Year: 2022

"SMART DUST isn’t actually a new concept and has been around since the beginning of the 1990s when it was invented out of a prolonged research and study project convened by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Research And Development Corporation (RAND)." https://lnkd.in/dM29NTS View in LinkedIn

WIDE APPLICATIONS. "Smart Dust can be employed in most industries from agriculture to the medical industry and communication. To be precise, the entire world could be measured by means of these omnipresent sensors. The Machine-to-Machine accessible smart dust is made of motes, which are tiny sensors capable of performing a variety of functions. Smart dust is activated by MEMS and brings progression in digital circuitry and wireless communication." https://lnkd.in/dM29NTS View in LinkedIn

CNS OF PLANET EARTH. "HP’s goal is to deploy over a trillion smart dust sensors across the planet to generate a Central Nervous System of the Earth and is working with Royal Dutch Shell to install a million monitors to aid in oil exploration. These tiny devices would evaluate the health of ecosystems, foresee the possibility of earthquakes effectively, review traffic patterns, and observe energy use." https://lnkd.in/dM29NTS View in LinkedIn

TINY SENSORS. "Smart dust" devices are tiny wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that can detect everything from light to vibrations. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon and fabrication techniques, these "motes" could eventually be the size of a grain of sand, though each would contain sensors, computing circuits, bidirectional wireless communications technology and a power supply." https://lnkd.in/dXeQsgY View in LinkedIn

SIZE GOAL. "The goal for researchers is to get these chips down to 1mm on a side. Current motes are about 5mm." https://lnkd.in/dXeQsgY View in LinkedIn

SMART DUST EVERYWHERE. "We’ve been talking about smart dust – general purpose computing, sensors, and wireless networking, all bundled up in millimeter-scale motes drifting in the air currents, flecks of computing power, settling on your skin, ingested, monitoring you inside and out – since the late 90′s." The dawn of smart drugs. https://lnkd.in/dxQi7Ww View in LinkedIn

DUAL-PURPOSE TECHNOLOGY. Smart Dust would have applications that are good, but also others that are not, and be very vulnerable to use by over-active governments and terrorist groups. All dual-purpose technology shares this characteristic. View in LinkedIn

DUST EVERYWHERE. "Each 'mote' of smart dust floats in the air, containing a power supply, a sensor, some circuitry and a way to communicate with other nodes. They could measure anything, from temperature, moisture and movement to chemical signatures and brainwaves. Because they're so small and innocuous, they can be everywhere." https://lnkd.in/d6UF5U9 View in LinkedIn

SMARTDUST PLUS IoT. "M3 Michigan Micro Motes, are cubic millimeter sized devices capable of carrying out complex computing functions on a chip an incredibly tiny package - rightfully nicknamed “smart dust.” IoT expansion is limited by the actual number of real-world objects equipped with self-communicable sensors - but now imagine an environment coated in these so-called smart dust computers." https://lnkd.in/dhJznCG View in LinkedIn

COMMUNICATION GAP. "Smart dust. Utility fog. Programmable matter. Grey and blue goo. Cooperating swarms of micron-sized devices (motes) offer completely new solutions and capabilities that can hardly be imagined. However, cooperation requires communication, and conventional radio or optical networking simply isn't practical at this size." https://lnkd.in/dexKJsv View in LinkedIn