gabe@gabegold.com
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 09:42:55 -0500
During last week's MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress in San Jose, Calif., designers, researchers, and industry representatives argued for putting MEMS devices, like accelerometers and microphones, and a wide variety of other sensors in just about everything. We heard about an electric snowboard with traction control, voice-controlled garbage cans, and accelerometers placed on the nose to listen for speech in noisy environments.
But sometimes the simplest example is the most memorable. In this case, that was a MEMS accelerometer -- like the one in your step-counter -- that thwarts car thieves.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/transportation/sensors/how-accelerometers-will-soon-thwart-car-thieves