Wireless Sensor Portal Technology

Mobitrum Corporation

Silver Spring, MD

A smart wireless/wired sensor portal for characterization and measurement for ground testing of propulsion systems. Future wide availability of smart sensors will significantly reduce the cost and time required to design, repair, or modify sensor systems through modular and re-configurable capability. The development of: (1) common sensor interface, (2) microprocessor, (3) wireless interface, (4) signal conditioning and ADC/DAC, and (5) on-board EEPROM for metadata storage and executable software to create powerful, scalable, re-configurable, and reliable distributed test instruments.

• University of Houston, College of Engineering Technology. Dr. Deniz Gurkan and her graduate students at University of Houston have been using Mobitrum's wireless sensor portals to develop IEEE 1451 based smart sensor software and related technologies. Currently, Dr. Gurkan's laboratory integrated fifteen of the wireless sensor portal devices from Mobitrum Corporation and these devices formed a smart sensor network for advanced research and development in intelligent sensor applications.
• FAST (micro-gravity flight): In September of 2008, Mobitrum Corporation participated in microgravity research flights aboard commercially-owned aircraft to test wireless sensor hardware and technologies. These flights, on an airplane operated by the Zero Gravity Corporation, simulated the weightless conditions of space.
• Mobitrum Corporation was selected for an SBIR Phase III on July 9, 2008 to participate in the NASA Glenn Pilot Program for Transition Assistance to accelerate the infusion of the selected SBIR-developed technologies into NASA, and speed up the commercialization of dual-use technologies into related markets.

• Selling kits – Mobitrum has developed and marketed two products as the result of this SBIR: Mobee-EB-PXA270-v2 and Mobee-EB-CC2430-v2. Mobee-EB-PXA270 is a smart sensor network controller and Mobee-EB-CC2430 is a smart sensor transceiver to interface with analog sensors.
  

• Commercial applications of the proposed technology will address needs for Wireless USB based on Ultra-wideband technology and application for Ratio frequency identification (RFID).
  • The Ultra-wideband wireless systems allow for non-contact reading and are effective in manufacturing and other hostile environments where bar code labels could not survive.
  • RFID has established itself in a wide range of markets including smart badge, livestock identification and automated vehicle identification systems because of its ability to track moving objects.
• There is significant commercial potential in homeland security, disaster management, and coastal ecology management.

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Curator: SBIR Support                12/08/08