SBIR/STTR Research Award
RF Power Scavenging
Award amount
$99,933Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED
- Proposal award date
- 2004-05-14
- Contract end date
- 2005-06-29
- UEI
- SJHFCDGKJJC5
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- N04-096
Research abstract
There is a strong desire within the U.S. Navy to instrument ships with distributed wireless sensors. A significant challenge in this endeavor is supplying power to the sensors. A requirement to regularly change batteries reduces the advantage of the wireless sensors. Luna proposes to solve this problem by capturing stray radio frequency energy from shipboard systems to supply power to the sensors. The concept is to capture the stray energy with an advanced antenna design and store the energy in either a battery or a super-capacitor. As part of the project Luna will design a suite of micro-powered sensors designed to be run off the scavenged power, and the distributed network to allow the sensors to communicate with the shipboard system.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- RF Power Scavenging for Wireless Sensors
- Rectenna Systems for Power Scavenging
- RF Power Scavenging for Wireless Sensors
Research funding history
994 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2026). Reported award amounts total $336,438,763. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency