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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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Because the smart dust reflects different wavelengths of light when in contact with different molecules, the researchers can track multiple drops simultaneously. But all the stuff discussed in this story--including smart dust, smart lofts (inevitably), smart houses and the like--are topics about which architects are soon going to have to be cognisant. The miniaturization of hardware and growth of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology has led to the development of smart dust and other tiny sensors. |
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