SBIR Phase I: Virtual Fences for Sustainable Protection

SBIR 第一阶段：可持续保护的虚拟围栏

• 批准号: 1648337
• 负责人: Kenneth Parker
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: The Samraksh Company
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-15 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1648337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Virtual; Fences; Sustainable

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project comes from addressing a demand in many parts of the world for a scalable technological solution for managers of nature resources to deal with human-animal conflicts and rapid deforestation. Natural resources have large and sometimes surprising ecosystem impact. Even the direct economic value of individual wildlife and forest reserves is often in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Operationally relevant protection technologies that are sustainable can serve as an import tool in effective management. Having a low total cost of ownership and effectively co-existing with conventional human surveillance methods is key to sustainability. We seek to commercialize a protection system that is sustainable as it offers low cost, long lived devices, ease of use and maintenance, robust performance across diverse natural environments, and stealthy operation. It also augments accountability of the guards, and automates tasks such as notifying management and sharing forensic evidence of incidents in settings where communication infrastructure is not readily available.The proposed project addresses the challenge with reducing energy consumption for our battery powered, radar device based, mesh network solution for persistent, time-sensitive protection of natural resources. Commercial impact for the proposed system can only be realized if the sensor is low-power, the data driven machine learning based signal processing is low-power, and the wide area networking is low-power. Addressing all these will unlock commercial value, but the impact is limited by the least efficient part of the system. Today the radar's efficiency is the essential bottleneck in system performance; it consumes about 40 milliWatts (mW). Reducing the radar's consumption to 5mW would double, and reducing it to 1mW would at least triple, the time between battery changes. The proposed effort would design, implement, and validate power reduction in the radar subsystem and integrate the result into an overall system. The largest technical risk in the plan is the Radio Frequency subsystem, which will therefore be addressed in Phase I. Phase II will implement power reductions in all the other radar subsystems, integrate the results into a coherent sensor, and integrate that sensor into the overall system. This integration into the larger system will also deal with whole system optimizations.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力来自于解决世界许多地方对自然资源管理者可扩展技术解决方案的需求，以处理人畜冲突和快速森林砍伐。自然资源对生态系统的影响很大，有时甚至令人惊讶。即使是个别野生动物和森林保护区的直接经济价值也往往是数亿美元。可持续的实用保护技术可作为有效管理的重要工具。拥有较低的总拥有成本并与传统的人类监控方法有效共存是可持续性的关键。我们寻求将可持续的保护系统商业化，因为它提供低成本，长寿命的设备，易于使用和维护，在不同的自然环境中具有强大的性能，以及隐形操作。它还增强了警卫的问责制，并自动执行任务，例如在通信基础设施不方便的情况下通知管理层和共享事件的法医证据。拟议的项目解决了我们的电池供电，基于雷达设备的网状网络解决方案的挑战，以减少能源消耗，实现对自然资源的持久，时间敏感的保护。只有当传感器是低功耗的，基于数据驱动机器学习的信号处理是低功耗的，并且广域网是低功耗的，才能实现所提出的系统的商业影响。解决所有这些问题将释放商业价值，但其影响受到系统中效率最低部分的限制。今天，雷达的效率是系统性能的重要瓶颈;它消耗约40毫瓦（mW）。将雷达的功耗降低到5 mW将增加一倍，降低到1 mW将至少增加两倍，电池更换之间的时间。拟议的工作将设计、实施和验证雷达子系统中的功率降低，并将结果集成到整个系统中。计划中最大的技术风险是射频子系统，因此将在第一阶段加以解决。第二阶段将在所有其他雷达子系统中实现功率降低，将结果集成到相干传感器中，并将该传感器集成到整个系统中。这种集成到更大的系统中也将处理整个系统的优化。