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take a fragment grenade type scatter mechnism to toss into a sizeable area of forest or urban jungle of your choice.
use information transfered by wireless signals sent by all the small motion sensors to create a motion image of the area subject to surveillance.....a way to increase knowledge of
the opposing teams motion in a war or simulation battle. also a way to track people's motion generally.
the ballz have to be very small and scatterable by the millions , the larger the area, and the more complex the terrain the more scattering is required.
it would be ideal if the ballz had some limited mechnaism to allow them sufficient mobility to 'walk away from each other' to maximize the average maximum distance between all the ballz scattered in the area. , maybe they could even hide in cracks and shadows and such. to avoid being found and or accidentally destroyed by animals, people and rain and whatever.
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I imagine that this could be tiny solar powered microchips which are dusted across the surface. They detect by capacitance changes, and communicate by sending a unique number to the next chip, which relays this if it didn't already get this number for a certain time (to stop echos). The relayed message finally gets to the receiver, if you sprinkle the chips all the way to where you are. The geography of the chips is tested by sending a trial pulse and checking time to live, and time of flight. The numbers could be encrypted to prevent eavesdroppers.
OK, that's probably full of holes, but it's what was immediately in my mind. |
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I can foresee the microchips sending messages like chain mail (chip A sends his message to his closest neighbours which is then sent to their neighbours etc). this might be a good thing (redundancy) but it might get complicated when many of motion sensors are detecting things. |
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My communication scheme would have the microchips flashing with high intensity laser (maybe in IR) when they detect motion. A high resolution camera in a blimp would capture all the flickering lasers to determine where movement is occuring. |
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