Consumer demand for  “MEMS Everywhere” is creating new opportunities in the MEMS ecosystem. As the  number of MEMS devices in any given consumer product increases, the challenge  of integrating the MEMS ‘inside the machine’ has grown increasingly complex as  well. As device manufacturers are jockeying for position and design wins, they  must fulfill mass-market requirements for low-cost, low-power MEMS applications  like inertial sensors, magnetometers and microphones. With consumer-grade  pressure sensors, RF MEMS and timing devices now entering the mix, the need for  intelligent integration is more important than ever.  Both device  manufacturers and software suppliers will seize this opportunity with  sensor-fusion software solutions that promise to ease integration in these  complex heterogeneous systems. Application developers will capitalize on this  robust MEMS ecosystem to drive new usage models, enabling cutting-edge  technologies like augmented reality (AR) for gaming, media, education, and even  visual speech, navigation and discovery, and social networking.  With MEMS near-ubiquity  in consumer products, MEMS Industry Group has assembled a panel of industry  experts to examine the most exciting opportunities and toughest challenges in  consumer MEMS, including:

  • Do MEMS, and MEMS  suppliers, play a role in data security or privacy concerns given their  increasingly integral role in enabling the “Internet of Everything” via the  addition of MEMS sensor data to connectivity and the cloud?
  • What are the primary  driving forces for MEMS in the consumer space?
  • How will younger  generations change expectations for what MEMS does for consumer products?
  • How can startups  compete with major MEMS suppliers in markets where price erosion and high  volume are dual influences?
  • Will MEMS play a role in  the still untapped opportunity for energy harvesting and low-power options for  consumer products?

Please join us Thursday, November 8, 2012, 1:45-2:30 p.m.  for the panel, MEMS in Consumer Products <http://memsindustrygroup.createsend1.com/t/y-l-jtjjurl-stjiuduii-n/> , at the eighth annual MEMS Executive Congress <http://memsindustrygroup.createsend1.com/t/y-l-jtjjurl-stjiuduii-p/> .

Featured Speakers Moderator: Evgeni Gousev <http://memsindustrygroup.createsend1.com/t/y-l-jtjjurl-stjiuduii-x/> , senior director, Technology Development, Qualcomm MEMS Technologies,  Inc. Panelists:

 

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