Redondo optics INC. (ROI) proposes to design build bench and fly test and deliver to NASA an innovative light weight small-formfactor ultra-low power readily reconfigure intelligent wireless fiber…

Redondo optics INC. (ROI) proposes to design build bench and fly test and deliver to NASA an innovative light weight small-formfactor ultra-low power readily reconfigure intelligent wireless fiber optic sensor (iwise ) network system suitable for the remote monitoring of multi-dimensional sensing events strain temperature heat-flow pressure vibration acoustics ultrasound etc. Measured by a global network of wireless and self-powered iwise sensing nodes used to interrogate embedded or surface mounted FBG sensors suitable for operation within the extreme environmental conditions and hard to reach inaccessible locations of large space vehicle rocket propulsion systems. In the phase i program ROI will develop a laboratory bench top prototype of the self-power intelligent wireless iwise sensor network system to demonstrate its capability to measure static and dynamic sensor data using an iwise sensing node interrogating a distributed array of multi-dimensional FBG sensing elements positioned within hard to reach and poorly accessible areas of a space vehicle and to wirelessly transmit the sensor status data to a remote iwise data logger receiver/gateway connected via wireless/ethernet network for global access to NASA s system condition users (operators customers management etc.). In phase II of ROI will complete the engineering development produce extensively laboratory test environmentally qualify on a relevant rocket space vehicle-like platform and deliver to NASA a light weight space-ready self-power intelligent wireless wise sensor network SHM system.