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Automated Reconfiguable Intelligent Radio (ARIR)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Commerce
Branch: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 619-52
Amount: $75,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2003
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
200 Greenleaf Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Kartik Moorthy
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Business Contact
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Research Institution
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Abstract

Williams-Pyro, Inc. proposes to develop an Automated Reconfigurable Intelligent Radio (ARIR), which consists of a series of distributed nodes that will relay voice and data to Intelligent Access Points (IAP) located within the building. This system will allow faster, more accurate information transmission, resulting in timely fire detection and safer firefighting. The main goal of ARIR is to identify how a real-time channel within the distributed system can be enhanced at a moderate cost to be immune to any single component failure within the channel. The basic structure of the ARIR consists of neural networks for failure diagnosis and fault prognosis, as well as a new Discrete Event Controller based on matrices (U.S. patent) for dynamic real-time network reconfiguration and resource assignment. This failure analysis/network reconfiguration supervisor will be distributed in nature, consisting of multiple redundant subsystems. The proposed innovation will allow the creation of self-forming nodes that can expand and contract on demand, extend into damaged areas with unknown infrastructures, support firefighters with no/short notice, and communicate between ad-hoc elements of the platform as needed.

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