Trillion Sensors Roadmap outline set to debut
Only a roadmap outline is scheduled for disclosure in December but it will be accompanied with a plan for completion of the roadmap in 2016, the trade association said. Before the first TSensors Summit in November 2013, founder Janusz Bryzek said the plan was to publish the roadmap as a book in 2014 but this didn’t happen.
The purpose of the roadmap is to highlight ultra-high volume applications for sensors in 2025 and to help develop sensor platforms to meet them and thereby contribute to an acceleration towards a state of "abundance" where the world has neither hunger nor pollution and medical care and clean energy can be provided for all.
The TSensors program was established by Bryzek as a response to the book Abundance authored by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. This book looks at exponentially advancing technologies and their markets and argues that the judicious use of technology will make it possible to meet the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet.
The core of TSensors Roadmap will leverage content from presentations given at TSensors Summits organized between 2013 and 2015 at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC San Diego, Munich, twice in Tokyo and Orlando. During the various presentations over the previous two years numerous visions have emerged for a TSensors market, with the largest forecasting 100 trillion sensors by 2030 and for vast amounts of data to be generated by them – BrontoBytes or 1027 bytes.
While such volumes of data could create unprecedented business opportunities for sensors, analytics and services, some observers argue that an energy supply crunch will hit the planet before such figures can be delivered (see Will IoT make taxing the Internet inevitable?).
TSensors Summits: www.tsensorssummit.org/
MEMS and Sensors Industry Group: www.memsindustrygroup.org
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