EAGER: Exploring Magnetic Communications for Challenging Environments

EAGER：探索具有挑战性的环境的磁通信

• 批准号: 1844944
• 负责人: Krishna Kant
• 金额: $ 9.4万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Exploring; Magnetic; Communications; Challenging

Magnetic Induction (MI) refers to the phenomenon where a current passed through a transmitter coil induces a current in a receiver coil that is separated by a short distance from the transmitter coil and is tuned to the same resonance frequency. MI can also be used to carry information by modulating the current. Unlike radio frequency (RF) communication, MI-based communication can provide several benefits such as low energy use, ability to work reliably in a variety of difficult propagation media (e.g., fresh/sea water, non-ferromagnetic metals, underground, etc.), and low leakage possibility because of fast decay of the signal with distance. Furthermore, since the MI technology is useful for efficient power transfer as well, it provides the possibility of passive tagging as well. MI technology is currently not well explored, and there are no commercial circuit boards that can be flexibly configured for experimentation. The primary purpose of this project is to develop relatively inexpensive MI-based transceiver boards and use them to explore the use of MI technology in several emerging applications, particularly those in the emerging smart infrastructure context.The project will develop circuit boards for MI-based communications to support experimental research into this technology. The boards will provide flexible control of the operational frequency, coil size, and operating voltage. The project will experimentally explore the range, power consumption, robustness of the MI communications through a variety of media to enhance the understanding of the merits and limitations of the technology. It will also explore the Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) capabilities in this setup for increasing data rates, and techniques to increase the range. By building several MI communications boards, the project will explore their use in several applications including on-line monitoring and tracking of fresh food supply chain, automated identification of MI tagged items in the smart shopping context and online monitoring of soil in the smart agriculture context. Each of these applications has a unique set of characteristics and requirements and thus can provide a comprehensive experimental evaluation of MI-based communications. The project will also enable other researchers to use our design and boards to further explore the MI technology for a variety of other smart infrastructure applications of societal importance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

磁感应（MI）是指通过发射器线圈的电流诱导接收器线圈中的电流，该电流距离发射器线圈相距不远，并调谐到相同的谐振频率。 MI也可以通过调节电流来携带信息。与射频（RF）通信不同，基于MI的通信可以提供多种好处，例如低能用途，能够在各种困难的繁殖媒体中可靠工作（例如，新鲜/海水，非有效金属，地下等）以及由于信号快速衰减的距离而可能的低泄漏可能性。此外，由于MI技术也可用于有效的电力传输，因此它也提供了被动标记的可能性。 MI技术目前的探索尚不很好，并且没有可以灵活配置进行实验的商业电路板。该项目的主要目的是开发相对便宜的基于MI的收发板，并使用它们来探索在几种新兴应用程序中使用MI技术的使用，尤其是在新兴的智能基础设施环境中的应用程序中。板将对操作频率，线圈尺寸和操作电压的灵活控制。该项目将通过各种媒体实验探索MI通信的范围，功耗，鲁棒性，以增强对技术的优点和局限性的理解。 它还将在此设置中探索多输入，多输出（MIMO）功能，以提高数据速率以及增加范围的技术。通过构建多个MI通信委员会，该项目将探索它们在几种应用中的用途，包括在线监控和跟踪新鲜食品供应链，在智能购物环境中对MI标记的物品的自动标识以及在智能农业环境中对土壤的在线监视。这些应用程序中的每一个都有一套独特的特征和要求，因此可以对基于MI的通信进行全面的实验评估。该项目还将使其他研究人员能够使用我们的设计和董事会​​来进一步探索MI技术，以实现社会重要性的其他各种智能基础设施应用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

Smart Sensing, Communication, and Control in Perishable Food Supply Chain

• DOI: 10.1145/3360726
• 发表时间: 2020-01
• 期刊: ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
• 作者: Amitangshu Pal;K. Kant

Performance Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Coupling Method for Intra-Body Network (IBNet)

• DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2021.3130408
• 发表时间: 2022-06-01
• 期刊: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Islam，Sayemul;Gulati，Rajpreet Kaur;Kim，Albert
• 通讯作者: Kim，Albert

Experimental Evaluation of a Near-Field Magnetic Induction Based Communication System

• DOI: 10.1109/wcnc.2019.8885541
• 发表时间: 2019-04
• 期刊: 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
• 作者: R. K. Gulati;Amitangshu Pal;K. Kant

Towards Building Low Power Magnetic Communication Protocols for Challenging Environments

• DOI: 10.1109/icccn.2019.8847145
• 发表时间: 2019-07
• 期刊: 2019 28th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN)
• 作者: Amitangshu Pal;R. K. Gulati;K. Kant

NFMI: Near Field Magnetic Induction based communication

• DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107548
• 发表时间: 2020-11-09
• 期刊: COMPUTER NETWORKS
• 影响因子: 5.6
• 作者: Pal, Amitangshu;Kant, Krishna
• 通讯作者: Kant, Krishna