The 1^st MIMOSA Workshop will be held on 19 October as a satellite event of the European Micro and NanoSystems Conference.
The Workshop will point out the research objectives and the preliminary results achieved by the Integrated Project "MIMOSA: Microsystems platform for Mobile Services and Applications".
The main focus of MIMOSA is to perform advanced research in the field of ambient intelligence to enhance the quality of life of citizens (intelligent house, improving health, improving training efficiency of sportsman...). The main idea is to propose all these services on an advanced mobile phone platform. In order to complete these objectives, research efforts will be conducted concerning the scenarios that could be considered, the different architectures and the technological development that would benefit to have a smart mobile.
In the field of advanced architectures, the key parameters are the low voltage, low power circuits, the energy scavenging, the integration of multi sensors within a wireless link and the demonstration of the advantages that could be expected by using the concept of MEMSIC "MEMS technologies embedded with an integrated circuit".

The workshop will be one day long with presentation in the following topics:

• General Overview of the MIMOSA vision,
• Invited paper on ambient intelligence,
• Scenarios,
• Technologies development (sensors, MEMS, IC),
• Architecture and Microsystem integration

For more information, contact Robert Plana, LAAS, Toulouse, France.