Networked Embedded Systems: From Sensor Webs to Cyber-Physical Systems

There has been a great deal of excitement in recent years concerning the evolution of sensor webs of smart dust. There has been a very substantive active world wide in this area and in particular at Berkeley there have now been over six generation of "motes" for these sensor webs, and at least three new start ups have arisen to commercialize these developments. I will survey these developments and where they have brought us in a very important new class of computing involving an integration of communication and computing. I will describe how the technology push is matched by the applications pull on numerous different applications.