13. Developments and trends

Smart sensors

The ever-increasing implementation of industrial networks goes hand in hand with the development of "intelligent sensors" (and now intelligent systems) for which interoperability and maintainability are of the utmost importance.

Intelligent sensors mainly involve integrating an internal computing unit (microprocessor, microcontroller, ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit), a signal conditioning system (programmable or controlled) and a communication interface into the sensor body... More generally, the concept of an intelligent sensor can be broken down as follows (according to the book "Capteurs intelligents et méthodologie d "évaluation"