Sensors and Wearables

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The goal of this course is to introduce the concepts of sensors and wearables, their main features and their use in the industry. The course also includes different use cases focused on business successful stories. Finally, the course tries to give a general view about the future of sensors in the smart factories.

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UPCT

UPCT

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UPCT is a public University of Higher Education, located in Cartagena (Spain). UPCT offers more than 40 Bsc. and Msc. degrees. Most of its degrees are focused on technical and engineering studies: Civil, Industrial, Electronics, Naval, Telecommunications, Telematics, Agronomics, etc.

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This course is part of Specialization Digital and Physical World Hybridising

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Knowledge

• Understand what sensors and wearables are and how they work.
• Know about the context of sensors and wearables in the industry and their main characteristics.
• Acquire knowledge about different types of those sensors and wearables widely used in the industry.
• Know about different use cases of sensors and wearables, mainly focused on industrial scenarios.
• Know about real business success stories, how sensors and wearables have improved an industrial facility on industrial process.
• Know the future of sensors and wearables in industry.


Skills

• Define what sensors and wearables are.
• Enumerate the main characteristics of sensors and wearables.
• Identify the operation modes of sensors and wearables and their sues in different industrial scenarios.
• Distinguish among different types of sensors and wearables, according their characteristics, operation mode or use.
• Recognize use cases of sensors and wearables.
• Propose uses of sensors and wearables in different industrial sectors.
• Identify differences between current and future sensors and wearables.


Competences

• Understand the use of sensors and wearables in different industrial scenarios.
• Recognize main characteristics of sensors and wearables.
• Analyze and take decisions about the better sensor or wearable to use for a specific purpose, facility, operation mode, etc.
• Analyze an industrial scenario in order to identify if the use of sensors and/or wearables could improve the performance of the industrial activity.
• Get a sensor or wearable and suggest use cases of it.
• Take decisions about the most suitable sensor/wearable for a specific industrial need.
• Analyze the future of sensors and wearables and their use cases.

Course Content

  • 1# Introduction
    • 1.1 Sensors. What are they? How are they classified?
  • 2# Main Characteristics
    • 2.1 Intelligent sensors for Industry 4.0
  • 3# Types
    • 3.1 Types of intelligent sensors
    • 3.2 Wearables
    • 3.3 Wearables: augmented reality glasses and Smart watches
  • 4# Use Cases and Business Success stories
    • 4.1 Use cases of intelligent sensors and wearables in Industry 4.0
  • 5# Future of Sensors and Wearables in Industry
    • 5.1 Challenges of intelligent sensors and wearables for Industry 4.0 (I)
    • 5.2 Challenges of intelligent sensors and wearables for Industry 4.0 (II)

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