SBIR Phase II: Batteryless Wireless Smart Labels with Embedded Non Volatile Memory

SBIR 第二阶段：具有嵌入式非易失性存储器的无电池无线智能标签

• 批准号: 0956908
• 负责人: Navid Yazdi
• 金额: $ 46.38万
• 依托单位: Evigia Systems Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0956908&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Batteryless; Wireless

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project continues the development of a new class of wireless miniature smart sensor labels that continuously track and record exposure to the environmental conditions, and directly store the sensed data in digital CMOS non volatile memory (NVM) without requiring any battery. These CMOS-sensor chips are able to track temperature (-50°C to 70°C), humidity (5% to 100% RH), and shock/impact (50g to 250g), in a total volume of less than 1.5mm x 1.5mm x 0.7mm. The CMOS-sensor chip can be embedded in a standard passive radio frequency identification (RFID) inlay to form a fully integrated multi-sensor environmental condition tracking wireless device that is able to be deployed in a scalable RFID network. A multi-faceted innovative approach in MEMS devices and digital non-volatile memories enables the proposed CMOS-sensor chip. The temperature and humidity sensors fabricated and micropackage processes developed in Phase-I successfully demonstrate the technical feasibility and commercial viability of the proposed wireless smart sensor labels. The outcome of the proposed effort meets the form factor, functionality, and price-point requirements of embedded and widely-dispersed sensing, in a broad range of applications.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is on several existing industries, larger and more significant impacts on new markets and industries to be formed around this innovative and powerful technical ability. We believe that the existing live/bio material delivery segment can generate up to $500 million yearly sales for Evigia based on our technology directly reducing up to $1.4 billion of vaccine potency destruction each year, and saving up to $150 million yearly of blood plasma being destroyed during transportation. Commercial delivery logistics of sensitive/high-value goods and fresh produce is another large existing market where we can bring direct benefit up to $5 billion yearly in the US based on our smaller, lower cost, batteryless solution being included to monitor shipping quality in a far larger fraction of all packages being shipped in the US. The underlying technology of the proposed effort could be also potentiality employed in development of a broader family of advanced systems including improved diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) which affects millions of Americans annually through sports and other accidental injuries.

这个小型企业创新研究第二阶段项目继续开发新型无线微型智能传感器标签，这种标签可以持续跟踪和记录环境条件下的暴露，并直接将传感数据存储在数字CMOS非易失性存储器(NVM)中，而不需要任何电池。这些CMOS传感器芯片能够跟踪温度(-50°C到70°C)、湿度(5%到100%相对湿度)和冲击/冲击(50g到250g)，总体积小于1.5 mm x 1.5 mm x 0.7 mm。该cmos传感器芯片可以嵌入标准的无源射频识别(RFID)嵌体中，以形成能够部署在可扩展的RFID网络中的完全集成的多传感器环境条件跟踪无线设备。在MEMS器件和数字非易失性存储器方面的多方面创新方法使所提出的CMOS传感器芯片成为可能。在第一阶段制造的温度和湿度传感器以及开发的微封装工艺成功地证明了拟议的无线智能传感器标签的技术可行性和商业可行性。拟议的工作成果满足了嵌入式和广泛分散的传感在广泛应用中的外形因素、功能和价格点要求。该项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将对几个现有行业、对新市场和围绕这种创新和强大的技术能力形成的行业产生更大和更重大的影响。我们相信，基于我们的技术，现有的活/生物材料递送部门可以为Evigia带来高达5亿美元的年销售额，每年直接减少高达14亿美元的疫苗效力破坏，并每年节省高达1.5亿美元的血浆在运输过程中被破坏。敏感/高价值商品和新鲜农产品的商业递送物流是另一个巨大的现有市场，我们每年可以在美国带来高达50亿美元的直接收益，这是基于我们更小、更低成本、无电池的解决方案，以监控在美国运输的所有包裹中更大比例的运输质量。这项拟议努力的基础技术还可能被用于开发更广泛的先进系统家族，包括改进对轻度创伤性脑损伤(TBI)的诊断和治疗。每年，数百万美国人因运动和其他意外伤害而受到影响。