After an extended incubation period, wireless sensing networks are experiencing a surge of market growth.   A market opportunity for more than 100 million sensor nodes is projected for 2019.  Potential applications come from areas as diverse as infrastructure monitoring for bridges, lighting and HVAC control in buildings, patient monitoring, elderly care, seismic sensors, industrial process control, and many others.  Their feasibility will be strongly influenced by the availability of miniaturized sensor nodes with suitable form factors that can be operated without maintenance for extended periods.  

Our work addresses key bottlenecks in sensor network implementation.   The concept sketches shown here illustrate the effect that our integration technology will have on wireless sensor nodes in the future. Our mesoscale system infrastructure can be used with a wide range of miniature sensing components