Self Powered, Wireless, Smart Sensor for Damage Monitoring Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Topic No.: N05-011 Topic Title: Self Powered, Wireless, Smart Sensor for Damage Monitoring Proposal No.: N051-011-0665 Firm: Techno-Sciences, Inc. 10001 Derekwood Lane Suite 204 Lanham, Maryland 20706 Contact: Carole Teolis Phone: (301) 577-6000 Web Site: www.technosci.com Abstract: The objective of the proposed work is to develop and fabricate a wireless self powered smart sensor to measure strain in dynamic components for Navy/Marine helicopters. The main objectives of the Phase I effort are to investigate the feasibility, affordability and applicability of a class of smart sensors that can be: (1) powered by energy harvested from the environment of the sensor, (2) operated wirelessly as part of an open, standards based network, and (3) packaged into an affordable unit for military and commercial applications. In order to avoid the maintenance overhead of post processing the Gigabytes of data that can easily be generated by monitoring systems, our smart sensor concept includes a wireless sensor module that is capable of recording and on-board processing of the collected data to generate key usage parameters sufficient to assess the health of the vehicle. Benefits: Such a system will have immediate commercial applications for commercial helicopters as well as fixed wing systems. Lightweight, low cost, wireless smart sensor systems can also be tuned to other industrial applications, as well as applications to personnel medical monitoring by changing sensors and algorithms. Return