MagicSmart Dust

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Magic(Smart) Dust

• John Jackson

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What is SmartDust?

• Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)?
• Nodes in SmartDust are called Motes
• Motes in SmartDust are microelctromechanical
  systems (MEMS)?
• Smart Matter Palo Alto Research Center
• Embedded sensors in materials to alter properties
• Smart Dust 1998 UC Berkley

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Example Mote Design from UCB
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Progress
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Potential Uses/Applications

• Environmental Monitoring
• Disaster detection
• Engineering
• Structural Monitoring
• Virtual Keyboards
• Health Care
• Microsurgery
• Military
• Battles-pace Monitoring
• More

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Benefits/Concerns

• Pros
• Flexibility
• Affordability
• Efficiency
• Cons
• Privacy
• Security
• Volume
• Toxicity

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Works Cited

• Hoffman, Thomas. Mighty motes for medicine,
  manufacturing, the military and more.
  ComputerWorld March 2003. ComputerWorld Inc. 24
  March 2003 lthttp//www.computerworld.com/mobileto
  pics/mobile/story/0,10801,79572,00.htmlgt.
• Mahgoub, Imad, and Mohammad Ilyas. Smart Dust
  Sensor Network Applications, Architecture, and
  Design. Boca Raton CRC Press, 2005.
• MEMS / Smart Matter Research at PARC.
  lthttp//www2.parc.com/spl/projects/smart-matter/gt.