SmartDust

What is smart dust? Some people may know about this. Smartdust is a network of very small sensors that can communicate with each other in wireless and ad-hoc maner. Smartdust sensors are more simillar to the normal sensor.

As other sensors smartdust consisted with 3 major components.

1. Mote (processor)
2. Sensor (device to use sense)
3. Radio Link (communicate with other nodes and base station)

Smartdus can detect temperature, humidity, magnetic field, vibration and other messurements. When we apply smartdust in real world thousands of nodes are scattered around the sensor field.

This is a very valuble in military applications. battlefield surveillance, treaty monitoring, transportation monitoring, enemy troops tracking.

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