Sensors play a critical role as they provide contextual data to the emerging IoT and Big Data application. The challenges remain in term of cost, reliability, accuracy and standardisation. Collaboration of all stakeholders is the key to ensure the sensors technology can meet and overcome the issues facing the users.

1. Sensor Technology for Smart Nation
and Industry 4.0
20 May 2016
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore
Colin Koh
LKH Precicon Pte Ltd
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2. Sensor and Sensor Network
• Sensor: Device that observes and measures a physical
property of a natural phenomenon or man-made
process and converts that measurement into a signal.
(ISO/IEC 29182-2)
• Sensor Network: System of spatially distributed sensor
nodes interacting with each other and, depending on
application, possibly with other infrastructure in order
to acquire, process, transfer, and provide information
extracted from its environment with primary function
of information gathering and possible control
capability. (ISO/IEC 29182-2)

3. Application of Sensors
Source: Harbor Research

4. The Trillion Sensor Prediction
• The sensor development cycle has shrunk from 27 years down to 10
years, from conception to commercialization. And with professional
3-D printers, like IBM's capable of 10-nanometer resolution, that 10
years could shrink to months.
• Likewise cars have about 200 sensors, smart homes have about
100, smartphones have about 15. And with the Internet of Things
(IoT) on the rise, we can expect up to 130 new sensors per person
per year, also contributing to the trillion sensor prediction.
• by 2025 60-to-90 percent of the profits in the global economy will come
from data analytic drawing on those trillion sensors.
(Source: EETimes.com)

5. The European Union's Wize Mirror is under development by 11 EU research centers using
embedded sensors in mirror plus five hyper-spectral cameras, gas sensors and 3D scanners
to extract heart rate, hemoglobin, cholesterol, sugar level, weight gain/loss, O2,
stress/anxiety and breath gases, resulting in a daily health score just by using your mirror to
groom each morning.
(Source: E.U.)

6. Smart Nation
Definition:
"A smart sustainable city (nation)
is an innovative city (nation) that
uses information and
communication technologies
(ICTs) and other means to
improve quality of life, efficiency
of urban operation and services,
and competitiveness, while
ensuring that it meets the needs
of present and future generations
with respect to economic, social
and environmental aspects."
(Machina Research)

7. Urban Density Aging Population Healthcare Mobility Energy Sustainability

8. http://www.tce.co.in/smart-cities.php

9. Industry 4.0: The Fourth Industry Revolution
Definition:
is a collective term
embracing a number
of contemporary
automation, data
exchange and
manufacturing
technologies. It had
been defined as 'a
collective term for
technologies and
concepts of value
chain organization'
which draws together
Cyber-Physical
Systems, the Internet
of Things and the
Internet of Services.
Industry 4.0 facilitates the vision and execution of a
"Smart Factory".
Within the modular structured Smart Factories of Industry
4.0, cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes,
create a virtual copy of the physical world and make
decentralized decisions.
Over the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems
communicate and cooperate with each other and with
humans in real time, and via the Internet of Services, both
internal and cross-organizational services are offered and
utilized by participants of the value chain Source: Wikipedia

10. Internet of Things - Standardisation
Singapore Smart Nation:
Technical Reference TR38
Technical Reference TR 40

20. Thank You