Project Grant 2036477

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 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) seeks to develop an augmented reality (AR) headset with ultra-low-power physically-secure video transfer capabilities enabled by electro-quasistatic human body communication. The $863,501 project, awarded to Quasistatics Inc. (doing business as Ixana), aims to create a new high-bandwidth data network through the human body, enabling innovative...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project awarded Creathadh Energies LLC $305,000 to develop a prototype for a wearable device that can harvest vibrations from human movement to power itself. The goal is to create a self-powered wearable, such as a heart rate monitor for athletes, that never needs a battery replacement or recharging. The project will design and build an electromagnetic...

This $245,631 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a wearable device capable of continuously sensing a wide range of physiological signals for use in biometric authentication and health monitoring. The project, led by Louisiana State University, will explore the use of multispectral photoplethysmography (PPG) signals for biometric authentication through custom-designed wearable devices. The research tasks include...

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 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $499,896.00 to Georgia Tech Research Corp to develop and optimize a communication platform for networking multiple wearable and implantable bioelectronic devices throughout the body. The goal is to enable real-time monitoring and treatment of conditions like wound healing, diabetes, and neurodegeneration by facilitating communication between sensors and therapeutic actuators across tissue...

This $275,000 SBIR Phase I Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a wearable multimodal sensing device by Skywalk Inc., a for-profit Asian-Pacific American-owned manufacturer. The device aims to enable more intuitive interaction with augmented reality (AR) technologies by turning human hands into cursors, turning any surface into a touchscreen, and unlocking new...

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...

This $254,369 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Michigan Technological University (MTU) on May 1, 2025. The grant supports the development of a wearable device capable of continuously sensing physiological signals for biometric authentication and health monitoring. The key objectives are to: Model and analyze multispectral transient photoplethysmography (PPG) signals Design novel algorithms for real-time user...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will conduct basic scientific research toward developing a new wearable technology capable of capturing images through human skin. The $300,000 award, with a project period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2027, will demonstrate proof-of-concept for a novel wearable system that uses diffractive optical networks to image and sense through the...