Invisible, century-lasting sensors that think where no electronics can — bridging the physical and digital worlds to create the foundation for autonomous, intelligent environments.
(PRUnderground) October 16th, 2025
EPIC Semiconductors today unveiled Smart Dust, a sub-millimeter, self-powered semiconductor system that introduces a new era of deep-edge intelligence. Designed to operate where no electronics can survive, Smart Dust redefines sensing, processing, and connectivity — and stands poised to power the next industrial revolution.
Why the World Needs a Revolution at the Deep Edge
From manufacturing and energy to aerospace and defence, modern systems are limited by one fragile link: electronics that depend on power, cooling, and connectivity. In many environments — underground mines, deep oceans, nuclear zones, chemical plants, or space — heat, maintenance, or electromagnetic interference make conventional sensing impossible.
Even where sensors do work, they constantly flood data centers with raw, redundant information. The result: massive energy waste, high cost, and latency that limits autonomy. Smart Dust changes that equation entirely.
The Smart Dust Advantage
Each Smart Dust node is a battery-free, invisible, and self-powered micro-system that can sense, process, and communicate right where the data originates — even in extreme, isolated, or shielded conditions.
- No heat, no risk: Operates safely in environments where heat could trigger explosions or damage.
- No maintenance: Functions for decades — or centuries — without batteries, cooling, or servicing.
- No interference: Works in metallic, high-humidity, sub-zero, or Faraday-cage environments.
- No signature: No magnetic or RF footprint; impossible to jam, detect, or hack.
- No data overload: Processes data locally, transmitting only meaningful insights.
- Scalable: From one node to millions of autonomous units forming a self-organizing, intelligent network.
Smart Dust turns every environment — a bridge, a turbine, a vehicle, even a spacecraft — into a living system that senses, learns, and responds.
From Smart Sensors to a Living Intelligence Network
Smart Dust’s architecture is not a new product category — it’s a new computing layer.
Traditional sensors measure; Smart Dust thinks.
It performs intelligence in place, creating a distributed, invisible neural fabric embedded directly in the physical world.
By scaling from one node to millions, Smart Dust becomes a planetary-scale, maintenance-free supercomputer — operating continuously, silently, and sustainably.
Why It Can Power the Next Industrial Revolution
The first industrial revolution mechanized energy.
The second electrified production.
The third digitized information.
The fourth connected systems through networks and AI.
The fifth — powered by Smart Dust — embeds intelligence into matter itself.
Smart Dust eliminates the boundaries between physical and digital systems. It delivers AI that exists everywhere, not in cloud servers but inside the environment. The result: factories that heal themselves, infrastructure that reports its condition, vehicles that adapt in real time, and entire industries that operate without maintenance or energy cost.
“We are entering a time when computing no longer resides in chips or servers — it lives in the very fabric of our environment. Deep-edge sensing at the sub-millimeter scale is the architecture of that future.”
National Impact: A Leap in Technological Leadership
As the only company pioneering this class of technology, EPIC Semiconductors is opening a blue-ocean frontier with no global equivalent.
Smart Dust’s self-powered, zero-maintenance, zero-emission architecture represents a strategic foundation for energy-independent, resilient, and autonomous systems across industries.
This innovation can propel America and its allies into a new era of technological leadership, ensuring resilience in the face of power scarcity, data overload, and contested communication environments.
About EPIC Semiconductors
EPIC Semiconductors is a Canadian-based technology company pioneering a new category of energy-autonomous semiconductors purpose-built for mission-critical defense applications. Its Smart Dust platform integrates sensing, AI, energy harvesting, and secure communication — all without batteries, antennas, or RF transmission. Engineered for performance in metal-dense, underwater, and high-interference environments, EPIC’s technology enables real-time tracking, monitoring, and decision support where conventional systems fail. EPIC’s solutions are designed to strengthen situational awareness, operational readiness, and resilience across a wide range of defense and security scenarios.
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