I chose to blog about Smart Dust because it is an emerging information technology that I have never heard about prior to our MIS class and I find it fascinating.
According to Pam Gorder, author of Sizing Up Smart Dust, Smart Dust is a collection of extremely small wireless sensors that gather information and transmit it to a desired user. This technology was invented by Kris Pister at the University of Berkley in California (Gorder, 2003).
Smart Dust "which measures roughly 5mm", can easily be placed virtually anywhere in the world. Its job is to transmit a variety of information such as "sound, vibrations, temperature, moisture, chemical composition" to a specific computer network (Gorder, 2003).
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