I gave this talk as part of a seminar on Massively Distributed Systems at the Distributed Systems Group, Chair of Computer Science IV of RWTH Aachen University.

1. Smart Dust
Hardware for
Wireless Sensor Networks
Martin Jansen
Distributed Systems Group
Chair of Computer Science IV
RWTH Aachen University
http://ds.cs.rwth-aachen.de
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2. Agenda
1. Introduction
1.1. Use Cases
1.2. Requirements
1.3. Hierarchies
2. Hardware implementations
2.1. Intel Mote
2.2. Telos
2.3. eXtreme Scale Mote
3. Summary
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3. 1. Introduction
• Wireless Sensor Networks are also
called „Smart Dust“
• „[N]etworks of interconnected
computing devices deeply
embedded into the physical
environment (...) providing detailed
instrumentation of many points
over large spaces, both natural and
artificial.“
• The nodes of a sensor network are
called Motes.
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