smart dust

British

noun

slang computing same as sensor network

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Dust in the wind: The Wall Street Journal delves into “smart dust,” or machines that never stop working.

From Los Angeles Times

The bulkiness of the air-temperature-powered system—it’s about the size of an Amazon Echo speaker, though the company hopes to shrink it to the size of a Coke can—illustrates one of the many challenges on the path to creating smart dust.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another promising source of energy for smart dust is heat.

From The Wall Street Journal

They’ve coined a term to describe the potential ubiquity of such sensors: “smart dust.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Smart dust is becoming possible now because of new techniques for lowering the amount of power electronics require.

From The Wall Street Journal

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