Smartdust
Smartdust
Design and engineering
The concepts for Smart Dust emerged from a workshop at
A Smart Dust research proposal
The concept was later expanded upon by Kris Pister in 2001.
The Ultra-Fast Systems component of the Nanoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Glasgow is a founding member of a large international consortium which is developing a related concept: smart specks.[7]
Smart Dust entered the Gartner
In 2022, a Nature paper written by Shyamnath Gollakota, Vikram Iyer, Hans Gaensbauer and Thomas Daniel, all from the University of Washington, presented tiny light-weight programmable battery-free wireless sensors that can be dispersed in the wind.[10] These devices were inspired by Dandelion seeds that can travel as far as a kilometer in dry, windy, and warm conditions.
Examples
Dust Networks started a project exploring the application of Smartdust, which included:
- Defense-related sensor networks such as battlefield surveillance, treaty monitoring, transportation monitoring, and scud hunting.
- Virtual keyboard sensors: by attaching miniature remotes to each fingernail, accelerometers could then sense the orientation and motion of each fingertip, and communicate this data to a computer in a wristwatch.
- Inventory control: by placing miniature sensors on each object in the inventory system (product package, carton, pallet, truck warehouse, internet), each component could "talk" to the next component in the system. This evolved into today's RFIDinventory control systems.
- Product quality monitoring: temperature and humidity monitoring of perishables such as meat, produce, and dairy.
- Impact, vibration and temperature monitoring of consumer electronics, for failure analysis and diagnostic information, e.g. monitoring the vibration of bearings to detect frequency signatures that may indicate imminent failure.
See also
- A Deepness in the Sky
- Claytronics
- Dust Networks, Inc.
- Grey goo
- Mesh networking
- Nanotechnology
- Neural dust
- Prey (novel), a 2002 science fiction thriller by Michael Crichton about nanorobots which attack in swarms.
- Programmable matter
- RFID
- Self-reconfiguring modular robotics
- The Diamond Age, a 1995 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that mentions the use of dust for surveillance.
- The Invincible, a 1964 science fiction novel with intrigue centered on self-configuring microrobotic swarms.
- Smart camera
- Smart camera network
- TinyOS
- Ubiquitous computing
- Unconventional computing
- Utility fog
- Wireless sensor network
References
- ^ More than Meets the eye. PC Mag. Mar 12, 2002. Page 30.
- Games. Issue 160 (Vol 24, #3). Pg.6. May 2000.
- ^ "Smart Dust: BAA97-43 Proposal Abstract, POC: Kristofer S.J. Pister" (PDF). berkeley.edu. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
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- ^ "CiteSeerX". psu.edu. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ Makin, Simon (August 8, 2016). ""Neural Dust" Could Enable a Fitbit for the Nervous System". Scientific American. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ "Smart Dust for Space Exploration". Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
- ^ "2003 Gartner Hype Cycle on emerging technologies". Gartner. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "2013 Gartner Hype Cycle on emerging technologies". Gartner. Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- S2CID 247499662.
External links
- How stuff works: motes
- Open source mote designs and TinyOS operating system from UC Berkeley
- Rethinking The Internet of Things Nature driven view of M2M cloud communications based on lightweight chirp devices.
- UC Berkeley Smart Dust Project
- Info about smart dust communications Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Sailor research group at UCSD
- SpeckNet research groups based in Scotland
- Web of Sensors "In the wilds of the San Jacinto Mountains, along a steep canyon, scientists are turning 30 acres [121,000 m2] of pines and hardwoods in California into a futuristic vision of environmental study. They are linking up more than 100 tiny sensors, robots, cameras and computers, which are beginning to paint an unusually detailed portrait of this lush world, home to more than 30 rare and endangered species. Much of the instrumentation is wireless. Devices the size of a deck of cards — known as motes, after dust motes..."
- Technologies to watch: motes
- Molecular shuttle power: Smart dust biosensors may be smaller than a grain of sand but they have big potential – an Instant Insight from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- http://www.betabatt.com/ Betavoltaic batteries from 2.5 micrometre cubed upwards, 10 to 30-year lifespan.