PROPOSAL NUMBER: | 06 O2.02-9970 |
SUBTOPIC TITLE: | Space Transportation Propulsion System and Test Facility Requirements and Instrumentation |
PROPOSAL TITLE: | Health-enabled Smart Sensor Fusion Technology |
SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN
(Firm Name, Mail Address, City/State/Zip, Phone)
Mobitrum Corporation
8070 Georgia Avenue, Suite 209
Silver Spring, MD 20910-4973
(301) 585-4040
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR/PROJECT MANAGER
(Name, E-mail, Mail Address, City/State/Zip, Phone)
Ray Wang
rwang@mobitrum.com
8070 Georgia Avenue, Suite 209
Silver Spring, MD 20910-4973
(301) 585-4040
TECHNICAL ABSTRACT ( Limit 2000 characters, approximately 200 words)
It has been proven that the combination of smart sensors with embedded metadata and wireless technologies present real opportunities for significant improvements in reliability, cost-benefits, and safety for remote testing and measurement. Adding robust and self-construct network protocol for routing will further simplify testing installation process and increase test network reliability. While the idea of largely autonomous sensors is desirable, there are many issues of cooperation and control that need to be addressed. Specifically, the sensor fusion and the schema of smart sensor attributes: prediction, planning, updating, communication, and assimilation. The IEEE 1451 standard provides a basic communications link for sensors, but provides no methods specific to programming a sensor's data processing resources for data fusion. Combining IEEE 1451 and networked database, as well as health-enabled smart sensor fusion technology enables user to interface to sensor network to provide dynamic programming and access/monitor the health of sensor nodes. The sensor fusion technology is built upon an open-system architecture with standardized protocol modules/stacks such as SQL, HTML, XML, MATLAB, and LabVIEW.
POTENTIAL NASA COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS ( Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words)
Ground testing of propulsion systems is a critical requirement to enable NASA's New Vision for space exploration. The proposed health-enabled smart sensor fusion technology will enable a cost effective remote testing and health monitoring through shared sensor networks. Mobitrum anticipates the following applications that NASA will benefit from the proposed technology: (1) Data analysis, processing, and visualization for Earth science observations; (2) Rocket engine test; (3) Remote test facility management; (4) Field communications device for spatial data input, manipulation and distribution; (5) Sensor, measurement, and field verification applications; (6) RFID for identification and tracking; (7) Condition-aware applications; (8) Location-aware applications; (9) Biometric identification applications; (10) Data collaboration and distribution applications; and (11) Wireless instrumentation for robotic manipulation and positioning for audio and visual capture, and real-time multimedia representation.
POTENTIAL NON-NASA COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS ( Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words)
Mobitrum expects smart sensor technology will enable more home applications for energy control and security monitoring provided by Internet service providers as value-add services. In order to be deployable by service providers, the smart sensor and fusion technologies have to be embedded within home appliances that have networking capability for remote monitoring and control over Internet. The proposed health-enabled smart sensor fusion technology may apply to one of the following applications: (1) Home control; (2) Energy management for cost saving; (3) Security (intruder detection); (4) Safety (sensing); (5) Utility ? remote meter reading; (6) Building automation systems ? real-time monitoring and control of security and surveillance systems, alarms, HVAC; (7) Manufacturing and distribution ? industrial automation using RFID; and (8) Health care ? wireless monitoring equipment.
NASA's technology taxonomy has been developed by the SBIR-STTR program to disseminate awareness of proposed and awarded R/R&D in the agency. It is a listing of over 100 technologies, sorted into broad categories, of interest to NASA. |
TECHNOLOGY TAXONOMY MAPPING
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Aircraft Engines Airport Infrastructure and Safety Architectures and Networks Attitude Determination and Control Autonomous Control and Monitoring Autonomous Reasoning/Artificial Intelligence Biochemical Biomolecular Sensors Computational Materials Computer System Architectures Data Acquisition and End-to-End-Management Data Input/Output Devices Database Development and Interfacing Expert Systems Feed System Components Fundamental Propulsion Physics General Public Outreach Gravitational Guidance, Navigation, and Control High-Energy Human-Computer Interfaces Human-Robotic Interfaces In-situ Resource Utilization Instrumentation Integrated Robotic Concepts and Systems Intelligence K-12 Outreach Large Antennas and Telescopes Launch Assist (Electromagnetic, Hot Gas and Pneumatic) Manipulation Manned-Manuvering Units Microwave/Submillimeter Mission Training Mobility Modular Interconnects Multifunctional/Smart Materials On-Board Computing and Data Management Operations Concepts and Requirements Perception/Sensing Pilot Support Systems Portable Data Acquisition or Analysis Tools Portable Life Support Power Management and Distribution RF Sensor Webs/Distributed Sensors Simulation Modeling Environment Software Development Environments Software Tools for Distributed Analysis and Simulation Spaceport Infrastructure and Safety Structural Modeling and Tools Telemetry, Tracking and Control Testing Facilities Testing Requirements and Architectures Tools Training Concepts and Architectures Ultra-High Density/Low Power Wireless Distribution |