Event summary:
The EGU General Assembly 2010 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcome you in Vienna!
"In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroencephalographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies--even our dreams." (Neil Gross: Interview with Terry Murray in Business Week, August 1999)
Ten years later, the low-cost miniaturized sensors and wireless sensor nodes are on a way to become truly ubiquitous, but the vision of a fully fledged electronic skin is still a remote dream. The aim of this session is to discuss the factors that have so-far prevented the establishment of the "electronic skin", analyze the recent developments, and propose the agenda for achieving the Murray's vision in a technologically feasible, economically sane and societally acceptable manner.
We encourage the submission of both conceptual and application oriented contributions for the following topics (but are not limited to):
Business Models: how can we achieve the sustainability of the "electronic skin" infrastructure?
Cost & performance: which main cost factors exist; how do they scale (e.g. with network size, number of nodes, time, type and quality of observations), and what can be done to optimize the total cost of ownership?
