Project Grant 1622232

This two-year, $401,085 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at The Ohio State University to develop a frequency agnostic backscatter system capable of operating across different wireless protocols and frequency bands. The goal is to design a system with the potential to be deployed in various locations to support Internet of Things applications. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate novel hardware designs to improve overall spectrum utilization in...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop a terahertz radar imaging transceiver to improve concealed threat detection for law enforcement and event venue security. The $274,927 award from the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will support the design, implementation, fabrication, and testing of a terahertz radar transceiver, a critical component for a portable, discreet security screening...

This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop a novel hardware-software co-design communication framework that enables parallel communication and improved spectrum utilization and power efficiency for heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices operating on the crowded 2.4GHz unlicensed spectrum. The framework will leverage software-defined radios (SDRs)...

This $360,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of coherent processing techniques for passive localization of RF-silent mobile objects using bandwidth-rich wireless signals. The grantee, The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, will pursue three research thrusts. Thrust A will develop passive localization and mapping...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will fund the design, implementation, and evaluation of a practical electromagnetic (EM) sensing system called EMRADAR. This system will enable research on EM side-channel attacks and defenses for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in realistic environments. The $197,463 award from the NSF's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems will...

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a prototype transceiver integrated circuit with wide frequency flexibility. The goal is to create a tunable and programmable radio frequency (RF) transceiver that can achieve the benefits of both hardware-tuned and software-defined radio approaches, addressing limitations in existing software-defined radio technologies....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project award to OSO Semiconductor Inc., a minority-owned small business, will develop a new phased array communication technology to achieve lower power consumption, smaller form factors, and more affordable price targets. The $274,992 grant, awarded on December 15, 2023, will fund the development and testing of an ultra-low loss beamforming circuit that can be integrated into a unique low-power phased...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE, CFDA 47.070) Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey provides $599,986 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to develop an alternative distributed radio frequency (RF) sensing paradigm that can "look around corners" using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). The project aims to advance fundamental theory and practical methods...

This three-year, $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of high-efficiency distributed beamforming techniques for radio frequency energy transfer at Northeastern University. The university aims to overcome technological challenges that have hindered effectively combining energy from multiple transmitters to power remote Internet of Things devices. Key products include a distributed beamforming method using...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award for $499,462 aims to explore and study an innovative solution to power future mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The objective is to develop a microsystem that enables direct coupling of electromagnetic waves to a resonant piezoelectric transformer for efficient wireless RF energy harvesting. Key products and services to be delivered include: Demonstration of a novel...