Objective
Today's technical systems are becoming more and more complex. While in former times, individual entities might often have sufficed to efficiently control such a system, the growing system complexity necessitates the cooperation of individual entities. This is particularly true for embedded systems.
Embedded systems are characterized by their very need to interact with the environment. This interaction can take place in the form of sensing as well as actuation. Because of system complexity, isolated entities can no longer perform this interaction efficiently or reach the required control objectives. Hence, even in the interaction with, exploration of and control of the environment, cooperation between individual entities becomes a necessity, jointly controlling and influencing the physical processes in large-scale systems.
Wireless sensor networks are one typical example of such cooperation. Such networks consist of objects, individually capable of simple sensing, actuation, communication, and computation, but only by cooperation the full capabilities of such networks is reached. More generally, these networks can cooperate themselves with other individual, intelligent objects, other networks, other controllers, or even users via proper interfaces. While these "cooperating objects" represent a potentially disruptive technology, the concrete realization of this vision is still unclear. This clarification is the essential goal of the coordination action proposed here.
We intend to explore the actual needs of manufacturers and appliers of this technology as well as the ensuing, most challenging research issues; to identify road blockers for progress; to present a roadmap how these road blockers can be removed; and to foster teaching and education to form a basis for future research.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors smart sensors
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Coordinator
10623 BERLIN
Germany
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