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Thursday, July 17, 2014

SMART DUST and its Applications

The smart dust mote consists of a micro controller which determines the task performed by the micro controller and the amount of power to be given to various components of the smart dust as energy conservation is one of the important issues in these motes
                           The microcontroller in the smart dust gets reading from one of the sensors processes it and stores it in the memory .it often switches on its optical receivers see if anyone is trying  to communicate  .the communication includes information about the task to be performed by the mote which could even change the behavior of the mote by giving new program code .to transmit a data to the centre station or another mote the mote uses the corner cube retro reflector or laser beam .
Smart Dust remain suspended in the air for hours, the air currents can also move them in the direction of flow. It is very hard to detect the presence of the Smart Dust and it is even harder to get rid of them once deployed. Moreover it does not cost much so can be densely deployed. Due to the above-mentioned features, Smart Dust can be used in varied application fields. These are as follows:
1)    Environmental protection (identification and monitoring of pollution).
2)    Habitat monitoring (observing the behavior of the animals in there natural habitat).
3)    Military application (monitoring activities in inaccessible areas, accompany soldiers and alert them to any poisons or dangerous biological substances in the air).
4)    Indoor/Outdoor Environmental Monitoring
5)    Security and Tracking
6)    Health and Wellness Monitoring (enter human bodies and check for physiological problems)
7)    Power Monitoring
8)    Inventory Location Awareness
9)    Factory and Process Automation
10)    Seismic and Structural Monitoring
11)    Monitor traffic and redirecting it
12)    Virtual keyboard Glue a dust mote on each of your fingernails. Accelerometers will sense the orientation and motion of each of your fingertips, and talk to the computer in your watch.

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