Smart dust

Smart dust ( English smartdust ^[1] ) - self-organizing tiny devices ( group robots ) that exchange wireless signals and work as a single system ^[2] .

It is assumed that the basic elements of “smart dust” - motes ( Eng. Mote “speck of dust”) - will ultimately be the size of a particle of sand or even dust. Each motor will have to have its own sensors, a computing node, communication and power supply subsystems. Grouped together, Motes will automatically create very flexible networks with low power consumption. Their applications can range from climate control systems to entertainment devices that interact with other information devices.

The concept of smart dust was introduced by the University of California at Berkeley Christopher Pister in 2001 ^[3] , although earlier the same ideas were featured in science fiction (for example, described in detail by Stanislav Lem in the novels “Invincible” of 1964 and " Peace on Earth " 1984). In 2005, an extensive review was published ^[4] , which collected various methods that can reduce the size of smart dust motes in sensor networks from more than a millimeter to micrometers.

Smart dust devices will be based on low-voltage and deep-low-voltage nanoelectronics and include micro-energy sources together with solid-state pulse supercapacitors (nanoionic supercapacitors ). Developments of the 2010s in the field of nanoradio can also be used as a technological base for translating smart dust into practice ^[5] .