The incredible acceleration of interactive mobility technologies (biotechnologies, microelectronics, nanoelectronics, home automation...) has resulted in the conception of hitherto inconceivable devices: complete and quasi-autonomous technological systems, interactive mobile devices (IMD) that are revolutionizing our relationship with our environment and providing gateways between technologies.

Interactive Mobile Device: an integrated system conferring an object with autonomy, mobility and enabling it to enter into communication with any other system, device or human being.

These rapidly developing world markets offer great new opportunities !
There are several factors encouraging the emergence of IMDs, a new generation of communication devices that surpass the simple notion of integration within complex supports:

• miniaturization and lightweight made possible via microelectronics and nanotechnologies
• the multiplication of the capabilities, the power (System-on-Chip – SOC, System-in-Package – SIP) and the autonomy of IMDs
• ever-increasing interactivity, multiprotocol / multilingual
• multifunctionality which, over and above the technological improvement of objects we use in our daily lives (telephone, laptop computer, automobile...), transforms IMDs into totally independent entities
• an infinite scope of applications and uses, determined by the potential interactions between IMDs themselves, with their support media (human beings or other devices) and with their environment