Opportunities and Challenges of Sensor Technologies in Business Environments

Exploring the opportunities and challenges for business A sensor is a device that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure, or any one of a great number of other environmental phenomena. Sensors are not just a new phenomenon as variations of these technologies have been around for years but with the expansion of wifi, the availability of cheaper devices and societies acceptance to such technologies we are now facing the ‘perfect storm’ for growth.

This assessment aims to encourage your understanding what the many opportunities and challenges are going to be as more and more sensor start to be embedded into business environments.

You are asked to write a literature review to provide a theoretical understanding of sensor technologies (you can choose one sector, or one product, or take a general overview of the connected world), then create an academic poster to demonstrate a practical understanding of sensor (the same topic areas as the literature review):

a. You are asked to carry out a systematic literature review of your chosen sensor topic area. Your purpose is to discover relevant,
peer-reviewed, academic research articles on your chosen sensor topic area

b. Introduce your sensor topic area and construct a balanced discussion that may include a comparison between different authors' views on an issue, highlight areas in which authors are in disagreement you can group authors who draw similar  Conclusions, offer a criticism on aspects of methodology. Then highlight exemplary studies and or gaps in research (50%)

a. Background of your sensor topic area

b. Consequences of your sensor topic area

c. Make recommendations how society might harness the benefits or mitigate the negatives. (40%)

a. Focus on one area of learning or practice and use Gibbs

Reflective Cycle to frame your discussion. Please add this to the end of your literature review (10%)

1. Demonstrate critical awareness of how digital business applications can support and change the way of doing business by aligning strategic and organisational goals

2. Identify and evaluate digital business applications and their place in the internal value chain

3. Critically appraise existing innovative technologies to fit operation requirements and meet strategic needs

4. Identify and utilise appropriate methods for collecting, analysing and presenting data related to digital business.

5. Demonstrate an ability to work effectively as an individual and group member in order to carry out tasks linking theory to practice so developing new skills to a high level

6. Students will be able to review and diagnose knowledge (tacit and explicit) sharing in organisations to build critical thinking skills and digital literacy skill

7. Communicate the solutions arrived at, and the theory underlying them, in verbal and written form to specialists and non-specialist audiences Locate, summarise and synthesise a range of information from published literature and electronic sources on digital business, innovative and disruptive technologies,