SBIR/STTR Research Award
RF Harvesting for Anti Tamper (AT) Techniques
Award amount
$99,023Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2011Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Micro Optics Technologies, Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2011-01-19
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- 2010.3
- Topic code
- AF103-183
Research abstract
A system is designed to extract energy from background RF energy in the ambient due to radio and wireless communication sources. This energy is harvested on a continuous basis and stored on-board to provide power for anti tamper systems. This eliminates the need for maintenance of battery sources that would otherwise be needed to power the device electronics. With a maintenance free power source provided by harvesting energy from the environment the sensors can operate for an unlimited time unattended. BENEFIT: Powering electronics from ambient RF backgrounds eliminates battery maintenance in wireless devices. Potential commercial application is wireless recharge of batteries in portable electronic devices and sensor networks.
Technology keywords
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