What is Smart Dust?
What is Smart Dust? The basic answer to this question is microelectromechanical systems. It is known as ‘Smart Dust’ in our language. Smart dust systems have a very small scale. This technology is used in science and many industrial fields. However, this usage is happening in a theoretical sense because it is still a theoretical technology. According to experts, in the long term, this technology will have indispensable importance in many areas of life.
Smart Dust technology can find its activities in every area where humans are present. In other words, it has no limits in practice. It is useful to list some of the application areas of Smart Dust in theory:
Monitoring and directing traffic in everyday life,
Accompanying soldiers to report elements carrying toxic gases or biological hazards in the air,
Tracking people in the environment,
Detecting health problems in advance by infecting the human body.
Smart Dust is objects that are so small that humans cannot see them. This constitutes the application areas mentioned above. In addition to these areas, studies are also being carried out on earthquake technology with Smart Dust, which means intelligent dust technology. With this technology, it is planned to be able to give early warning of earthquakes long before they occur in the future. In addition, it will be inevitable to create fire sensors using this technology.
Smart Dust Usage Cost
Another important and curious issue is the cost of using Smart Dust. First of all, since the scales of the sensors are small, the production cost is at reasonable levels. However, the technology required for these sensors to be connected to a network is quite expensive. No matter how high the cost is, it is inevitable that this technology will make significant contributions to humanity in the future.
The concept of Smart Dust emerged as a result of research conducted in the 1990s for military activities under the DARPA ISAT project. The first public explanation of this concept took place at the American Vacuum Society conference in 1996. With the current technology conditions, the sensors have been reduced to millimeter scale. However, it is aimed to reduce them to a micrometer scale for the project to reach the desired levels. This is predicted to happen in the next few years. In short, smart dust technology continues to grow every day. There is no doubt that in the near future, cities will be covered with dust sensors that you cannot see with the naked eye.
