II2302: Sensor Based Systems

     Sensor Based Systems is an engineering introduction to sensor enabled ICT systems. These technologies are important now, as you probably use them on a daily basis.  Do you have the latest smart phone or tablet computer?  Then you are probably carrying around sensors and a multitude of radios as you go though your day. These technologies will continue to increase in importance as time goes on.  For example they form a major set of component in the evolving ideas around the "Internet of Things", which when realized will use billions of sensors.  The topics that will be covered are technologies, algorithms and design factors that will be used in next generation communicating  systems that exploit sensors.  These are systems that are  used in personal communications, entertainment, security, sensor bots and other emerging fields.   Four broad technical areas are addressed:
  1. Sensing and sensor technologies, and their impact on embedded design.
  2. Role of context measurement in embedded systems and applications.
  3. Multi-sensor and aggregation device models and methods.
  4. Role of communication and connectivity to form embedded sensor systems.
     After completing this course, you will take away a knowledge of basic sensor technologies, and their role in information systems, especially future ones that exploit communication.  Types of sensors, how they are networked and communicate, methods of context measurement and use, and how the use of sensors will change the direction of future personal and embedded system design are among the material  covered.  The course is very applied, and in addition to learning about sensor systems you will build some as well.  If you have any questions about the course and how it works, let me know!

Mark Smith
msmith@kth.se