TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Energy Harvesting Smart Sensor (SSC-TOPS-4)

NASA's Technology Transfer Program solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use. NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses . THE TECHNOLOGY: The energy harvesting smart sensor is a highly power conservative monitoring system consisting of a base station and wireless sensor units. The sensors lay fully unpowered within a dormant state until they receive a trigger energy which consumes no stored power. When activated, the sensor takes a measurement, transmits the data to the base station with a synchronized time stamp, and then returns to its dormant state. The system can be utilized in commercial applications that require long term monitoring of events associated with different types of strain, temperatures, limit switches, currents, voltages and magnetic fields. Though designed to improve the monitoring of high-geared ball and linearly-actuated valves used in propulsion testing to predict valve life span and failure, its use is not limited to valves. It can monitor the operational data of any suitable structure, such as temperature in a particular location in a building, or the strain at a specific point on a bridge. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a license application through NASA's Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/SSC-TOPS-4 If you have any questions, please contact the NASA Stennis Space Center Technology Transfer Office at [email protected] with the title of this Technology Transfer Opportunity as listed in this FBO notice and your preferred contact information. For more information about licensing other NASA-developed technologies, please visit the NASA Technology Transfer Portal at https://technology.nasa.gov/ These responses are provided to members of NASA's Technology Transfer Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness of NASA-developed technology products, and conducting preliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for future licensing opportunities. No follow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice .