Stanford Engineer Aims to Connect the World with Ant-Sized Radios
September 10th, 2014Via: Stanford:
A Stanford engineering team has built a radio the size of an ant, a device so energy efficient that it gathers all the power it needs from the same electromagnetic waves that carry signals to its receiving antenna – no batteries required.
Designed to compute, execute and relay commands, this tiny wireless chip costs pennies to fabricate – making it cheap enough to become the missing link between the Internet as we know it and the linked-together smart gadgets envisioned in the “Internet of Things.”
“The next exponential growth in connectivity will be connecting objects together and giving us remote control through the web,” said Amin Arbabian, an assistant professor of electrical engineering who recently demonstrated this ant-sized radio chip at the VLSI Technology and Circuits Symposium in Hawaii.
Much of the infrastructure needed to enable us to control sensors and devices remotely already exists: We have the Internet to carry commands around the globe, and computers and smartphones to issue the commands. What’s missing is a wireless controller cheap enough to so that it can be installed on any gadget anywhere.
“How do you put a bi-directional wireless control system on every lightbulb?” Arbabian said. “By putting all the essential elements of a radio on a single chip that costs pennies to make.”
Cost is critical because, as Arbabian observed, “We’re ultimately talking about connecting trillions of devices.”
So the concept is similar to the Nanites?
Nanites Awakening
http://youtu.be/5bTiujMwYcc
But what happens when the sun ‘farts’ extreme like the events unfolding as I type?
STORM WARNING: A pair of CMEs is heading for Earth. The two solar storm clouds were launched on Sept. 9th and 10th by strong explosions in the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2158. NOAA forecasters estimate a nearly 80% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on Sept. 12th when the first of the two CMEs arrives. Auroras are in the offing, possibly visible at mid-latitudes before the weekend..
EARTH-DIRECTED X-FLARE AND CME: Sunspot AR2158 erupted on Sept. 10th at 17:46 UT, producing an X1.6-class solar flare. A flash of ultraviolet radiation from the explosion ionized the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere, disturbing HF radio communications for more than an hour. More importantly, the explosion hurled a CME directly toward Earth. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory photographed the expanding cloud:
http://www.spaceweather.com/
btw … somewhat a side topic but the current CME blast is perfect cover for a 13th anniversary false flag event. Something like 11 stolen planes blasting EMP devices over strategic EU/American & Israeli targets … just kidding.
double btw – Isis, the Brilliant One, the Golden Sun Goddess – of ancient times.
So It Goes
http://www.suspicious0bservers.org
@ LoneWolf, check out Suspicious Observers along with Spaceweather – great coverage.