Internet of Things and Smartdust:the Future of Wireless Network Sensors

Abstract

This Paper reviews the key elements of the emergent technology of "Smart Dust" and outlines the research challenges they present to the mobile networking and systems community, which must provide coherent connectivity to large numbers of mobile network nodes co-located within a small volume. This has enabled very compact, autonomous and mobile nodes, each containing one or more sensors, computation and communication capabilities, and a power supply. Large-scale networks of wireless sensors are becoming increasingly tractable. Advances in hardware technology and engineering design have led to dramatic reductions in size, power consumption and cost for digital circuitry, wireless communications and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). The missing ingredient is the networking and applications layers needed to harness this revolutionary capability into a complete system. The main aim of this study was to explore the application of Internet of Things and smart dust in Academic Institution.