After over a decade of work around Telos-like mote platforms, recent trends in miniaturization seem to be enabling a
renaissance of the original smart dust vision. A notable case in point is the Michigan Micro Mote project [5], whose ambitious
goal is the design of a novel cubic-mm sensor node with a power draw in the order of tens of nW capable of periodic data
delivery on a timescale of a few minutes over a multihop network. Nanotechnologies are also poised to contribute to the
smart dust vision [8]. Nanosensors have been used for several years in bio and chemical sensing applications, and recent
advances are paving the way to nanoscale sensor networks [25].