by Neha K. Choksi, Consultant, SmallTech Consulting, LLC
March 2, 2010 - It has been more than a decade since Kris Pister introduced the concept of "smart dust": a distributed wireless network of sensors with self-contained sensing, computation, communication, and power. Although there are a handful of companies in this space (Crossbow Technology, Dust Networks, GainSpan, Arch Rock, for example), distributed wireless sensing networks have yet to hit main stream. At the IEEE Bay Area Nanotechnology meeting on February 16, 2010, Dr. Peter Hartwell revealed new efforts at Hewlett Packard that could change all of that.
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