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SmartDust Sensorwebs 'Real Soon Now'

Posted by michael on from the all-we-are-is-dust-in-the-wind dept.

DeAshcroft writes "EE Times has a piece on progress with the four-year-old DARPA-conceived Smart Dust self-organizing sensor networks. Based on Berkeley's TinyOS and TinyDB open-source projects, the article reports several companies are demonstrating both military and civilian applications. Ars Technica adds background and commentary on issues not discussed in the EET article."

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  1. Clean Room parade? by Noryungi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One possible solution to protect against smart dust would to create military buildings with a high internal atmospheric pressure: people who enter the building who create a draft directed at the outside, which should be enough to blow away "smart dust".

    At least I hope so... If you cross Total Information Awareness and smart dust you have one scary scenario... =(

    And even "clean" (high internal pressure) buildings don't help military units in the fields...

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