SBIR Phase II: Material Adjusted Signature Tags for Cradle-to-Grave Inventory Applications

SBIR 第二阶段：用于从摇篮到坟墓库存应用的材料调整签名标签

• 批准号: 2136796
• 负责人: Brandon Young
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: PASCAL TAGS INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2136796&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Material; Adjusted

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project improves inventory management. An estimated $818 billion is lost annually due to incomplete knowledge of a company’s inventory. The problem occurs because of the absence of a label at manufacturing that survives through the supply chain (retail, logistics, and end user). Currently, traditional supply chain management forces a company to add at least one new tag at each step. This project will reduce the number of tags per product, exponentially decrease waste, increase supply chain efficiency, and prevent knockoffs or counterfeits from being added to the supply chain. All of this will help businesses run more effectively, better serve customers, and enable consumers to gain detailed knowledge of their purchases.The intellectual merit of this project is development of the first commercially viable, cradle-to-grave inventory tag through optimization and scalability tasks. The innovation is a chipless inventory tag with a unique serial number for every product to provide the cradle-to-grave functionality. The underlying Material Adjusted Signature Tag (MAST) technology uses printable materials to create a unique radio frequency (RF) signal. The MAST tags will enable direct printing or application of a tag onto a product, allowing an efficient way to reliably identify, track, and attribute data to a product throughout its life. This project will improve the tag’s data potential, optimize manufacturability, and achieve greater readability. Beyond optimization and scalability milestones, this project will test the tags, readers, and manufacturing equipment in relevant environments.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.

这个小企业创新研究第二阶段项目改善了库存管理。 据估计，由于对公司库存的不完全了解，每年损失8180亿美元。 问题的发生是因为在制造过程中没有标签，而标签在整个供应链（零售、物流和最终用户）中都能存活。目前，传统的供应链管理迫使公司在每一步至少添加一个新标签。该项目将减少每个产品的标签数量，成倍减少浪费，提高供应链效率，并防止假冒或假冒产品被添加到供应链中。所有这些都将帮助企业更有效地运行，更好地服务客户，并使消费者能够获得他们购买的详细信息。该项目的智力价值是通过优化和可扩展性任务开发第一个商业上可行的，从摇篮到坟墓的库存标签。创新是一个无芯片的库存标签与一个独特的序列号为每一个产品，以提供从摇篮到坟墓的功能。底层的材料调整签名标签（MAST）技术使用可打印材料来创建独特的射频（RF）信号。MAST标签将使标签能够直接打印或应用到产品上，从而在产品的整个生命周期中提供可靠的识别，跟踪和属性数据的有效方法。该项目将提高标签的数据潜力，优化可制造性，并实现更大的可读性。除了优化和可扩展性里程碑，该项目还将在相关环境中测试标签，阅读器和制造设备。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。