Smart Dust

ByPushkar Vaidya

Shounak Katyayan

SAND / DUST

Components that are found EVERYWHERE

LandAirWaterHuman Body

Feature of DUST

Very SmallFound AnywhereBlown awayLight in weightRemain suspended in

air

Smart Dust

Smart Dust is a nano structured silicon sensor based on Particle Science, supporting VLSI that can spontaneously gather and relay information on the local environment

Sensors

HumidityTemperaturePressureAccelerationLightMagnetometer

Components

Kristofer S. J. Pister

2001

2008

Progress

Cost

Silicon $0.30Inductor $0.01Crystal $0.15Battery $0.16

Total : $0.62 approx. Rs. 30/chip

Applications

Environmental ProtectionRadiationContainments in waterDisaster

Habitat MonitoringAnimals

Military ApplicationsDetect presence of Enemy troops

Medical ApplicationsDetect Damaged Cells

And Many Others…

Thank You!

Links

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mvigeant/univ270_05/EmilyBeeing/

Methods.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/25/tech/main570080.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2001/05/25_dust.html

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/mote2.htm

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/

http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/smartdustmatrix.html