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The increasingly dynamic nature of sensor research and innovation, coupled with the breadth and depth of interest and activity, is generating a huge global output of papers and other scientific literature. This makes it progressively more difficult to identify key barriers to advancement, major unrealized opportunities, and challenges the sensor community is not addressing. Mapping this complex intellectual landscape to identify these opportunities and challenges is a daunting but vitally important task, as it can identify dead-end directions as well as fundamental challenges with game-changing potential.
This type of strategic “Prospective” forum is generally missing in the literature, the overwhelming focus being on the “now” (research articles) and “retrospective” review articles. To address this gap, Frontiers in Sensors has assembled a group of globally acknowledged leaders in sensor research and innovation, researchers with decades of experience and contributions to their field that have been of the highest quality throughout their careers. We have invited these ‘thought leaders’ to speculate on key challenges and unrealized opportunities that require a fundamental advance in the associated science, which, if achieved, could profoundly improve the world we live in. We also include a number of young, emerging leaders in sensor research to complement the more established contributors. In this way, we aim to build a resource of unique value to the researchers and innovators, a resource that will grow and develop and will encourage debate in this fascinating arena of human endeavor.
The increasingly dynamic nature of sensor research and innovation, coupled with the breadth and depth of interest and activity, is generating a huge global output of papers and other scientific literature. This makes it progressively more difficult to identify key barriers to advancement, major unrealized opportunities, and challenges the sensor community is not addressing. Mapping this complex intellectual landscape to identify these opportunities and challenges is a daunting but vitally important task, as it can identify dead-end directions as well as fundamental challenges with game-changing potential.
This type of strategic “Prospective” forum is generally missing in the literature, the overwhelming focus being on the “now” (research articles) and “retrospective” review articles. To address this gap, Frontiers in Sensors has assembled a group of globally acknowledged leaders in sensor research and innovation, researchers with decades of experience and contributions to their field that have been of the highest quality throughout their careers. We have invited these ‘thought leaders’ to speculate on key challenges and unrealized opportunities that require a fundamental advance in the associated science, which, if achieved, could profoundly improve the world we live in. We also include a number of young, emerging leaders in sensor research to complement the more established contributors. In this way, we aim to build a resource of unique value to the researchers and innovators, a resource that will grow and develop and will encourage debate in this fascinating arena of human endeavor.
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