SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra Low-Power and Embeddable Blade-Condition Monitor
Award amount
$99,996Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Extreme Diagnostics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- 2011-03-18
- UEI
- S1Q3NANXF7N5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- 07 c
Research abstract
This SBIR/STTR project delivers an ultra-low power structural health monitoring (SHM) system that uses autonomous, wirelessly embedded sensors to monitor and assess structural integrity in wind turbine blades. EASE features impedance-based active SHM, which is highly sensitive to damage like cracks, delimitations, mass variations, fastener failures and stiffness changes. Blades are the only wind turbine component designed and manufactured uniquely for wind energy applications, and the blade is perhaps the most important link in component technology. Future, improved blade designs will maximize performance at the lowest possible cost, stretch rotors to greater swept areas, and increase energy capture
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.
- In-Space Demonstration of Submicron Active Optomechanical Control
- In-Space Demonstration of Submicron Active Optomechanical Control
- Macro-Fiber Composite-Based Actuators for Space
- Macro-Fiber Composite-based actuators for space
- Compact Energy Conversion Module
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Microgrid Wind Turbine for Distributed Generation
- Weathervane - A Predictive Analytics Engine for Global Monitoring of Wind Turbines
- Weathervane - A Predictive Analytics Engine for Global Monitoring of Wind Turbines
- Recovery Act - Web-Based Diagnostic Tools for Online Monitoring of Photovoltaic Systems
- Recovery Act - Performance Monitoring and Actionable Alert Messaging for Building Integrated Photovoltaics
Research funding history
15 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2020). Reported award amounts total $4,069,374. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy