Smart Sensors: Why and when the origin was and why and where the future will be

C. Corsi

doi:10.1117/12.2030025

31 January 2014 Smart Sensors: Why and when the origin was and why and where the future will be

C. Corsi

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Proceedings Volume 8993, Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices XI; 899302 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030025
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Smart Sensors is a technique developed in the 70’s when the processing capabilities, based on readout integrated with signal processing, was still far from the complexity needed in advanced IR surveillance and warning systems, because of the enormous amount of noise/unwanted signals emitted by operating scenario especially in military applications. The Smart Sensors technology was kept restricted within a close military environment exploding in applications and performances in the 90’s years thanks to the impressive improvements in the integrated signal read-out and processing achieved by CCD-CMOS technologies in FPA. In fact the rapid advances of “very large scale integration” (VLSI) processor technology and mosaic EO detector array technology allowed to develop new generations of Smart Sensors with much improved signal processing by integrating microcomputers and other VLSI signal processors. inside the sensor structure achieving some basic functions of living eyes (dynamic stare, non-uniformity compensation, spatial and temporal filtering). New and future technologies (Nanotechnology, Bio-Organic Electronics, Bio-Computing) are lightning a new generation of Smart Sensors extending the Smartness from the Space-Time Domain to Spectroscopic Functional Multi-Domain Signal Processing. History and future forecasting of Smart Sensors will be reported.

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C. Corsi "Smart Sensors: Why and when the origin was and why and where the future will be", Proc. SPIE 8993, Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices XI, 899302 (31 January 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030025

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