Sensor and Actuator Networks and related topics raise great expectations
within the community of researchers in Information and Communications
Technologies. The interest of many companies is growing, as their direct
involvement. Major achievements have been reached in terms of understanding,
theory, algorithms, protocols, performances and implementations.
But will this fervent activity actually lead to significant economic impact?
Where are the markets? Which will be the major drivers?
The Swiss National Competence Center in Mobile Information and Communications
Systems NCCR MICS, after five years of intense activity, is happy to invite
the key actors of tomorrow's communication society to a unique one-day event,
where hardware manufacturers, application developers, infrastructure managers,
service providers and leading edge scientists will have the opportunity to
meet each other, to compare different technical and commercial approaches,
to share visions, and maybe to draw some common lines into this new business
perspective.