AUTOREADER--COMPUTER AIDED MAMMOGRAM INTERPRETATION

Not Available The idea of the Smart Sensor is the integration of a processing device with some type of raw sensor. The addition of this processing device to a common sensor has opened up endless new possibilities. Since the main objective of a sensor is to gather information about its environment and communicate this data to a target system, the addition of a processing unit to a sensor makes it possible to standardize and network multiple sensors of any type. Because this standardization and networking is so important, it has become the main focus of Smart Sensors superseding obvious on-sensor tasks such as data processing. The concept of Smart Sensors has been around for quite some time, but without a common standard various industries have independently developed their own systems. The IEEE and The National Institute of Standards have under taken the task of defining a standard of Smart Sensor Communications. In an effort to expand and incorporate new technology and ideology into current instrumentation systems this proposed effort will investigate the possible approaches to developing smart sensors that comply with the new emerging standards and are also backwards compatible with currently used systems.