SBIR/STTR Research Award
RFID-Enabled Navigation and Communication Networks for Long-Duration Space Missions
Award amount
$99,989Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VIRTUAL EM INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2010-01-29
- Contract end date
- 2010-07-29
- UEI
- XVVMZSCBJJS6
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- O1.05
Research abstract
Virtual EM Inc. proposes a system that employs semi-passive RFID sensors with carbon nanotube inkjet-printed antenna and solar powered mesh-networked beacons. The tags will be powered by printed thin film batteries and/or via energy harvesting. Beacons will communicate among themselves and read the semi-active RFID tags worn by the astronauts. The location will be fixed via triangulation and this information will be beamed back to the astronauts.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Reconfigurable Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)
- RF Channel Sounder for Automatic Acquisition of the Wireless Environment.
- A Massively Parallel Scalable Processor for Order of Magnitude Increase in Acceleration of Photonic Simulations
- Remote Monitoring of Cardiopulmonary and Neurological Signals
- Low-Cost Radar Antenna with Electronic Elevation Scan
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- X-Band GaN Power Amplifiers for Long Range Space RF Telecommunications
- High-power X- and Ka-band Gallium Nitride Amplifiers with Exceptional Efficiency
- High-Efficiency, High-Power Ka-Band Elliptic-Beam Traveling-Wave-Tube Amplifier for Long-Range Space RF Telecommunications
- DD-Amp for Deep Space Communications
- SWaP Optimized Space Transceivers
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $7,801,861. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce