A new class of semiconductors that combine sensing, energy harvesting, and embedded AI in chips smaller than a grain of sand grabbed the attention at DSEI 2025.
Vancouver, Canada-based Epic Semiconductors’ Smart Dust is engineered for all-domain operations where traditional electronics cannot survive. Unlike conventional sensors that depend on batteries, RF emissions, or cooling systems, Smart Dust functions with zero operational burden.
It requires no maintenance, logistics, or infrastructure, yet operates continuously and invisibly.
The system is immune to jamming and spoofing, with no detectable RF signature, ensuring resilience in the most contested environments.
Operating underground, underwater, and even through shielding, Smart Dust creates an unjammable, untraceable, and infinitely scalable sensing mesh.
It confirms presence, detects tampering, and synchronizes edge nodes with real-time timing and network-wide synchronized clocking—enabling a new layer of mission assurance.
Key advantages of Smart Dust include:
- Always active, never detected — stealth sensing without emissions.
- All-domain deployment — underground, underwater, shielded, or denied zones.
- Resilient and unjammable — immune to interference and spoofing.
- Perpetual operation — battery-free, magnetic-free, and RF-free by design.
EPIC boasts 20+ granted patents and successful international validation, and Smart Dust has been independently reviewed for safety, spectrum compliance, and interoperability.
Each chip is fabricated on a 65nm process by TSMC. Smart Dust is ISO-certified with verified thermal, electrical, and ESD reliability.
