Wireless Batteryless Remote Sensors for Automated Monitoring, Control, and Inspection, Phase I

Two new catogories of wireless batteryless sensors are proposed: magnetoelastic and LC type. These sensors are also chipless which provide significantly lower cost and also higher operating temperatures than chip-based sensors. This technology is al alternative to SAW (surface acoustic wave) wireless sensors that cannot operate through many materials layers, such as in a vehicle structure or fuel tank. Magnetoelastic sensors and LC sensors operate at lower frequencies that have better penetration and also enable lower-cost readers and antenna arrays to be constructed. Among the parameters that can be sensed are: temperature, pressure/strain, humidity, and chemical enviroment. The PI is the inventor on several patents (others pending) for these sensor technologies.

This is a mature technology (TRL 7+) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

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