SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low Cost, Small Size, Watermelon Ripeness Tester
Award amount
$80,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- LW Microsystem, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
The currently available watermelon ripeness test equipment is space consuming (which may occupy a desk table), and expensive (>$1000/each), thus, prevent it to be widely used by watermelon farmers and general consumers. This proposal is submitted for research on using micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology to make small size, low cost watermelon ripeness testers in the application of watermelon ripeness detection for both watermelon consumers and farmers.
Technology keywords
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