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Sensor revolution! Blessing or curse?

Sensor revolution! Blessing or curse?

As well as our environment, we ourselves are being monitored by the tiny sensors that are infiltrating our daily lives, making our lives safer and more comfortable. They're in our cars, our watches, our phones, everywhere we go in our cities, and soon they'll be embedded in our glasses, our clothes and even our bodies. To what extent is this a blessing or a curse, where is the sensor revolution currently and where is it going? Can they fundamentally change the real estate market? The latest technological developments and real solutions that seem like they are from the realm of sci-fi are discussed in an accessible way by the invited experts on the latest episode of the Bosch Hungary Podcast.

Five million sensors a day
Twenty sensors in a single smartphone? Yes! In fact, an electric car can have hundreds of them! The global Bosch Group produces around five million of these tiny sensors every day, and around one and a half billion a year. This is just the present, but the market for semiconductors is predicted to triple by 2030, according to the latest Bosch Hungary Podcast, in which Dr. Andrea Edit Csikósné Pap, deputy dean of education at the Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Óbuda University and Norbert Mezősi, mechanical engineer and economist, head of Bosch Hungary's sensor design team, are interviewed by Edit Tóth, digital manager of the communications and government relations department at Robert Bosch Kft.

Smart glasses facing a market explosion
Sensors are getting smaller, faster and more and more of them are being used in our devices. After smart sensors in vehicles and earphones, the next market explosion could come from smart glasses, according to the Bosch expert. It is expected to become widely popular, for example, that our sensor-enabled glasses will follow our head movements while driving, showing us the right direction to take or alerting us about dangerous situations. But cooking will also become more enjoyable for cooking enthusiasts, as they will make it easier to portion ingredients, measure quantities and prepare food.

Sensors could revolutionize the real estate market
As well as increasing our personal comfort and safety, the new generation of sensors could also fundamentally transform the commercial and business world. After automating warehouses with thousands of sensors, smart shopping trolleys could arrive that read the barcodes of the products placed in them, speeding up the shopping process. And a recently introduced Bosch optical sensor for measuring air pollution, when integrated into everyday mobile devices, could even turn the real estate market on its head by providing local air pollution data at the touch of a button, says Bosch's expert in sensor design.

911: life-saving sensors
The latest sensors are also playing an active role in life-saving and disaster relief duties, as the 911 emergency hotline in the US uses data from air pressure sensors in the phones to tell dispatchers not only where a call for help is coming from, but also from which level. This knowledge can save lives not only in skyscrapers, but also in traditional housing estates.

Smart wound dressings
The healthcare sector is also building on the information provided by sensors in many areas. Smartwatches that measure blood pressure and heart rate are now commonplace, but perhaps few people have heard of the special sensors integrated into wound dressings that can monitor wound healing processes by sensing pH levels – something that is also discussed in the Bosch podcast.

Are sensors built into our bodies the future?
The future clearly lies in quantum sensors, which can provide a thousand times the current measurement accuracy, according to the Bosch podcast. In addition to gathering scientific insights this will allow them to track the functioning of our nervous system, for example, and even support the diagnosis and targeted treatment of serious diseases. The new type of quantum sensors could even act as implants in our bodies, given their tiny size. However, alongside the medical benefits, the dilemma arises – as it does for the experts in the Bosch podcast and presumably also for the listeners - whether this futuristic possibility should be greeted as a new horizon of development or rather with caution and distance.

Bosch Hungary Podcast: technology in plain language
The Bosch Hungary Podcast is a quarterly podcast on the most current issues in innovation and R&D, with expert guests providing accessible answers to the most pressing questions about the technology of the future. Those who want to learn more about the future of sensors and their surprising applications, or to get an idea of where sensor technology expertise can be learned and applied in Hungary, can listen to the answers and even watch the Bosch Hungary Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Simplecast.

Tags: Bosch, Bosch group, podcast, sensor, quantum sensor, microelectronics, smart, IoT, innovation

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