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

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的广泛影响/商业潜力将使高成本效益的双向通信能够使用未得到充分利用的频率和新的硬件和软件技术，在极长的非视距距离内交付给机器和物品。由此产生的技术将在蜂窝不存在和其他技术(卫星)过于昂贵的情况下提供双向连接。这将导致物联网几乎普遍可用，成本高于传统方法，并且适合物联网应用程序中常见的应用程序。此外，这项工作将在允许更平衡地利用无线电频谱方面产生广泛的影响，这些频谱无法用传统的无线技术解决(无论是在经济上还是根本无法解决)。拟议的项目将创建一个新的硬件、软件、频率和操作技术系统，使未充分利用的频谱能够用于向非常偏远的机器和事物提供双向通信。这项工作将建立在我们第一阶段成就的基础上，以创建两个新的无线系统的生产就绪设计、允许在避开现有用户的同时使用具有挑战性的频谱的信号处理软件、创建用于自动控制和协调我们的架构的基于云的基础设施的第一个实例，以及创建一套基本的部署工具和技术来支持现场操作。我们希望在进行这项工作的同时，继续建立一个重要的知识产权基础。这一奖项反映了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。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will allow highly cost effective, 2-way communications to be delivered to machinery and 'Things' over extremely long and non-line-of-sight 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 applications. Further, the work will have broad impact in allowing more balanced utilization of the radio spectrum which cannot be addressed (either economically or at all) with legacy wireless techniques.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 build on our Phase I accomplishments to create production-ready designs of two new wireless systems, signal processing software to allow use of challenging spectrum while avoiding existing users, create the first instance of a cloud based infrastructure for automated control and coordination of our architecture, and, the creation of a basic set of deployment tools and techniques to support field operations. We expect to continue building a significant base of Intellectual Property as we pursue the work.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.