SBIR Phase II: ERC-Small Business: Long-Range Wireless Smart Sensor Labels

SBIR/STTR ERC协作提案：#1128726 SBIR PI：Navid Yazdi（Evigia Systems，Inc）;第二阶段提案#0956908; SBIR PD：Murali Nair ERC：无线集成微系统（WIMS）工程研究中心;密歇根大学;尤格什·吉安昌达尼，NSF主任邀请当前小企业创新研究和小企业技术转让的资金申请（SBIR/STTR）第二阶段的受赠者与工程研究中心（ERC）进行合作研究。这项合作努力的目标是提供一个互利的研究和商业化平台，SBIR/STTR第二阶段的受让人可以与ERC教师，研究人员和研究生进行合作研究，以加强他们公司的能力，和/或加速ERC进展向市场的过渡。根据NSF 10-617的要求，Evigia Systems，Inc.已提交额外资金申请。资助申请中确定的次级获奖者是密歇根大学。该提案符合招标NSF 10-617的要求。在试图通过收集与这种变化相关的能量来记录环境变化的过程中，拟议的合作工作探索了微系统的重要基本概念。该项目将密歇根大学无线集成微系统工程研究中心（WIMS）开发的远程超低能耗无线电路与Evigia的无电池传感器标签结合在一起，该标签具有嵌入式非易失性存储器。这种微系统的发展与目前在WIMS中进行的研究是协同的。ERC开发的超低功耗无线电路技术如果不与低功耗传感和电子技术相结合，将无法提供与竞争技术相比的广泛优势。Evigia开发的超低功耗无电池传感、数字存储器和电子技术将满足市场的初始需求，因为这些电路模块在无电池操作中占主导地位，但如果不保持较长的操作距离，随着时间的推移，将无法保持市场地位。远距离无动力无线传感器具有明确和引人注目的用途。从物体跟踪到环境和基础设施监测，都有明确的市场和需求。在MEMS隔离的片上电容器上存储芯片短时间运行所需的少量能量的建议即使不是完全新颖的，也是一个很好的设计选择。建议使用沃尔顿电压倍增器收集能量，即使是微弱的射频辐射场随着时间的推移是一个很好的重用现有的概念在一个新的应用。这项建议是以先进的工程技术为坚实基础的。该提案有可能为消费者和工业用户提供改进的传感器。该传感器可以存储和报告产品的健康状况，从而减少浪费并改善输送系统的物流。学生和教师将通过与SBIR公司的互动获得宝贵的经验。学生将从使用实际的工业过程中获得重要的经验，这将使他们能够在毕业后尽快为多学科团队做出贡献。

SBIR/STTR ERC Collaborative Proposal: #1128726 SBIR PI: Navid Yazdi (Evigia Systems, Inc); Phase II Proposal #0956908; SBIR PD: Murali Nair ERC: Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS) Engineering Research Center; University of Michigan; Yogesh Gianchandani, Director NSF invites funding requests from current Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase II grantees to perform collaborative research with an Engineering Research Center (ERC). The goals of this collaborative effort are to provide a mutually beneficial research and commercialization platform where SBIR/STTR Phase II grantees can perform collaborative research with ERC faculty, researchers, and graduate students, to strengthen the capacity of their firms, and/or speed the transition of ERC advances to the marketplace. In accordance with the NSF solicitation NSF 10-617, Evigia Systems, Inc has submitted a request for additional funding. The sub-awardee identified in the funding request is the University of Michigan. This proposal meets the requirements of the solicitation NSF 10-617. In attempting to use record environmental changes by scavenging the energy associated with such changes, the proposed collaborative work explores important fundamental concepts for microsystems. The project brings together the long-range ultra-low energy wireless circuits developed at the University of Michigan Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS) with Evigia's batteryless sensor labels with embedded non-volatile memory. The development of such Microsystems is synergistic with research now being pursued in WIMS. The ultra-low power wireless circuit technologies developed at ERC if not combined with low-power sensing and electronics will not provide the wide advantage over competing technologies. The ultra-low power batteryless sensing, digital memory and electronics technologies developed by Evigia will meet the initial demands of the market as these circuit blocks dominate the power consumption in batteryless operation, yet cannot hold the market position over time without maintaining a longer-range operation over competing technologies and solutions that will be introduced over time. Long range unpowered wireless sensors have clear and compelling uses. There is an identified market and need, from object tracking to environmental and infrastructure monitoring. The proposal to store the small amount of energy needed to run the chip for a short while on a MEMS isolated on-chip capacitor is, if not entirely novel, a good design choice. The suggestion of using a Walton voltage multiplier to gather energy from even weak RF radiation fields over time is an excellent reuse of an existent concept in a novel application. This proposal rests solidly on developed engineering. The proposal has the potential to give consumers and industrial users an improved sensor. This sensor can store and report the health of the product, thereby reducing waste and improving the logistics of the delivery system. Students and faculty members will gain valuable experience by interaction with an SBIR company. Students will gain important experience from using actual industrial processes that will make them able to contribute to a multi-discipline team as soon as they graduate.