Intel’s Tiny Hope for the Future

November 25, 2003 | Source: Wired

Intel is thinking even smaller: tiny sensor chips that network with each other — inside everything on earth.

It foresees networks consisting of thousands of motes, located wherever there’s a need for data collection, streaming real-time data to one another and to central servers.

The goal is to halve the size and price of a mote (a tiny sensor, transmitter and antenna to communicate with other motes) every 18 months, which would result in units about the size of a grain of rice and selling for around $5 by 2011.