SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra-Compact Power Harvesting for Self-Powered Aircraft Sensors
Award amount
$715,982Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- KCF TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-03-10
- Contract end date
- 2011-08-22
- UEI
- TE4JC4WHGQF5
- Solicitation number
- 2007.1
- Topic code
- N07-076
Research abstract
In this Phase II project and included Options, KCF Technologies will further develop, produce and demonstrate ultra-compact power harvesting devices enabled by single-crystal piezoelectrics. This technology builds upon KCF’s leadership in vibration power harvesting for industrial and shipboard wireless sensors. The power harvesting technology will be transitioned to the Navy by inserting it into ongoing developments in wireless HUMS systems with our partners, Goodrich and Sikorsky Aircraft. The immediate market for this technology is Goodrich HUMS systems that are standard on all Sikorsky rotorcraft. With over 5000 HUMS systems to be deployed and at least 22 sensors per system, there is a market opportunity for over 100,000 harvester-powered wireless sensors. Follow-on markets are much larger, inserting the single-crystal technology into KCF’s harvesting devices for industrial monitoring and our partnership with RLW on FIPS-validated self-powered sensors for Navy shipboard sensing.
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.
- Noninvasive Hydration Monitor for Challenging Environments
- Integrated Constant Speed Drive Input Shaft Monitor
- SmartDiagnostics and Prognostics for Navy Aircraft Asset Management
- Sustained Maintenance Planning Software
- Smart-Tether-Based Automated Hull Grooming
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Naval Device Applications of Relaxor Piezoelectric Single Crystals
- Common Acoustic Communication Module for UUVs
- Naval Device Applications of Relaxor Piezoelectric Single Crystals
- Single Crystal 1-3 Composite Projectors for MCM Applications
- Design of Transducers for Underwater Communications and Hearing Protection
Research funding history
47 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2019). Reported award amounts total $15,636,762. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation