July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
683 pages
27h 7m
English
One of the characteristics of an intelligent sensor system is its ability to be self-aware of its performance based on physical models, analysis of raw sensor data, and data fusion with other sensor information. While this capability may sound very futuristic, all of the required technologies are currently available. However, very few, if any, sensor systems at the end of the twentieth century exploit a minimal level of sentient processing. By the end of the twenty-first century, it is very likely that all sensors will have the capability of self-awareness, or at least situational awareness. According to most dictionaries, the definition of “sentient” is “having the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, ...
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