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

SBIR/STTRERC合作提案：#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；国家科学基金会主任Yogesh Giancandani邀请当前小企业创新研究和小企业技术转让第二阶段受赠者与工程研究中心(ERC)进行合作研究。这一合作努力的目标是提供一个互惠互利的研究和商业化平台，在这个平台上，SBIR/STTR第二阶段受赠者可以与ERC的教职员工、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/或加快ERC进步向市场的过渡。根据NSF征集NSF 10-617的要求，Evigia Systems，Inc.已提交了额外资金的申请。资金申请中确定的次要获奖者是密歇根大学。该提案符合征集NSF 10-617的要求。在试图通过收集与环境变化相关的能量来利用记录的环境变化的过程中，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的带有嵌入式非易失性存储器的无电池传感器标签结合在一起。这种微系统的发展与目前在世界信息系统中进行的研究是协同的。ERC开发的超低功率无线电路技术如果不与低功率传感和电子技术相结合，将不会提供相对于竞争技术的广泛优势。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步需求，因为这些电路模块主导着无电池操作的功耗，但如果不保持相对于竞争技术和解决方案的更长距离的操作，这些电路模块将无法长期占据市场地位。远距离无电源无线传感器具有清晰而引人注目的用途。从物体跟踪到环境和基础设施监测，都有确定的市场和需求。将芯片短暂运行所需的少量能量存储在MEMS隔离的片上电容器上的建议，如果不是完全新颖的话，是一个很好的设计选择。建议使用沃尔顿电压倍增器在一段时间内从即使是微弱的射频辐射场收集能量，这是对现有概念在新应用中的极好重用。这项建议牢牢地建立在发达的工程学之上。该提案有可能为消费者和工业用户提供改进的传感器。这种传感器可以存储和报告产品的健康状况，从而减少浪费，改善交付系统的物流。学生和教职员工将通过与SBIR公司的互动获得宝贵的经验。学生将从使用实际的工业流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.