Sensor Technology
In Brief
- Today, sensors are an integral part of our livesa car, for example, contains around 100 of them. They also perform key functions in industrial production, environmental and building systems and medicine. In 2008, the world market for civilian sensor systems will amount to about $50 billionsome $18 billion more than in 1998
- Future trends: Sensors are becoming smaller, cheaper and more powerful. They are being integrated into networks and gaining intelligence to act on their own and pre-process measured data ( more)
- Tiny wireless micro-electro-mechanical systems sensors could some day be used in building technology to measure air temperature or CO2 content ( more)
- Researchers have developed the first sensors that can independently communicate with one another and organize themselves into a network. Siemens has developed a sensor network that guides firefighters to the source of the fire in burning buildings (more)
- Biosensors can help detect diseases quickly. Although the DNA and protein diagnostic system quicklab from Siemens is only the size of a credit card, it can supply test results completely automatically in about an hour (more)
- Optical sensors are increasingly using 3D images, as recognition algorithms are more effective in 3D than in 2D. Siemens has developed sensors that can spot defects measuring only a few nanometers. Hidden defects can be discovered by making a virtual 3D flight through the component (more)
- Siemens develops gas sensors for industrial facilities and building technology systems and for detecting leaks in gas pipelines. In the future, they will be able to determine the amount of alcohol or nitrogen oxides in a persons breath. The latter can warn of an impending asthma attack. The unit will be small enough to fit into a cell phone ( more)
PEOPLE
Optical sensors:
Dr. Günter Doemens, CT PS 9
guenter.doemens@siemens.com
Ernst Lüthe, A&D
ernst.luethe@siemens.com
Dr. Peter Mengel, CT PS 9
peter.mengel@siemens.com
Dr. Anton Schick, L&A
anton.schick@siemens.com
Michael Staudt, A&D
michael.staudt@siemens.com
Jürgen Stephan, CT PS 9
juergen.stephan@siemens.com
Gas sensors:
Dr. Maximilian Fleischer, CT PS 8
maximilian.fleischer@siemens.com
Stefan Lundqvist,Siemens Laser Analytics
stefan.lundqvist@siemens.com
MEMS sensors:
Dr. Osman Ahmed, SBT, USA
osman.ahmed@siemens.com
Biosensors:
Dr. Walter Gumbrecht, CT PS 6
walter.gumbrecht@siemens.com
Dr. Reinhard Gabl, CT MM 2
reinhard.gabl@siemens.com
Sensor networks:
Dr. Rudolf Sollacher, CT IC 4
rudolf.sollacher@siemens.com
Turbine sensors:
Dr. Hans-Gerd Brummel, PG USA
hans-gerd.brummel@siemens.com
Olaf König, PG
olaf.koenig@siemens.com
Automobile sensors:
Gérard Troy, Siemens VDO
gerard.troy@siemens.com
Dieter Wagner, Siemens VDO
dieterwagner@siemens.com
Somatom, ultra-fast ceramics:
Frank Berger, Med
frank.berger@siemens.com
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Boser
boser@eecs.berkeley.edu
Prof. Dr. Anton Heuberger
heuberger@isit.fhg.de
Ray Sangster
pr@eleksen.com
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schiller
schiller@inf.fu-berlin.de
Dr. Udo Weimar
upw@ipc.uni-tuebingen.de
LINKS
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center:
www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu
Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology:
www.isit.fhg.de
Forum for MEMS sensors:
www.memsnet.org
