{"id":11867,"date":"2022-12-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2022-05-24T08:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:50:45","slug":"smart-dust-miniature-devices-that-can-monitor-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/smart-dust-miniature-devices-that-can-monitor-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Dust: Miniature Devices that can Monitor the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Smart Dust<\/a><\/em> refers to sub-millimeter-scale devices that are able to be suspended in an environment and sense and wirelessly communicate. These miniscule devices<\/a> can sense many different kinds of things, like light, temperature, vibrations, pressure, acceleration, humidity, sound, stress, presence of toxins, and more. Smart Dust<\/a> devices are sometimes referred to as MOTEs or MEMS (micro-electromechanical sensors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Blaauw<\/a>, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of Michigan, said that<\/a> “we should be arriving very soon at millimeter-scale computing systems. There is actually a lot of information out there that we cannot access\u2026 because we\u2019re not small enough. With millimeter-scale systems, we can actually illuminate knowledge into regions of our environment that we just don\u2019t have access to today.” Smart Dust devices are small enough to be put anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some practical applications of smart dust include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n