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QUANTUM DOT UTILITY FOG. "A individual micromachine of Utility Fog was called a 'foglet', which reacted with numerous other foglets through its tweleve tiny arms. A individual substance of Quantum Dot Utility Fog could be called a "Qmote", for Quantum Mote, and would follow the same interactions minus the mechanics." https://lnkd.in/d3fctT6 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

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

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

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

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

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

MILITARY INTEREST. "It’s easy to see why the military wants smart dust. During the Vietnam War, the military deployed a slew of remote sensors to detect and track North Vietnamese troops. Although the planned “McNamara Line” along the DMZ never fully materialized, the sensors proved their worth during the Siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968." https://lnkd.in/ezqcA3j 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

MILITARY INTEREST. "It’s easy to see why the military wants smart dust. During the Vietnam War, the military deployed a slew of remote sensors to detect and track North Vietnamese troops. Although the planned “McNamara Line” along the DMZ never fully materialized, the sensors proved their worth during the Siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968." https://lnkd.in/ezqcA3j View in LinkedIn