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Smart Sensors at Work Impressive Partner Sensors are everywhere around us, from smartphones to automobiles. But, far While FAMRC will provide working research more sophisticated applications—mostly invisible to us—are at work every day and development facilities (43,000 square feet in everything from theme park rides—like those at Walt Disney World, where of cleanroom space, 30,700 square feet of man and machine interact at high speed in close proximity to each other elevated sub fabrication and 15,000 square feet making fantasy seem real—to aviation and aerospace, energy, health care of offices), fueling growth for Florida will be the and national security. role of ICAMR in attracting a broad set of supply chain companies. At least initially, it is likely they • n airports, sensors read data from bar-coded luggage tags and direct I would be attracted to the 220-acre research baggage to the right airplane untouched by human hands much of the park surrounding FAMR