Partnering with Florida’s Osceola County and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council, the University of Central Florida (UCF) plans to establish a state-of-the-art research and incubation facility to focus on the next generation of universal smart sensors. While other universities have had smart sensor research activities (including my alma mater Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan), the goal of the Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center is to create the world’s first industry-led smart sensor consortium.
UCF researchers have already developed several chemical sensors. The sensors address applications from detecting hydrogen and specific chemicals in the air to reading blood oxygen levels. Researchers are also creating materials to enable sensor integration into ever-smaller computer chips.
For more information about the UCF smart sensors research partnership, click here.
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