Vision for
Wireless Sensor Networks Worldwide
A world where wireless sensor networks
are employed to improve our quality of life, through
the provision of accurate, real-time information about
things that really matter to people, such as personal
health, environmental (air/water) quality, tracking of
food quality and bio/chemical threat detection, and to
enterprises, such as real-time business information,
operational efficiency, and value growth.
A world where explosive growth in the use of sensors
in the coming decades will lead to the pervasive
omnipresence of wireless sensors, in our cars,
streets, homes, offices, factories, hospitals, retail
premises and on our person.
A world where the common thread in all predictions,
namely that there will be billions of sensor
applications, most of the sensors being wireless and
many sensor nodes being very small, is driven by a
technology revolution that provides a great
opportunity for Irish industry.
Who
are we?
A network of committed organisations drawn from
Industry (indigenous SMEs and multi-nationals,
comprising both technology providers and users),
university research centres and government agencies,
who share a common vision of the importance of
wireless sensor networks in our future economy and
shaping our future society, and are united in a common
desire to promote wireless sensor network research,
development, and successful commercialisation.
Why have we come
together?
We communally believe from our various perspectives
that WSNs will have a profound impact on our lives in
the not-too-distant future; development and delivery
of functional technologies in this area will generate
tremendous business opportunities for early leaders,
both in terms of the technology itself, and in terms
of its impact right across the broad sweep of modern
industry sectors and services.
We seek to stimulate the development of a new growth
sector for Ireland through the convergence of
technologies and capabilities and the influencing of
strategic national investment in order to provide
revolutionary solutions to European and global
markets.
We seek to institute support mechanisms and linkages
to improve and expedite the transfer of technology
from academia to market deployment. The group has come
together to drive the commercial exploitation of WSN
technology in Ireland by leveraging research,
marketing and education.
We seek to identify and develop business opportunities
for our organisations.
We are committed to pursuing world-class research and
developing innovative commercial products in the
Wireless Sensor arena. Our aims are to position
Ireland as a world leader through the development of
the core competencies required for next generation
wireless sensors, and to exploit these core
competencies through focused research projects and
swift technology transfer to the Irish industrial
base.
We seek to pool our experiences from a variety of
backgrounds, e.g. R&D activity in Europe on
intelligent (automotive) sensors, ...
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