Wireless sensor networks can help solve some of the most pressing challenges facing the world today-including the need for conserving energy, lowering the cost of healthcare, and improving governemental response to natural disasters.

This vision of wireless sensors as global problem solvers was presented by Beth Wozniak, president of Honeywell Sensing and Control, during her June 10 keynote address at the 23rd annual Sensors Expo & Conference. The conference took place in Rosemont, IL.

Wozniak said the growing use of wireless sensors-and the increasing trend toward connecting multiple sensors on Internet-based networks-is creating an environment in which sensing technology is pervasive, and that “world of interconnected sensors,” will produce tremendous industrial, environmental, economic, and societal benefits.

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