Submitted By:saransh Agrawal
Submitted By:saransh Agrawal
INTRODUCTION
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MAJOR COMPONENTS AND REQUIREMENTS OF
SMART DUST:-
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Low-energy computation
The Smart Dust mote’s tasks closely relate to the physical realm, where the fastest
sampling is 10 to 20 kHz for vibration and acoustic sensors so the amount of data is small
enough that we can use low data transmition rates. Therefore we can use clock rates in
the 1 to 180 kHz range to decrease dynamic power consumption. Despite these low clock
rates, the circuits perform all their transitions during a small portion of the cycle; then they
remain idle. Thus, powering down blocks for even a few clock cycles saves energy.
Remote programmability
Remote programmability plays an important role in millimeter-scale
computing. Given their small size and large numbers, we prefer to program
these devices in masses, without direct connections. Remote
programmability also avoids the costs of recollecting and reprogramming
devices after we deploy them.
MODE OF COMMUNICATION
Smart Dust’s full potential can only be attained when the sensor
nodes communicate with one another or with a central base station.
Wireless communication facilitates simultaneous data collection from
thousands of sensors. There are several options for communicating to and
from a cubic-millimeter computer. Radio frequency and optical
communications each have their strengths and weaknesses.
Radio-frequency communication is well understood, but currently
requires minimum power levels in the multiple milliwatts range due to
analog mixers, filters, and oscillators. If whisker-thin antennas of centimeter
length can be accepted as a part of a dust mote, then reasonably efficient
antennas can be made for radio-frequency communication.
Semiconductor lasers and diode receivers are intrinsically small,
and the corresponding transmission and detection circuitry for on/off keyed
optical communication is more amenable to low-power operation than most
radio schema. Most important, optical power can be collimated in tight
beams even from small apertures. Diffraction enforces a fundamental limit
on the divergence of a beam, whether it comes from an antenna or a lens.
Laser pointers are cheap examples of milliradian collimation from a
millimeter aperture. To get similar collimation for a 1-GHz radiofrequency
signal would require an antenna 100 meters across, due to the difference in
wavelength of the two transmissions. As a result, optical transmitters of
millimeter size can get antenna gains of one million or more, while
similarly sized radio frequency antennas are doomed by physics to be
mostly isotropic.
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Collimated optical communication has two major drawbacks. Line
of sight is required for all but the shortest distances, and narrow beams
imply the need for accurate pointing.
Further optical communication is explored in some depth due to the
potential for extreme low-power communication.
Figure 2: Comparison of communication modules
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OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Passive-reflective systems
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Active- steered laser systems
Imaging receivers
Video camera
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Figure 3: Imaging receiver concept
Figure 4: Basic components of a smart pixel in an integrated imaging
receiver
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CURRENT ADVANCEMENTS
MICROBOTICS
Add legs or wings to smart dust and we get micro robots. Like
smart dust, these synthetic insects will sense, think, and communicate. In
addition they will have the ability to move about and interact physically
with their environment. Micro machining can be used to build micro
actuators and micro mechanisms, forming legs and wings, which are
integrated with other smart dust components.
The crawling microbot consume only tens of micro watts of power;
the motors can lift more than 130 times the robot’s own weight. The flying
microbot have a wing span of 10-25 mm and will sustain autonomous
flight. Developers folded 50 micron thick stainless steel into desired shape
to create the wings and exoskeleton. Piezoelectric motors attached to the
exoskeleton actuate the wings. These legged and winged microbots will
consume a total power of less than 10 milliwatts, provided by onboard solar
cells.
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COTS DUST
They are large scale bodies for models for smart dust and they are
devices that incorporate communications, processing, sensors and batteries
into a package about a cubic inch in size.
COTS dust was designed with the intention of testing out
communication and sensing capabilities of large number of nodes.
Potential applications are limitless! They can range from fire detectors to
espionage, from earthquake monitoring to people tracking.
The basic structure of COTS dust consists of an Atmel
microcontroller with sensors and communication unit. The communication
unit is one of the following: an RF transceiver, a laser module, a corner
cube reflector. Devices can have one or all of the following sensors:
temperature, light, humidity, pressure, 3axis magnetometer, 3axis
accelerometers.
GOLEM DUST
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ADVANTAGES
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APPLICATIONS OF SMART DUST
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CONCLUSION