| Sol No.: |
Navy SBIR FY2014.2 |
| Topic No.: |
N142-114 |
| Topic Title: |
4 Antenna Software Defined Spectrum Monitor with PCMCIA Wireless Card Form Factor |
| Proposal No.: |
N142-114-0525 |
| Firm: |
Silvus Technologies, Inc
10990 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 1500
Los Angeles, California 90024 |
| Contact: |
Abhishek Tiwari |
| Phone: |
(310) 479-3333 |
| Web Site: |
www.silvustechnologies.com |
| Abstract: |
Building upon its expertise in bringing Low SWaP multi-antenna mesh networked MIMO radios to the market, Silvus Technologies proposes a 4 Antenna Software Defined Spectrum Monitor (SDSM) in response to this SBIR topic. The low SWaP of the SDSM will enable integration into the ScanEagle UAV with already existing meteorological and other payloads. In order to negate the effect of the 3D antenna pattern of the antenna array Silvus Technologies proposes a variety of receive beamforming techniques that can turn the effective beampattern of the antenna array into an almost omni-directional pattern ("Omnifying Beamforming"). Dr. Peter Gerstoft, a Geophysicist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography will act as a consultant on the proposed effort. |
| Benefits: |
The product of this SBIR has direct applications to PMW-120 within Program Executive Office-Command Control Communications, Computers and Intelligence. A low SWaP wideband spectrum monitoring tool is also immensely useful to the Electronic Warfare and Signal Intelligence community. The small form factor and low power consumption will enable applications on unattended remotely deployed ocean buoys and sensors.
A small form factor wideband tunable spectrum monitoring solution will result in low cost radio and tower site surveys for commercial telecom and broadcast industry.
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