{"id":8983,"date":"2018-12-31T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2018-11-11T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T03:23:23","slug":"smart-dust-nano-sized-computers-that-monitor-and-sense-anything-and-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/smart-dust-nano-sized-computers-that-monitor-and-sense-anything-and-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Dust: Nano-sized Computers that Monitor and Sense Anything Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smart dust<\/a> is what people are calling swarms of microscopic monitoring sensors and cameras that are able to monitor and report on anything. They are able to detect light, vibration, temperature and noise and then relay the information back to a receiver. The systems are light and small enough to be able to be suspended in air. Smart Dust was added to the Gartner Hype List in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joshua R. Smith<\/a>, professor at the University of Washington, was quoted in the WSJ<\/a> saying that “if we look at it from the power consumption side, the energy efficiency of microelectronics [needed for smart dust] has improved by more than a factor of a trillion from ENIAC [one of the world\u2019s first electronic computers] to today.”<\/p>\n

Applications for smart dust include:<\/p>\n