Motes, or smart dust, are floating sub-millimeter electronics devices equipped with sensors and connected to the InterMesh. Due to their size they have limited onboard compute and so rely much more on networked intelligence for decision making than larger drones. Research into smart dust had received large amounts of funding from the start of the final century BFC due to the need to monitor for unauthorized fabs, but the first design capable of widespread deployment was not developed until the 70s due to better energy scavenging circuity which was developed out of the quantum chemical breakthroughs of the previous decade.