VIRTUAL MSEC 2020

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Sensory motion tracking enabled by smart sensors is at the forefront of our fourth industrial age, pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and machine learning further than we could have imagined. Already widely used in animation productions, elite athletes now use motion sensors to enhance their performance and sports enthusiasts to improve their tennis serve or golf swing. In healthcare, motion tracking is helping people to monitor their heart rates, sleep patterns and fitness levels. Motion tracking technology is opening the possibilities for entrepreneurs and innovators to transform their own industries. Our physical, biological and technological worlds are merging like never before, and the potential of sensory motion capture is only restricted by the extent of our imagination.

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Individualized digital health monitors benefit wearers with chronic illness or those at risk of acute infectious diseases with rapid onsets. As technology leaders are making vital sign sensors convenient and affordable for mobile and fitness applications, US Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services and other healthcare policy makers, have adopted reimbursement policies to encourage remote patient monitoring practices. The global pandemic has only further accelerated these initiatives.

Even with these economic tailwinds, addressing novel use cases can face many hurdles. Conventional medical diagnoses rely, in part, on a few test results taken under sterile clinical settings. Getting ground truth on subjects in natural settings, finding relevant longitudinal clinical studies, collecting large datasets congruent with actual form factors and workflows, and correlating all that back to clinical diagnoses often require innovative solutions.

This presentation illustrates this using two case studies of individualized, continuous health monitoring solutions. It provides an overview of their use cases and hurdles to provide a discussion on how technical communities could help to accelerate more innovation.

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2020 has been a challenging year in many aspects and the consequences of the pandemic are expected to further impact the upcoming years, possibly even decade. Also the MEMS industry is experiencing multiple challenges: Firstly, development costs for new generations of MEMS sensors are increasing and hence wider, diverse markets are required to compensate the growing development expenses and to lower the risks. Secondly, a sole focus on hardware is not sufficient anymore. End-device manufacturers more and more frequently want to differentiate themselves by new features and functionalities which have to be enabled by software to remain cost-efficient. Such software competence was traditionally not available in most hardware-focused companies, creating a need to develop new competencies in our organizations. Finally, customers increasingly demand complete solutions instead of single components. Plug-and-play solutions such as development boards and reference designs created with partners are increasingly expected by our customers and partners. All along, digital tools and services need to be offered to reach a growing, increasingly diverse target group to offer a positive user experience.

In his talk, Jens Fabrowsky, Executive Vice President Automotive Electronics at Bosch, will explore the opportunities and challenges of the MEMS industry in the upcoming ten years and provide an outlook on possible solutions based on specific examples. Jens will also give a call to action for the industry on how it can embrace and contribute to the changes.

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