Project Grant 2014ST108FRG0001

This $270,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to design and integrate a distributed, adaptive on-body antenna array for secure wireless communication in wearable health monitoring systems. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: Development of a novel wearable metasurface transmission line to reduce on-body path loss and enable energy-efficient, secure communication between on-body...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $260,000 to Michigan State University to develop a novel wearable distributed metasurface antenna array for reliable and secure wireless body area networks. The key research tasks include: Developing a wearable metasurface transmission line to reduce on-body signal path loss and enable energy-efficient, secure communication between body-worn antennas. Investigating a coordinated wearable...

This $149,932 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of human-technology safety partnerships for roadside work zones. Specifically, the University of Memphis will create an initial prototype of connected wearable devices to assist highway workers in identifying potential threats. Researchers will use virtual reality experiments to study workers' safety-related decisions with and without wearables. They will also develop a technology acceptance model and quantify...

The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $297,448 Project Grant to the Long Beach Research Foundation of California State University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The grant supports research titled "Towards Efficient, Reliable, and Secure Chaotic Communications in Wearable Devices" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $373,566 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Missouri System, doing business as Curators of the University of Missouri. The project, titled "WEPPE: Wireless Edge-Computing Personal Protective Equipment for Large-Scale Health Monitoring," aims to develop a general-purpose, scalable edge-computing architecture to support next-generation personal protective equipment (PPE) technology. The research...

The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University a $450,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop interference canceling technologies for improved coexistence between passive and active radio systems from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds research at Virginia Tech to design small interference mitigation techniques that allow unlicensed wireless devices like Wi-Fi routers and Bluetooth...

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 $1.2 million National Science Foundation project grant will support research into physically unclonable wireless systems utilizing chaotic antenna arrays at the University of South Florida from February 2023 to January 2027. The goal is to develop various configurations of chaotic antenna arrays that introduce unclonable randomizations into their geometry. These arrays are intended to exhibit unique radio frequency fingerprints that can authenticate wireless devices joining a network and...

This $1,164,876 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) supports research to assess radiofrequency (RF) heating effects of active implantable medical devices during low-field (0.55 T) MRI scans. The 3-year project conducted by Northwestern University will: 1) create and validate computational models to forecast RF exposure...

This is a Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The $299,708 grant, with a period of performance from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2027, supports collaborative research to develop AI-driven radio frequency identification (RFID) sensing techniques for smart health monitoring applications. The research aims to create more affordable, comfortable,...