Smart dust micro computers

Duration: 2 minutes and 19 seconds

Country: Brazil

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Documentary

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Posted by: crba on Nov 12, 2009

This video shows how the new technology of smart dust will be used to improve our lives in the future, in the sense of ubiquitous computing.

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(...) but in the future, every square inch of every city will be alive with intelligence.
Because every street and every bulding
will have a network of microcomputers
built right into them.
Dr. Chris Pister calls it 'Smart Dust'.
A Smart Dust, particle, or mote
is a wireless sensor with sensing computation,
communication, and power in one package.
This 'all-in-one' microcomputers will be small.
Very small.
The size of mote today is about the size of
a grain of rice.
Now we've shown that we can make the circuitry smaller of the light of
that eventually, it'll be possible to make things that are on a sub-million meters size scale.
Tiny specs of computer's Smart Dust
will form a vast invisible network
that can help manage the infrastructure
of even the largest city.
The smart cities in the future will take this
low-power, inexpensive and small technology
and basically distribute it everywhere.
These tiny computers record information about
their surroundings; information they can send
to other computers or to you.
The Smart Dust on the tracks will manager your commuter trains
and you'll know if it's running late.
Paddles will be able to report themselves
and warning your car. And you'll never have to
wait for a radio traffic report again.
They're monitoring the flow of traffic
and giving little alerts about what round is the driver ready to go
to keep the traffic moving.
Bridges will get a coding of Sarmt Dust particles that can warn us
when they detect stress fractures
helping avoid deadly colapses.
But Smart Dust will also allow buildings and streets to recognize you
and respond accordingly.
Think increasingly, the environment will respond to who you are
and adapt in consequence.
The city will know where you are if you want to.
Your workplace will know you.
Smart Dust at the entrance will boot up your computer.
And Smart Dust embedded in the elevator doors will automatically ring your floor.
Smart Dust is going to sense the environment
and allow us to improve the way that we live our lives.
No matter how we live in the future city, it'll be radically different.

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