Tuesday, February 26, 2013

SMART DUST



Abstract:
Smart dust is an emerging technology made up from tiny, wireless sensors or motes. These large scale networks of wireless sensors are becoming increasingly tractable. Advances in hardware technology and engineering design have led to dramatic reductions in size, power consumption and cost for digital circuitry, wireless communications and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). This has enabled very compact, autonomous and mobile nodes, each containing one or more sensors, computation and communication capabilities, and a power supply. This paper gives a profound description about the technology and also the working of a mote, which are very tiny wireless sensors and also about the history. It also gives a detailed description about types of transmission between sensors and the antennas. The optical mode of transmission is most effective one. It also states the various challenges faced for the development of mobile networking protocols for Smart Dust. The missing ingredient is the networking and applications layers needed to harness this revolutionary capability into a complete system. Thus we review the key elements of the emergent technology of "Smart Dust" and outline the research challenges they present to the mobile networking and systems community, which must provide coherent connectivity to large numbers of mobile network nodes co-located within a small volume.

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