The need for a new approach to sensing

The reasoning for this article comes from the development of “A brief study of the structure of the sensor supply and demand to meet the needs of the Water/Environment Industry” which is a 66 page report available at www.optocem.net. The work done was part of the objectives of OptoCem.Net which is a part of the Dti’s Knowledge Transfer Networks Scheme (KTN). The objective of KTNs is to stimulate collaborative R&D, encouraging commercial exploitation and promote best use in industry; in the case of OptoCem.net the Water/ Environment Industry and Oil/Gas Industries. The objective of the article is to plead for a multi-discipline and multi-level management approach to sensing and monitoring for both process control and environmental control. (Although I would argue that process control and management control is one and the same thing.)