A collection of microelectromechanical systems forming a simple computer in a container light enough to remain suspended in air, used mainly for information gathering in environments that are hostile to life.
Example sentencesExamples
Well, we already have concepts of smart dust, and self-organising swarms and motes.
Next, a laser - say, on an airplane flying over a desert sandstorm - would read the spectrographic signature of the smart dust to see what agents the particles had encountered.
Others see the futuristic battlefield equipped with unmanned fighter jets pulling 20 G's, smart dust sensors seeding the battlefield and integrated circuits built one atom at a time.
Definition of smart dust in US English:
smart dust
noun
A collection of microelectromechanical systems forming a simple computer in a container light enough to remain suspended in air, used mainly for information gathering in environments that are hostile to life.
Example sentencesExamples
Next, a laser - say, on an airplane flying over a desert sandstorm - would read the spectrographic signature of the smart dust to see what agents the particles had encountered.
Others see the futuristic battlefield equipped with unmanned fighter jets pulling 20 G's, smart dust sensors seeding the battlefield and integrated circuits built one atom at a time.
Well, we already have concepts of smart dust, and self-organising swarms and motes.