Intelligent Device Hierarchy - 2005 Potential

A pyramid depicts a hierarchy of devices. An arrow indicates a tendency of Human-Centric at the top, to Device-Centric at the bottom. The levels of the pyramid are as follows.

• Mobile info appliances
  • Mobile phones, PDAs, scanners, Web Tablets, GPS, etc.
  • 1.5 billion
• Static info appliances
  • PC's, servers, etc.
  • 500 million
• Mobile devices
  • Vehicle cargo containers, tankers, supply chain assets (SKU)s...
  • 350 million (SKUs: trillions)
• Static devices
  • Medical Device, HVAC, industrial machinery, distributed generation...
  • 375 million
• Controllers
  • Industrial controllers, appliance controllers...
  • 500 million
• Smart sensors
  • Accelerometers, pressure gauges, flow, position, speed, temp biosensors, etc.
  • 750 million
• Microprocessors & Microcontrollers
  • 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-bit chips, etc.
  • 35 billion

Adjacent to the pyramid are pictures of several devices for illustration purposes.

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