3. Outlook for micro-sensors

3.1 Sensor network aspect

The aim is to take advantage of the small size and low cost of these new sensors to carry out not just a single measurement at a single point, but a series of measurements at different points, in order to obtain not only a measurement, but also an average and a spatial variation of this quantity, or a position associated with this measurement (geographical information). We can thus imagine applications such as monitoring structures, the environment, cargo tracking and surveillance, and medical applications. This implies thinking about...