Passive wireless sensing tags NASA inflatable structures.

Technical Report · Tue Feb 28 23:00:00 EST 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/878576· OSTI ID:878576

Brocato, Robert Wesley

This report gives a description of several types of wireless, unpowered remote sensors. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices were coupled with conventional sensors to create entirely new types of sensors. These sensors report physically measurable data in the same manner as the conventional sensors, but they do it remotely and without any local power source. The sensors are measured remotely using a radar-like interrogation device, and the sensors and their related communication electronics draw all of the power needed for communicating from the radar pulse. The report covers only a description of prototype sensors and not of the manufacturing requirements of these devices.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 878576
• Report Number(s): SAND2006-1288
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACOUSTICS
Acoustic surface wave devices.
DATA TRANSMISSION
DESIGN
MONITORS
NASA
POWER SUPPLIES
RADAR
REMOTE SENSING
Remote sensing.