SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra Wide Band Water Sensor
Award amount
$599,386Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Intelligent Automation, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-01-29
- Contract end date
- 2006-01-28
- UEI
- C3QJD7VXG167
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- E4.01
Research abstract
This proposal details an innovative water sensor system based on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology. We propose to mount UWB hardware on a remote controlled or autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) for both remote soil measurements, and measurements of snowpack depth and density. IAI has been doing independent work on UWB for several years, and is currently working on 15 contracts for different applications of UWB. Because of this extensive experience with UWB hardware, we built a functioning prototype sensing system that will meet many of NASA?s requirements in Phase I. Recent experimental results obtained in collaboration with NIST, and detailed simulations during Phase I, demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. In addition, the recent ruling by the FCC to allow for commercial use of UWB has opened the door for mass-produced, reliable UWB hardware available at low cost in the very near future, making our approach also economically very much feasible.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
1,182 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2021). Reported award amounts total $369,972,257. 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 Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security