Integrated Systems Health Monitoring Using Smart Dust Mote Sensor Networks

1.0 Project Goal Smart Dust motes are self-contained, millimeter-scale sensing and communication platforms for a massively distributed sensor network [61,71]. They will ultimately be around the size of a grain of sand and will contain micro/nano sensors, computational ability, bi-directional wireless communications, and a power supply. There exist endless possibilities for the applications of these devices. The wireless sensing capabilities of Smart Dust, combined with its microscopic size give everything in the physical world the potential to be ‘smart’. Accordingly, the goal of this project was to complete a feasibility study of prototype Smart Dust motes for sensing and monitoring in advanced systems health monitoring in space flight applications.