Will Sensor Donation help?
In 1997, “The future of technology will be an era of sensors.” said Paul Saffo, one of the technology forecaster. His expression has turned in to reality today!
Sensor is a device capable of sensing or identifying and measuring a physical quantity. It may be temperature, weight, air pressure, and viscosity of a liquid, intensity of light, flow of current, resistance or the quantity of fuel or gas. The sensors not only measure these quantities and detect a slight change but also convey the same to the controller, who implements steps to be carried for a corrective action. Switching of a geyser or switching on an AC, with rise in temperature is the most common example.
Sensors can be categorized as biological, chemical, electrical, thermoelectric, electromagnetic, electrochemical, analog, digital, active, and radioactive... and the list is unending. We are surrounded by uncountable sensors.
In the future, innumerable variety of sensors will be connected to the computers and they may control weather (forecasting a cyclone), human health (predicting the rise in blood pressure) etc. Some RADAR sensors, Passive Infra Red Sensors (PIR), Infra red sensors, Laser sensors sense the motion of passengers or visitors near the entrance of many hotels, offices and malls, and automatically open the doors for them. But are sensors really a new technology to us?
Our body has sense organs. The nose senses the aroma, conveys the signal to the brain (Controller) who suggests cover the nose in case of bad smell, (a corrective action). The rod shaped sensors in the eyes sense the intensity of light while the cone shaped sensors, sense colors. The ears sense the sound waves and we hear the sound. The skin senses atmospheric temperature and perspires accordingly. The tongue senses the taste of the food and develops like and dislike for it. Research is being carried out to sense the amount of sweat perspired in certain specific conditions, intensity of the pain in certain ailments, parameters causing restlessness, the degree of tiredness, the power of emotions etc.
The day is not far for the medical technology to extract the sensing mechanism from the human body and implant it to those who lack them. We will soon have a deaf implanted with sensory cells donated by a healthy individual, a blind who is empowered with vision with the replacement of rod shaped cells. The world is eager to welcome the new era of sensor donations!
GM HR
6 年Thanks for sharing
GM HR
6 年I like the idea. And this will really help
Innovator, Entrepreneur, and Product Designer, Smart Homes, Gesture Controlled Applications, EV Chargers, IoT based Solutions,
6 年Very noble concept! A few queries; is sensor donation applicable for donating biological sensors (like ear, eyes, touch, taste, vision) only? So is it like organ donation? More importantly are their equivalent artificial sensors available that can be built in laboratories? In that case sensor donation means you are sponsoring some sensor! I believe the later type of sensor donation makes more sense and would be most effective to the people who have lost some of their sensors.