Advantages of Smart Dust

According to Kris Pister's founder of dustnetworks, the 3 benefits for organizations to use smart dust is that:

1. It can reduce systems and infrastructure costs
2. Increase employee productivity
3. Improve safety and compliance in the workplace

The advantages of using smart dust in any business organization for employees is that it leads to job satisfaction. Having smart dust in company improves hygiene factors for employees because instead of always having to remember to turn off the lights or the heating whenever they live their area in order to save costs for the company smart dust can do it for them.

As for the advantages of using smart dust in factories is that it can be used to:

-Monitor productivity so that engineers are able to make machinery more efficient.

-Control the variables in productivity more accurately, for example instead of cooling a machine by the look an feel of the machine you can put in sensors so that it can cool the machine down to acceptable temperatures.

-Minimize the amount of defective products that come off of assembly

The advantages of smart dust are limitless, there is an advantegeous use for smart dust to almost anything the human mind can think of.


Sources:
http://www.innovationwatch-archive.com/choiceisyours/choiceisyours.2006.12.15.htm
http://eetdnews.lbl.gov/nl23/eetd-nl23-2-dust.html
http://www.dustnetworks.com/applications/building_automation