Smart Interfaces for Sensors
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چکیده
It seems that virtually every technical paper which describes a new technology to "make the world a better place", includes the term "smart" to refer to some aspect of this new technology. The technical literature is filled with smart capacitors, smart resistors, smart rectifiers, smart op-amps, smart memory, smart circuits, smart cards, smart systems, smart networks, smart partners, smart opinions, smart business, smart anything, smart everything and, yes, smart sensors. At the risk of speaking heresy, it seems that "smart" sensors may not always be a desirable goal. One of the issues with "smart sensors" is that, in some cases, it may not make economic sense to design, fabricate, and field smart sensors. Simply put, it may not always be smart to integrate "smart" enabling electronics to sensor components. Maybe what we really need are "smart" interfaces.
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