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Smart Dust. Kris Pister Prof. EECS, UC Berkeley Co-Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center Founder & Chief Technologist, Dust Networks. Outline. Background Berkeley Research Market Requirements Current Status Startup Related People Funding Advisors Standards.
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Smart Dust Kris Pister Prof. EECS, UC Berkeley Co-Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center Founder & Chief Technologist, Dust Networks
Outline • Background • Berkeley Research • Market Requirements • Current Status • Startup Related • People • Funding • Advisors • Standards
Autonomous Microsensor Networks with Optical Communication Links UC Berkeley, 1997 • PI: Kris Pister • Source: Hughes (MICRO) • Funding: $25k, $10k matching, 0% ovhd, • Duration: 1 year • Comments: Collaboration w/ Prof. Joe Kahn under separate MICRO
COTS Dust UC Berkeley, 2000 GOAL: • Get our feet wet RESULT: • Cheap, easy, off-the-shelf RF systems • Fantastic interest in cheap, easy, RF: • Industry • Berkeley Wireless Research Center • Center for the Built Environment (IUCRC) • PC Enabled Toys (Intel) • Fantastic RF problems • Optical proof of concept
Berkeley Demos – 2001 Motes dropped from UAV, detect vehicles, log and report direction and velocity Intel Developers Forum, live demo 800 motes, 8 level dynamic network, 50 temperature sensors for HVAC deployed in 3 hours. $100 vs. $800 per node. Seismic testing demo: real-time data acquisition, $200 vs. $5,000 per node vs.
Mote on a Chip? (circa 2001) antenna uP SRAM Temp inductor Amp Radio ADC ~2 mm^2 ASIC crystal battery • Goals: • Standard CMOS • Low power • Minmal external components
UCB Hardware Results ~2003 • 2 chips fabbed in 0.25um CMOS • “Mote on a chip” worked, TX only • 900 MHz transceiver worked • Records set for low power CMOS • ADC, Mike Scott, M.S. • 8 bits, 100kS/s • 2uA@1V • Microprocessor, Brett Warneke, PhD. • 8 bits, 1MIP • 10uA@1V • 900 MHz radio – Al Molnar M.S. • 100kbps, “bits in, bits out” • 20 m indoors • 0.4mA @ 3V
Sensor Networks Take Off! Industry Analysts Take Off! $8.1B market for Wireless Sensor Networks in 2007 Source: InStat/MDR 11/2003 (Wireless); Wireless Data Research Group 2003; InStat/MDR 7/2004 (Handsets)
Low Data Rate WPAN Applications PERSONAL HEALTH CARE Zigbee 2004 Zigbee 2006 Zigbee Pro BUILDING AUTOMATION CONSUMER ELECTRONICS security HVAC AMR lighting control accesscontrol TV VCR DVD/CD remote PC & PERIPHERALS INDUSTRIAL CONTROL asset mgt process control environmental energy mgt mouse keyboard joystick RESIDENTIAL/ LIGHT COMMERCIAL CONTROL patient monitoring fitness monitoring security HVAC lighting control access control lawn & garden irrigation
Barriers to Adoption OnWorld, 2005
Dust Networks • Founded July 2002 • Focused on reliability, power consumption • Developed TSMP • Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol • >99.9% reliability • Lowest power per delivered packet
Dust sells reliable low-power network solutions to OEMs 2006 HART demo participants • ABB • Elpro • Emerson • Endress & Hauser • Honeywell • MACTek • Pepperl & Fuchs • Phoenix Contact • Siemens • Smar • Yokogawa Wireless HART, ISA Expo, Oct. 2006
Parking Monitoring – Streetline Networks Wireless sensor node • Real-time monitoring of parking for: • Increased enforcement • Dynamic pricing • Real-time vacancy location services
Reliable Performance in Harsh Environments • Steel mills • Breweries! • Chemical processing • Food production • Urban Pavement • Rail cars • Power plants • Pharmaceutical manufacturing • Desert fences • Northern coal facilities • Oil and gas production & refining • … These and other factors conspire to define the difference between what works in the lab and what works in the real world! Successful deployments in over 30 countries on 6 continents.
People • People:Funding Chicken:Egg • It’s hard to get good people until you have funding. • It’s hard to get funding until you have good people. • Expect turmoil • Founding Team • “Now if your VP gets divorced, you’ll be right on track” • Houses, spouses, offspring
Funding • Angels • Government • Venture Capital • Valuation and equity
Advisors • If you listen hard enough, the wind sings every song • You must do X you must not do X X = { • Go vertical, go horizontal • Bring IP out of university • Create a standard • Take funding from Y={angels, VC, government, companies} • Write a business plan • …} • Best advice • You will run into these people again. Act accordingly.
Standards • Markets create standards • Standards don’t create markets • Standards can accelerate (or retard) markets • Good and bad standards • “Coming soon” can be fatal to a startup • Dust experience • HART Communication Foundation • ISA100 • IEEE • IETF
Berkeley “smart dust” Startups • Adura • Arch Rock • Crossbow • Dust Networks • Federspiel Controls • Fruition Sciences • Sensys Networks • Sentilla • Streetline Networks • Wireless Industrial Technologies • …