Intelligent sensors: the way forward to decentralised intelligence and control
Fikret Yalçınkaya · 1998
This paper addresses different definitions of intelligent sensors, why they are needed and various methods of producing them. These include microcomputer or microprocessor based systems having capability of self-validation/testing and calibration. It also addresses the technologies (VLSI, silicon bulk- or surface-micromachining, multisensor-arrays, bio-materials and specific chemicals based systems) and embedded techniques (neural networks, expert systems and fuzzy logic) involved for creating intelligence in a sensor system. Finally, it gives brief information about home automation systems using intelligent sensors and intelligent fault-detecting systems.