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

这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发一种坚固的低成本、可靠的通用数据采集和控制系统，用于自主远程平台收集和传播恶劣环境下的气象和环境数据。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进行通信，并通过标准串行线以低数据速率进行通信。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（即插即用方法）的情况下使特定的传感器适应系统。这一数据获取系统的创新是利用先进的低地球轨道卫星进行远程指挥/控制和通过商业电子邮件或万维网从远程站点检索数据。潜在的应用包括商业专业人士和记者、电视网络、建筑工程师、地质学家、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.