FuturePundit: Smart Dust Sensors To Be Cheap, Ubiquitous

March 28, 2003

Smart Dust Sensors To Be Cheap, Ubiquitous

Smart Dust to allow cheap and widespread distribution of sensor systems.

"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. Motes would gather scads of data, run computations and communicate that information using two-way band radio between motes at distances approaching 1,000 feet.

That dust you got on your shoes in the company parking lot may be spy sensors planted by a competitor who wants to listen in on company meetings. Or perhaps the dust in your pet's hair was put there by your ex-spouse who wants to find out who you are spending your time with.

When sensor systems become cheap and as small as dust particles it is going to become much easier to lay out sensor networks for a large variety of reasons. Of course this will inevitably lead to microscopic sensors that are designed to detect other types of sensors.

By Randall Parker at 2003 March 28 02:45 AM Surveillance Society

Comments

narendra said at July 31, 2003 10:24 AM:

i am student of BE.INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL.
sir i want detail information about smart dust sensor products for magnetometerAA002-02NVE,accelorometerADXL202Analog device.also i wanl info. about microcontroller used in smart dust sensor.plese send argently.

s.dineshkumar said at September 11, 2003 05:41 AM:

Respected sir,
I am S.Dinesh kumar studying in sree sastha institute of engg&tech. Our team has plnned to take a project on fuzzy logic which involves a module of dust sensing. actually our project is to vary the suction power of vaccum cleaner ccording to the dust density present in the floor. So obviously first we have to sense the density of dust present to increase the suction power that's where we are bit confused about the device or sensor to be used to finish this module.please help us by guiding us for this problem.

Md. Jubaer Hossain said at October 3, 2003 01:37 AM:

I need the catalog of dust sensor and prices of the unit.

Company: Multi Products Limited
City: Dhaka
Country: Bangladesh

Ramesh said at November 26, 2003 04:13 AM:

I need the catalogue of Sensors for detection of dust in air for a domestic project that is being carried out in my B.E Electronics discipline.It seems to be quite urgent.

albert alias said at January 15, 2004 01:57 AM:

i want the detail information about dust sensor.the type of input it requires the output that it produces, and all other essential factors. this is required for my mini project.please send me the details of the dust sensor as early as posible.please send it fast it is urgent.

Girish A Inamdar said at May 26, 2004 02:36 AM:

Sir Iam student of Final year B.E. insrrumentation.I want to give seminar on dust sensor. Please give me detailed information of dust sensor.

panneer selvam said at July 4, 2004 09:39 AM:

Sir I am student of Final year B.E. Electronics and communication Please give me detailed information of dust sensor.

v.vedanarayanan said at July 22, 2004 12:30 AM:

respected sir, i want tutorials or class notes on operation(working principle) of vaccum cleaners using fuzzy logic with diagrams.

g. bush said at January 17, 2005 05:35 AM:

sir, i need the plans of how to conquer the world.. it is urgent !

ashok swain said at September 8, 2005 10:05 PM:

i want to give seminar on dust sensor.Please give me detailed information of dust sensor

roshni said at October 3, 2005 11:28 AM:

i want to give seminar on SMART DUST..Anyone having details pls sent

Fabrice SCHORR said at December 8, 2005 02:22 AM:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Working at Draeger specialist in gas detection systems i'm interested to learn more about the dust sensor. Could you please send me a datasheet and a idea of the price ?

regards,

anubhuti tandon said at January 24, 2006 07:10 PM:

jalpa patel said at January 25, 2006 03:02 AM:

i want to know about the construction and working of smartdust sensor for detecting various environmental condition.

praveen said at July 30, 2007 03:11 AM:

Sir i am a student on final year B-TECH, i want to give seminar on smart dust.Please give me detailed information of smart dust.

saurav kumar said at August 11, 2007 08:18 PM:

respected sir,
I am a final year engineering student and i have to take seminar on "smart dust technology".i am unable to find sufficient material.
so i request u to please send me the same.for your this act of kindness i shall be thankful to you.
yours faithfully
saurav kumar

prathibha pillai said at October 23, 2007 06:39 PM:

prathibha pillai said at october 24,2007 07:00 AM:

sir i am a student of final year B Sc Electronics,i want to give seminar on SMART DUST. Please give me detailed
information of smart dust.

prathibha pillai said at October 27, 2007 08:55 AM:

sir iam a student of final year B Sc Electronics,i want to give seminar on SMART DUST. Please give me
detailed information of smart dust.

meenal dusane said at March 6, 2008 01:03 AM:

R/S
Sir/Mam,
I am Miss Meenal Dusane from T.E iNSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL i want to give seminar on SMART DUST so plz send me required information with working.plz send as fast as possible.

yours faithfully
meenal