The IEEE Sensors Council has 23 member societies, the combined membership of which exceeds 200,000. The Council's main activities are the IEEE Sensors Journal, and the IEEE SENSORS Conference. The IEEE Sensors Journal has grown rapidly since its first issue in 2001; it is scheduled to publish about 2,000 pages in 2007. The 2007 IEEE SENSORS Conference received 804 submissions, of which 380 (47%) were accepted.