SBIR/STTR Research Award
Membrane-Based Interferometric Respiration Sensor
Award amount
$99,993Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2006Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Physical Optics Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DG3AB4E8R4D8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
To address the national need to increase transportation security and to prevent human smuggling within cargo containers, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop Membrane-based Interferometric Respiration Sensor (MIRS), based on a semipermeable, membrane that preferentially transmits carbon dioxide and an active interferometric readout to detect minute periodic variations in carbon dioxide concentration within a container caused by human respiration. The MIRS incorporates on-board data analysis to detect the presence of humans with low-false alarm rates. The MIRS will have a wireless transmitter to send an alarm to security personnel and to identify the container and time of alarm. It will consume
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Automated Camera Orientation Recovery Software
- Wavelet-Based Approach for Signal Processing and Analysis
- Automatic Deep Learning-based Target Identification with Semantic Reasoner for Autonomous Collaborative Weapons
- Miniaturize, Inexpensive, Automated Mid-Body Range Safety Subsystem
- Cryptographic Multi-Biometric Software System
Research funding history
1,933 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2021). Reported award amounts total $549,686,800. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security
Contractor profile
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Agency intelligence
Department of Homeland Security
NAICS intelligence
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