PROPOSAL NUMBER: | 06 A4.01-9960 |
SUBTOPIC TITLE: | Test Measurement Technology |
PROPOSAL TITLE: | Autonomous Facility Health-Enabled Test Instrumentation |
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)
The combination of smart devices and embedded metadata and networked (wire and wireless) technologies present real opportunities for significant improvements in reliability, cost-benefits, and safety for remote testing, performance measurement, and facility management. Adding robust and autonomous network protocol for routing will further simplify testing installation process and increase test facility reliability. However, the realization of a practical autonomous facility test system requires the synthesis of several technologies. One must bring together knowledge in the fields of sensors, data processing, distributed systems, and networks. Mobitrum proposes to develop "an autonomous facility health-enabled test instrumentation" for characterization and measurement of ground test facilities. The proposed device includes: (1) facility health-enabled sensor, (2) signal conditioning and analog-to-digital (digital-to-analog) conversion, (3) microprocessor, (4) on-board memory (e.g., Flash or EEPROM) for metadata storage and executable software, and (5) embedded network interfaces to create a powerful, scalable, re-configurable, and reliable distributed test instrument. Autonomous facility health-enabled test instrumentation is built upon an open-system architecture with standardized protocol modules easily to interface with industry standards.
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 visual sensor test instrumentation will enable a cost effective remote testing and health monitoring through wireless sensor network. Mobitrum anticipates the following applications that NASA will benefit from the proposed technology: 1) Data analysis, processing, and visualization for Space exploration and 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)
We believe the application of smart embedded test data acquisition device will have tremendous potential for commercial market. That is because global revenues for smart pressure, flow, force/load, and temperature sensors with signal conditioning/amplification capability collectively totaled about $3.4 billion, according to SBD's latest data. We anticipate the embedded data acquisition and health-monitoring device will enable more home applications for energy control and security monitoring provided by Internet service providers through value-add services. Commercial applications are: 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, etc., 7) Manufacturing and distribution ? industrial automation using RFID, 8) Health care ? wireless monitoring equipments.
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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Airport Infrastructure and Safety
Architectures and Networks Autonomous Control and Monitoring Computational Materials Computer System Architectures Data Acquisition and End-to-End-Management Data Input/Output Devices Database Development and Interfacing Expert Systems General Public Outreach Human-Computer Interfaces Human-Robotic Interfaces Instrumentation Intelligence K-12 Outreach Mission Training Mobility Multifunctional/Smart Materials On-Board Computing and Data Management Operations Concepts and Requirements Perception/Sensing Portable Data Acquisition or Analysis Tools Portable Life Support RF Sensor Webs/Distributed Sensors Simulation Modeling Environment Software Tools for Distributed Analysis and Simulation Spaceport Infrastructure and Safety Telemetry, Tracking and Control Testing Facilities Testing Requirements and Architectures Tools Training Concepts and Architectures Ultra-High Density/Low Power Waste Processing and Reclamation Wireless Distribution |