Fragrance Sensing for a Fragmented Market
ABSTRACT
The sense/sensor analogies are easy: eye is to camera as ear is to microphone as nose is to [blank]. Maybe the last one isn’t so easy. Cameras and microphones are everywhere in our devices and currently feeding the data hungry internet. But what about smell? Smell is a human being’s passive safety sense and yet its been most difficult to realize in sensor form. I will explore the challenges of creating an “electronic nose” and the potential applications it could unlock. I will discuss the success of other sensors and how they burden newcomers. And I will explore what it might take for environmental sensing to break through to the big time – will machine learning be enough?
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Peter G. Hartwell is VP of Engineering at TDK US Corporation driving global technology and strategy. Peter came to TDK through its acquisition of Invensense where he was the CTO. Peter has over 30 years experience commercializing silicon MEMS systems, working on sensors, actuators, and software at all levels. Prior to InvenSense, Peter was Architect of Sensing Hardware at Apple and was a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Peter has over 40 worldwide patents on MEMS devices and sensor applications. Peter has a B.S. in Materials Science from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.