Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Stefan G. Hild (Bio)

Seminar Title: Sensor Networks: Emerging Solutions for the Enterprise

Ubiquitous computing research in IBM has recently embraced the new
area of sensor & actuators research, an area which leverages the recent emergence of "smart" and "wireless" sensors that combine the actual sensing of physical properties with embedded processing
capabilities, thus allowing local processing, filtering, and communications of data or alerts across IT network infrastructure, at much reduced infrastructure cost. As a result, sensing technology is broadly applied and allows enterprises to monitor a wide variety of operational parameters in real-time, and tying these readings into back-end systems that are then able to adapt their behaviors and augment the enterprises' business operations in real time to changes in the operational state of the enterprise.

In my talk I will review some of the key research activities in IBM
Research in this area, highlighting specifically the impact of technologies such as RFID, smart sensors, and UWB location detection on business processes, production efficiency, and asset optimization.

The talk will also touch upon the security challenges posted both to the individual enterprise as well as the economy as a whole.

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