SBIR Phase I: Long Range 2-way Communications for the Remote IOT

这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的广泛影响/商业潜力将使机器和设备能够实现高成本效益的双向通信。东西吗?使用未充分利用的频率和新的硬件和软件技术进行极长距离的传输。由此产生的技术将提供双向连接，在蜂窝不存在的地方，在其他技术（卫星）过于昂贵的地方。这将导致物联网的几乎普遍可用性，其成本优于传统方法，并且适用于物联网中的典型应用。拟议中的项目将创建一个由硬件、软件、频率和操作技术组成的新系统，使未充分利用的频谱能够用于向非常遥远的机器和事物提供双向通信。这项工作将包括创建一个小型硬件平台，创建嵌入式软件和修改现有软件，以及创建检测和避免当前频谱用户的技术，设备将被创建和现场部署以评估功效。在工作期间，将运行一些测试程序和程序，以评估该技术的工作效果、预期的性能、操作是否符合现有的监管框架、预期的容量类型以及系统的总体经济效益。我们希望在这个项目中建立一个重要的专利地位。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will allow highly cost effective, 2-way communications to be delivered to machinery and ?Things? over extremely long distances using underutilized frequencies and new hardware and software techniques. The resulting technologies will provide 2-way connectivity where cellular does not exist and where other techniques (satellite) are too expensive. This will result in near universal availability of the Internet-of-Things at costs superior to legacy approaches and which are appropriate for applications typically seen in Internet-of-Things. The proposed project will create a new system of hardware, software, frequency and operating techniques which will allow underutilized spectrum to be used to deliver 2-way communications to very remote machines and things. The work will involve the creation of a small hardware platform, the creation of embedded software and the modification of existing software and the creation of techniques for detecting and avoiding current users of spectrum, Devices will be created and field deployed to assess efficacy. A number of test routines and procedures will be run during the work to assess how well the technology will work, what performance can be expected, how well operations will fit into existing Regulatory frameworks, what sort of capacity can be expected and what the overall economics of the system will be. We expect to build a significant patent position as we pursue the project.