STTR Phase I: Chemical Management System using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology

这个小型企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段项目将探索将射频识别（RFID）技术应用于时间和温度敏感材料库存管理的可行性，这些材料是目前在航空航天工业中广泛使用的预混合和冷冻（PMF）密封剂。该项目的主要目的是开发和实施分布式功率控制方案的RFID天线/阅读器，以克服读取速率的问题，这是一个主要的障碍，在前面的RFID实现在今天的工业。该研究项目为航空航天工业的一个主要问题提供了解决方案;由于过期的PMF密封剂每年造成数百万美元的损失。利用RFID技术与目前的做法将提供近实时的PMF密封剂库存和有效期数据，从而导致有效和高效的管理PMF密封剂。反过来，这将大大降低客户成本和不必要的浪费，同时提高生产服务水平。 目前的主要航空航天公司客户对这项研究表现出极大的兴趣，据估计，这些客户以及其他主要航空航天公司和供应商将投资2500万至3000万美元来收购、实施和利用这项技术。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will explore the feasibility of applying Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies for the inventory management of time and temperature sensitive materials, which are PreMixed and Frozen (PMF) sealants that are extensively used today in the aerospace industry. This project fundamentally aims to develop and implement distributed power control schemes for RFID antennas/readers in order to overcome the read rate problem, which is a major obstacle in front of RFID implementation in industry today. This research project provides a solution to a major aerospace industry problem; the loss of millions of dollars annually due to expired PMF sealants. Utilizing RFID technologies in tandem with current practices will provide near real-time PMF sealant inventory and expiration date data and thus lead to effective and efficient management of PMF sealants. In turn this will result in a dramatic decrease in customer cost and unwanted waste while increasing the service level for production. Current prime aerospace company customers have shown great interest in this proposed research and it is estimated that these customers as well as other prime aerospace companies and suppliers would invest $25-30 million to acquire, implement, and utilize this technology.