Democratized electronics to enable smart living for all

With the increased global population, smart living is an increasingly important criteria to ensure equal opportunities for all. Therefore, what is Smart Living? The first time when we tossed this terminology seven years back, we thought reducing complexities in human life. Today we believe it more. However, smart living for all complicates the technological need further. As by all, we mean any age group, any academic background and any financial condition. Although electronics are powerful today and have enabled our digital world, many as of today have not experienced that progress. Going forward while we realize more and more electronics in our daily life, the most important question would be how. Here we show, a heterogeneous integration approach to integrate low-cost high performance interactive electronic system which are physically compliant. We are redesigning electronics to redefine its purposes to reconfigure life for all to enable smart living.

Citation

Hussain MM, Nassar JM, Khan SM, Saikh SF, Sevilla GAT, et al. (2017) Democratized electronics to enable smart living for all. 2017 IEEE SENSORS. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234425.

Acknowledgements

This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and various industrial entities.