• DocumentCode
    3741016
  • Title

    A market analysis of technologies towards the disappearing of electronics

  • Author

    Gianluca Zaffiro

  • Author_Institution
    Trend Analysis & Future Centre, Telecom Italia S.p.A., Torino, Italy
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    399
  • Lastpage
    400
  • Abstract
    Miniaturization of computation, thanks to Moore´s Law, goes to every object including those that we wear and stand around us. This trend is facilitated by the introduction of general purpose modules that extend the community of designers to include unskilled creatives. Printed Electronics, using organic materials instead of silicon, makes it possible to create edible, disposable and perishable IoT devices. 3D Printing can embed electronic materials into any bearing structure, transforming dumb objects into digitally alive ones through Structural Electronics. The spread of smart devices fosters the development of super batteries, energy harvesting and wireless transfer. In this work these trends towards a disappearing electronics are described and analyzed.
  • Keywords
    "Consumer electronics","Batteries","Market research","Energy harvesting","Wireless sensor networks","Wireless communication","Plastics"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Consumer Electronics (GCCE), 2015 IEEE 4th Global Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GCCE.2015.7398712
  • Filename
    7398712