Abstract

In the world of IoT (Internet of Things) recently attracting much attention, Trillion Sensors (TSensors) Initiative has been making remarkable progress with the vision toward Trillion Sensors Universe where trillion sensors are connected to network to solve the global problems such as No Hunger, Medical-/Health-Care, No Pollution, Disaster Resilience and Clean Energy to All. TSensors as well as Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet has been enabled by remarkable growth of MEMS & Sensors in the last decades. Japan has been faced with problems of aging society, aging infrastructure and sustainable environment as a front runner in the world in its position of finding out the unmet solutions. MEMS are playing an essential role to create new models for those solutions with the unrivalled features of MEMS sensors and wireless sensor network to be applied in broader areas. Printed Sensors are also expected to provide wider range applications including hybrid with MEMS. The latest information on the TSensors movement will be presented as well as the challenges for the future development will be discussed.