AIC Energy and Materials Workshop 30th June 2006
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In recent years, there have been tremendous advances in the development of low power platforms that integrate signal acquisition from sensing devices with localised signal conditioning, storage, and wireless communications via wireless communications in a compact, low power platform. These platforms, or ‘motes’, are the basic building blocks of wireless sensor networks. However, the deployment of large numbers of wireless sensor networks remains an elusive objective, with relatively few convincing demonstrator deployments of over 100 motes. Critical issues inhibiting progress are:
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The need to provide sufficient energy to enable large numbers of motes to continue functioning autonomously for years, as the servicing of sensor networks rapidly becomes impractical as the numbers involved as scaled up.
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The need for materials that provide more effect routes to harvest energy from the environment, and materials that are much more energy efficient in performing critical tasks such as sensing, actuating and communicating.
In this one-day workshop, these issues will be examined and discussed by an invited panel of international speakers drawn from industry and academia.
Workshop attendees will also be registered to hear a plenary lecture by Nobel Laureate Prof. Alan MacDiarmid, University of Pennsylvania, USA, entitled ‘New materials for energy harvesting and storage’. Professor MacDiarmid received his Nobel prize for pioneering work in conducting polymers. His recent work on materials for energy harvesting will be critical for the development of futuristic motes capable of functioning completely autonomously for indefinite periods of time.
This is a rare opportunity to hear Prof. MacDiarmid speak and is not to be missed!
For further information please contact:
Maria Johnston
Development Manager
Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC)
DCU, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
T: 00 353 1 700 7938
F: 00 353 1 700 7995
Email: maria.johnston@dcu.ie
http://www.adaptiveinformation.ie
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