SBIR Phase I: Autonomous Data Acquisition System Utilizing Low-Earth Orbit Satellite

9761168 HONG这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将开发一个坚固耐用的低成本、可靠、通用的数据采集和控制系统，用于自主远程平台收集和传播气象和环境数据。目标是通过模数转换板和数字输入/输出端口以高数据速率与各种仪器和传感器通信，而通过标准串行线以低数据速率与各种仪器和传感器通信。数据采集的设计理念是让科学用户在不修改系统硬件和软件的情况下使特定的传感器适应系统(即插即用方式)。这一数据采集系统的创新之处在于，利用先进的近地轨道卫星，通过商业电子邮件或万维网，对远程站点进行遥控/控制和数据检索。潜在的应用包括为商业专业人士和记者、电视网络、建筑工程师、地质学家、居住在人口稀少地区的人们、救灾行动以及航运、航空运输和卡车运输行业的简化通信。

9761168 Hoang This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a rugged low-cost, reliable, general purpose data acquisition and control system for autonomous remote platforms to collect and disseminate meteorological and environmental data harsh environments. An objective is to communicate with a variety of instruments and sensors at high data rates via analog-to-digital converter board and digital input/output ports and at low data rates via standard serial lines. The data acquisition design concept is to let the scientific users adapt specific sensors to the system without modification to the system hardware and software (plug-and-play-approach). The innovation of this data acquisition system is to use advanced low-earth orbit satellites for telecommand/control and data retrieval from remote sites through commercially available electronic mail or the world-wide-web. Potential applications include simplified communications for business professionals and reporters, for television networks, construction engineers, geologists, people living in thinly-populated areas, disaster relief operations, and in the shipping, air transport and trucking industries.