Anonymous ID: 0cca63 Dec. 2, 2023, 8:07 a.m. No.20014063   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4074

Applications of smart dust

 

Agriculture: Constant monitoring of a crop’s nutritional requirements, watering, fertilization, and pest control. This valuable information can help to increase the quantity and quality of the crop. It can also record soil conditions such as pH, fertility, microbial infestations, i.e., information vital for the plant's growth.

 

Industry: Continuous screening of essential equipment, prompting action regarding its maintenance. Assessing the exact condition of machines, their weakness, and corrosion can prevent complete system failure.

 

Environment. Chemical and biological environmental monitoring for health and safety issues (water, air, soil).

 

Urban infrastructure: monitoring for buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, water and sewer pipes, electrical and telecommunications grids will become part of an overall concept of a smart city. For instance, smart dust could already be embedded into concrete during construction.

 

Inventory management: Tracking products from their manufacturing factories to retail shelves via transport facility (ship vessels to trucks) would ensure tight inventory control.

 

Medical diagnostics: see neural smart dust above >>20014013

 

Transport sector: Smart dust transports perishable goods as these materials require constant monitoring. While transporting perishable goods, certain parameters such as temperature, humidity, and aeration have to be monitored continuously. Similarly, smart dust helps to monitor animals' health and control the necessary conditions such as temperature, air, and humidity for safe transport.

 

Military applications: It helps in accessing activities in remote or inaccessible areas. It can also determine the presence of toxic gases or harmful substances and help take necessary actions. Battlefield sensor networks.

 

Space exploration: Weather, seismological monitoring on planets and moons in the solar system. Scientists are also exploring an entirely new type of space telescope with an aperture made of swarms of particles released from a canister and controlled by a laser. NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program is funding the second phase of the "orbiting rainbows" project that attempts to combine space optics and smartdust, or autonomous robotic system technology.

 

Smart dust risks and concerns

 

Wide-scale adoption of smart dust would bring with it a number of risks:

 

Privacy.

Many that have reservations about the real-world implications of smart dust are concerned about privacy issues. Smart dust devices will become so small that they are invisible to our naked eye and, therefore, are extremely difficult to detect. They can be programmed to record whatever their sensors are capable of (ironically, people have begun to voluntarily carry devices that would accomplish exactly that). You probably won’t know who is collecting the data and what they are doing with it. Your imagination can run wild regarding the negative privacy implications when smart dust falls into the wrong hands

 

Control.

Once billions of smart dust devices are deployed over an area it would be difficult to retrieve or capture them if necessary. Given how small they are, it would be challenging to detect them if you weren’t made aware of their presence. The volume of smart dust that could be engaged by a rogue individual, company or government to do harm would make it challenging for the authorities to control if necessary.

 

Cost.

As with any new technology, the cost to implement a smart dust system that includes the satellites and other elements required for full implementation is high. Until costs come down, it will be technology out of reach for many.

 

Pollution.

Smart dust motes essentially are single-use devices. Unless they are fully biodegradable the question arises if they will pollute the areas where they are used (soil, air, water).

 

Health.

As soon as smart dust particles shrink to the nanoscale, their risk profile will match that of nanoparticles in general and the potential health risk associated with inhaling or ingesting them.

 

Legal issues.

The lack of security protecting information created by smart dust networks is creating not only privacy concerns, but the network can be accessed without authorization (i.e., hacked) by third parties and its information can be used for illegal purposes.

Anonymous ID: 0cca63 Dec. 2, 2023, 9:47 a.m. No.20014500   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4510 >>4523

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As evidence of friendly fire killings on October 7 mounts,

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It will shred the cars completely before burying them to

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