SBIR Phase II: MicroLINKs: connecting the physical and digital worlds

SBIR 第二阶段：MicroLINK：连接物理世界和数字世界

• 批准号: 2208619
• 负责人: Alejandro Cortese
• 金额: $ 99.99万
• 依托单位: OWIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2208619&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; MicroLINKs; connecting

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Research Innovation (SBIR) Phase II project is to reduce the economic, human, and environmental cost caused by the current disconnect between an object and its digital history. At the human level, consider hospital use cases: medical errors are estimated to kill upwards of 90,000 people annually. Many of these deaths can be traced to a disconnect in the flow of information: the wrong medication goes to a patient, a surgical instrument is not properly sanitized, etc. These errors could be prevented with a tag that is used to verify the identity and status of an object at point of delivery. The proposed technology has application potential across multiple industries: in the enterprise space, companies are investing billions in serialization and augmented reality (AR) to do everything from monitoring supply chains to speeding up manufacturing to improving the cost and reliability of maintenance. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to address an unmet need to provide a technology that connects the physical and digital worlds while offering the needed characteristics for specific markets. The proposed tags provide a novel solution as a ubiquitous, unobtrusive, and cost-effective link that seamlessly and securely ties a physical object to its digital content/history, and a unified data storage/access framework. The technology milestones are to increase read distance (from 4 cm to 16 cm) to address the need to accommodate applications requiring longer read distances; to increase volume tag manufacturing at a rapid but controlled pace and to continue to develop next generation readers based on a prototype reader with co-axial optics, where the read length can be adjusted with no changes to the optics or detector. Based on need, the reader can be varied for specific market segments, while relying on the same core optical and electronic sensing technology.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.

这项小型企业研究创新（SBIR）II期项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是减少由于当前对象与数字历史之间的当前断开连接所造成的经济，人类和环境成本。在人类层面，考虑医院用例：估计医疗错误每年杀死90,000多人。这些死亡中的许多死亡可以追溯到信息流中的断开：错误的药物是送给患者的，手术工具没有正确消毒等。可以使用用于验证物体交付点的对象的身份和状态的标签来防止这些错误。拟议的技术在多个行业中具有应用潜力：在企业领域，公司正在投资数十亿美元的序列化和增强现实（AR），以完成从监控供应链到加速制造业到提高维护成本和维护的所有方面。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II阶段项目旨在满足未满足的需求，以提供连接物理和数字世界的技术，同时为特定市场提供所需的特征。所提出的标签提供了一种新颖的解决方案，作为无处不在，不引人注目且具有成本效益的链接，该链接将物理对象无缝地与其数字内容/历史记录以及统一的数据存储/访问框架联系起来。 技术里程碑是将读取距离（从4厘米到16厘米）提高，以满足适应需要更长读取距离的应用的需求；以快速但受控的节奏增加音量标签制造，并继续根据具有同轴光学元件的原型读取器来开发下一代读取器，可以调整读取长度而不会更改光学器件或检测器。根据需求，读者在特定的市场细分市场中可能会有所不同，同时依靠相同的核心光学和电子传感技术。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智力优点和更广泛影响的评估评估标准来通过评估来获得支持的。