EU FP6 Projects on Memory Technologies
Things that think and the communication of people with such things in his environment critialy depend on contactless communication technologies. RF communication devices and protocols have been developed in the past and exist today, yet in thir present form they cannot and will never be used on a large scale to allow communication with everyday objects.
The fundamental reason for this is the cost of the silicon technology employed to realize it. Even in its most optimistic projection, this cost remains at least one order of magnitude higher than the cost of a technology that has been proven to be truly ubiquitously applicable, such as a barcode. Therefore, a new generation of devices is required to enable ambient intelligene at the right cost point in order to be truly applicable everywhere and anywhere.
Abstract
The objective of the European researh project PolyApply-The Application of PolymerElectronics to Ambient Intelligence is to lay the foundations of a scalable and ubiquitously applicable communication technology. The objective of the European research project PolyApply- The Application of Polymer Electronics to Ambient intelligence is to lay the foundations of a scalable and ubiquitously applicable communication technology.
Coordinator: STMICROELECTRONIS S.R.L., Italy |
Partners:PLATIC LOGIC LIMITED, UK; INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELETRONICA CENTRUM VZW, Belgium; CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE, Czech Republic; COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE, France; MOTOROLA GMBH, Germany; TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany; TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITA, Germany; PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V., Netherlands; JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH, Austria; VDI/VDE INNOVATION+TECHNIK GMBH, Germany; EM MICCROELECTRONIC-MARIN S.A., Switzerland; ZEILER AG, Switzerland; POLYIC GMBH&CO.KG, Germany; MERCK CHEMICALS LTD, UK; HUECK FOLIEN GMBH, Austria; FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSHUNG E.V., Germany; UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, UK. |