Technical Committee on Sensor Technology (TC-9), and IEEE Sensors Council cosponsored the workshop. NIST is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerceis Technology Administration. Its mission is to help increase U.S. industry competitiveness through advanced research, standards, and technology collaboration. Recently, there has been considerable interest from industry and government in applying wireless technology to sensor-based applications. Wireless technology has seen an explosion over the last couple years with the introduction of Bluetooth and higher speed wireless Ethernet. These technologies are moving from the office environment to the industrial plant floor as engineers discover how flexible and easy to use they are. The Sensor Development and Application Group at NIST has been working with industry and IEEE to establish IEEE 1451, titled i A Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuators!. In response to the industry! s interest in wireless sensing, NIST initiated, cosponsored and conducted a workshop in June of 2001. The workshop in June provided NIST with valuable information as to the direction it should take in helping develop a wireless version of IEEE 1451. At the first workshop, it was proposed that a second workshop be held in order to discuss some of the more important issues as well as work on forming a study group for wireless 1451. The second workshop provided a more concentrated format in order to discuss the issues. The format for the workshop consisted of a meeting of the IEEE 145 1.2 committee for the first couple hours and the rest of the day taken up by the wireless sensing workshop. Eighteen people attended the IEEE 1451.2 committee meeting split approximately 4 to 3 to 3 between vendors, users, and government employees respectively. Twenty-three people attended the wireless sensing workshop split approximately 4 to 4 to 2 between vendors, users, and government employees respectively. Overall attendance at the conference was down by over 70% compared with the June 2001 conference. It is assumed that the severe drop in attendance of the second workshop compared to the first is due to the events of September 1 1th and not due to the lack of interest in the subject matter.
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