SBIR Phase I: SMART Repeaters: Sensor-Enabled Submarine Fiber Optic Repeaters for Multi-Scale and Multi-Use Monitoring and Observing

SBIR 第一阶段：智能中继器：用于多尺度和多用途监测和观测的传感器支持的海底光纤中继器

• 批准号: 2104205
• 负责人: Matthew Fouch
• 金额: $ 25.48万
• 依托单位: SUBSEA DATA SYSTEMS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2022-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2104205&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; SMART; Repeaters; Sensor

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will advance the proposed SMART (Sensor Monitoring and Reliable Telecommunications) prototype, designed as a best-in-class pressure, temperature, and seismic sensor system to be incorporated into new global submarine fiber optic cable networks. The expected commercial impacts are significant, as the customer base for SMART technology includes commercial submarine cable suppliers, government monitoring agencies, scientific consortia and agencies, and internet content providers. The development and deployment of SMART will enhance scientific understanding of Earth’s oceans, seafloor, and subsurface via a fundamentally new approach to long-term subsea sensor network deployments. SMART will therefore provide essential new data to reduce disaster risk and improve global climate understanding, thereby reducing societal and environmental vulnerabilities to these long- and short-term threats.The intellectual merit of this project is to develop the first integrated SMART prototype system. This innovative real-time deep ocean monitoring technology will catalyze fundamental improvements in Tsunami Early Warning (TEW), Earthquake Early Warning (EEW), global climate monitoring and telecommunications resiliency. The innovation is to tightly integrate sensors into the amplifiers (“repeaters”) used to boost signals in the optical fibers. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components will be utilized for nearly all physical elements of the system. The sensor assembly includes a 3-axis accelerometer, absolute pressure gauge, and temperature sensor, integrated with data acquisition circuits with suitable dynamic range and precision, a common communications module, an interface suitable for fiber optic cable spans up to 120 km in length, software and firmware necessary to support the data path, an isolated power source, and precision timing. The SMART repeater design is modular, allowing different sensors, adaptation to different repeater housings, or use as a standalone unit. Technical hurdles to be addressed include hardware development and integration, software development, data acquisition and processing, power management, communications bandwidth, and delivery of precision time and frequency references.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.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将推进拟议的SMART（传感器监测和可靠电信）原型，该原型被设计为同类最佳的压力、温度和地震传感器系统，并将其纳入新的全球海底光缆网络。预期的商业影响是显著的，因为SMART技术的客户群包括商业海底电缆供应商，政府监控机构，科学联盟和机构，以及互联网内容提供商。SMART的开发和部署将通过一种全新的长期海底传感器网络部署方法，增强对地球海洋、海底和地下的科学认识。因此，SMART将提供必要的新数据，以减少灾害风险，提高对全球气候的认识，从而减少社会和环境对这些长期和短期威胁的脆弱性。该项目的智力优势在于开发了第一个集成的SMART原型系统。这种创新的实时深海监测技术将促进海啸预警（TEW）、地震预警（EEW）、全球气候监测和电信弹性的根本性改进。创新之处在于将传感器紧密集成到放大器（“中继器”）中，用于增强光纤中的信号。商用现货（COTS）组件将用于系统的几乎所有物理元素。传感器组件包括一个3轴加速度计、绝对压力表和温度传感器，集成了具有合适动态范围和精度的数据采集电路、一个通用通信模块、一个适合长度达120公里的光纤电缆的接口、支持数据路径所需的软件和固件、一个隔离电源和精确定时。SMART中继器设计是模块化的，允许不同的传感器，适应不同的中继器外壳，或作为一个独立的单元使用。需要解决的技术障碍包括硬件开发和集成、软件开发、数据采集和处理、电源管理、通信带宽以及精确时间和频率参考的交付。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。