Princeton engineers bring together expertise in the environment, infrastructure, climate, data science, sensors, privacy, security, public policy, and many other fields to make cities, towns and suburbs resilient and enjoyable places for people to flourish sustainably.
Here we describe the Open Source Building Science Sensors (OSBSS) project, which we created to design and develop a suite of inexpensive, open source devices based on the Arduino platform for measuring and recording long-term indoor environmental and building operational data.
This will give the science sensors built into the platform at least four days, perhaps eight, to gather their data before dying.
But it's only in recent years that our science, sensors and data processing are able to directly interface into our minds and bodies.
With the advance of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, handheld science sensors) have been absorbed into the fabric of our daily lives rapidly (Merchant 2012).
The irony is that as good as some of these nascent startups are in material science, sensors, robotics, medical devices, life sciences, etc., more and more frequently VCs whose firms would have looked at these deals or invested in these sectors, are now only interested in whether it runs on a smart phone or tablet.
In this chapter, the evolution in science and sensor requirements, the lessons learned from specific heritage sensors, sensor calibration, and characterization considerations, and some fundamentals of satellite sensor engineering are reviewed.
Polymers that exhibit an affinity to metal ions are important for separation science and sensor applications.
The innovations could come from traditional agricultural R&D better drip irrigation, a new plant variety, or a technique to improve food safety, for example—or they could originate from another discipline, such as computer science or sensor engineering.
