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smart dust

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smart dust
Miniaturized sensor/transmitters that are sprinkled onto an area such as a battlefield and used to analyze the environment. Developed by Professor Kris Pister at the University of California at Berkeley and expected in the next decade, smart dust particles are planned to be no more than 1 cubic millimeter in size, which includes a solar cell, a sensor, CPU, memory and radio transmitter. See mote and smart skin.
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For smart dust to be useful, however, engineers must figure out how to build a global view from the information provided by millions or billions of individual sensors.
Sensor sensibility: the mathematics of shapes is illuminating the ... by Klarreich, Erica / Science News
95 Hardcover TK7872 Ilyas and Mahgoub, both affiliated with the College of Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, have selected chapters from the Handbook of Sensor Networks to create a reference on the design and performance of smart dust sensor networks.
Smart dust; sensor network applications, architecture, and design by SciTech Book News
The smart dust could also have a number of other uses.
Smart dust will be cars' Little Brother by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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