new integration-based grouping structure and associated specification-based classification. That is, in order to make it easy to understand the new approach we provide a device-based grouping using our definition of the three natural generations of TST, SSD and DSS, discussed in Chapter 1, Figure 1.1. We expect this approach ...
