SBIR Phase I: IoT2:IoT Energy and Power Systems

SBIR 第一阶段：IoT2：物联网能源和电力系统

• 批准号: 1722404
• 负责人: Mark Bachman
• 金额: $ 22.43万
• 依托单位: XIDAS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1722404&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; IoT2; IoT; Energy

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be to demonstrate a new way of integrating energy harvesting technologies in standard electronic circuits. This offers the opportunity to produce small sensors and devices in remote locations that can collect information, monitor conditions, and transmit data without the need to replace batteries. Small batteries are unsuitable for electronics that are remotely deployed, driving interest to harvest electrical energy directly from the movement and vibration of machinery. Currently, energy harvesting is too large, expensive, and inefficient for practical deployment. If energy harvesting can be made small and inexpensive, it can enable a large suite of products and services for industrial, civil, and agricultural remote monitoring. This project offers the potential to bring energy harvesting to electronics in a way that allows highly efficient energy conversion from vibrating or moving machinery, while maintaining small size and low cost. The ability to embed tiny moving parts directly within printed circuits is highly innovative, and dynamic energy harvesting is an excellent application of this technology. The patented manufacturing processes can be performed using domestic electronics manufacturing infrastructure helping to bring next-generation manufacturing to the U.S.The proposed project seeks to demonstrate a new way to embed dynamic energy harvesting devices directly within printed circuit boards, enabling micro energy production at low cost and small size. The project builds on patented manufacturing processes that leverages conventional electronics manufacturing infrastructure?devices can be built having feature sizes in microns without the need for expensive silicon fabrication foundries. The project will explore designs and fabrication processes for small, efficient vibrating units, culminating in the production of multiple devices in a single small footprint circuit board. Significant effort will be on the development of small, efficient vibrating units that can be manufactured cheaply and in large quantities, yet embedded directly within printed circuits. Three manufacturing rounds are anticipated, producing real devices that can be experimentally tested and measured. The successful completion of this project will demonstrate electrical energy production in a small printed circuit board (approximately the size of a credit card), targeting 100 microwatts to power sensing and telemetry electronics.

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将是展示一种将能量收集技术集成到标准电子电路中的新方法。这为在偏远地区生产小型传感器和设备提供了机会，这些传感器和设备可以收集信息、监控条件和传输数据，而不需要更换电池。小型电池不适合远程部署的电子设备，这激发了人们从机械的运动和振动中直接获取电能的兴趣。目前，能源收集的规模太大、成本太高、效率低下，不利于实际部署。如果能使能源收集变得小而便宜，它就能为工业、民用和农业远程监测提供大量的产品和服务。该项目提供了将能量收集应用到电子设备中的潜力，这种方式允许从振动或移动的机械中高效地转换能量，同时保持小尺寸和低成本。将微小的运动部件直接嵌入印刷电路的能力是高度创新的，动态能量收集是这项技术的极好应用。获得专利的制造工艺可以使用有助于将下一代制造引入美国的国内电子制造基础设施来执行。拟议的项目旨在展示一种将动态能量收集设备直接嵌入印刷电路板的新方法，从而实现低成本和小尺寸的微能量生产。该项目建立在专利制造工艺的基础上，利用传统的电子制造基础设施-可以制造具有微米特征尺寸的设备，而不需要昂贵的硅制造工厂。该项目将探索小型、高效振动单元的设计和制造工艺，最终在单个小面积电路板中生产多个设备。将在开发小型高效振动单元方面做出重大努力，这种单元可以廉价地大量制造，但直接嵌入印刷电路中。预计将有三轮制造，生产可以进行实验测试和测量的真实设备。该项目的成功完成将展示在一块小型印刷电路板(大约一张信用卡大小)中产生电能，目标是为传感和遥测电子设备供电100微瓦。