Advanced Sensors for Real-Time Monitoring Applications

It is impossible to imagine the modern world without sensors or without real-time information about almost everything-from local temperature to material composition and health parameters. We sense measure and process data and act accordingly all the time. In fact real-time monitoring and information is key to a successful business an assistant in life-saving decisions that healthcare professionals make and a tool in research that could revolutionize the future. To ensure that sensors address the rapidly developing needs of various areas of our lives and activities scientists researchers manufacturers and end-users have established an efficient dialogue so that the newest technological achievements in all aspects of real-time sensing can be implemented for the benefit of the wider community. This book documents some of the results of such a dialogue and reports on advances in sensors and sensor systems for existing and emerging real-time monitoring applications.