SBIR Phase II: New 5G and internet-of-things systems for tracking and identification in shipping

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将推进新的实时跟踪技术，以提高效率并降低全球集装箱运输的成本。 集装箱航运业是现代供应链的基础，代表着一个价值15 B美元的市场。 该解决方案将5G物联网引入到全球航运跟踪中，通过在肮脏、复杂和高度杂乱的维修设施和集装箱码头环境中展示性能。该项目的智力价值将是继续探索后向散射毫米波射频识别（RFID）。 用于定位和通信。 此外，尽管用于标准超高频RFID定位系统的硬件和标准已经从数十年的改进中受益，但适用于更高频率方法的方法几乎未被探索，并且具有完全不同的挑战。这项工作将推进标签和阅读器的硬件和软件，其次是优化标准的并行定位和通信与毫米波反向散射标签。最后，该项目将对mm-RFID系统的机械和功能性能进行验证和确认。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will advance new real-time tracking technologies that increase the efficiency and reduce the costs of container shipping across the world. The container shipping industry underpins the modern supply chain and represents a $1.5 B market. The proposed solution introduces 5G internet-of-things to tracking in worldwide shipping by demonstrating performance in the dirty, complex, and highly-cluttered environments of repair facilities and terminals crowded with container stacks.The intellectual merit of this project will be the continued exploration of backscattered mm-wave radio frequency identification (RFIDs) for localization and communication. In addition, although hardware and standards used for standard ultra-high frequency RFID-based localization systems have benefited from decades of improvements, methods appropriate for higher-frequency methods are virtually unexplored and feature radically different challenges. This effort will advance the tag and reader hardware and software, followed by optimization of the standard for the concurrent localization and communications with mm-wave backscatter tags. Finally, the project will conduct verification and validation of the mm-RFID system's mechanical and functional performance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.