SBIR-STTR Award

Pilot Wrist Computer System (PWCS)
Award last edited on: 4/28/2015

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : AF
Total Award Amount
$849,850
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
AF103-026
Principal Investigator
Stephen Rondel

Company Information

VoiceLever Inc

7349 148th Avenue Ne
Redmond, WA 98052
   (425) 864-7676
   srondel@voicelever.com
   www.voicelever.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 01
County: King

Phase I

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Start Date: ----    Completed: ----
Phase I year
2011
Phase I Amount
$99,850
Extremely small, portable, lightweight, and ruggedized PC with open standards, secure operation and networking - not handheld - but worn and operated by touch, and/or hands free by voice command and speech response. Designed for personnel on the move. Ready and immediate access to a high resolution, visual display on the wrist/forearm. Software, hardware, and enclosures support an extensive range of standard attachments, from radios to cameras to location and physio sensors and their data. Marking and proximity alerts to wearer. Designed for Broad team visibility. Power, light, and noise signature management.

Benefit:
Situational Awareness Force Multiplier. Rapidly Selectable Wide-area and individual views on a wrist display. Track and see what aerial, dismounted troops, and vehicle cameras are available, select, and see. Common operating picture of team member locations and individual visual perspectives. Rapid access to any available field of view, and individual sensored data (physio and logistical). Open Platform for support of legacy systems, operable on the move - no "handheld" components - designed for hands-and-eyes-free operation for hands-and-eyes-busy personnel. Architected for Multimodal input and output, secure video, sound, and sensor data collection and distribution. Military: Pilot, warfighter, support and command personnel. Police. Border Patrol. Medical. Search and Rescue. Emergency Response. Homeland Security. Fire. Enterprise mobile data collection and data entry. On-the-fly, paper and keyboardless, hands-free digitization of observations. Digital advantages from security to integration of data/visualizations.

Keywords:
"pilot-Warfighter-Wrist-Computer-With-Wrist-To-Wrist-Networking", "wrist-Display-With-Wearable-Pc Lets You See What Others See", "voice And Touch Operated Human-Wearable-Warfi

Phase II

Contract Number: ----------
Start Date: ----    Completed: ----
Phase II year
2012
Phase II Amount
$750,000
We have designed a system we call the Human Terminal System - a wrist-or-chest wearable system to provide organic battlespace visualization capability to pilots and other warfighters. The system is a powerful, miniaturized, man-wearable, multi-processor PC running Windows and Android in support of both legacy PC and smartphone software. It supports numerous displays from 3.5 to 7 inch, including HMDs, has a multimodal user interface encompassing touch screen, track pad, touchpad, track stick, keyboard and voice command; power management, energy conservation, and distributed fault protection. It supports over 250 sensor ports, (for skin-in/skin-out sensors) via an open architecture including 6 USB2.0, 2 Ethernet, 1 RS232, 1 RS 170, microphone and speaker ports. Now at Generation 9, the system demonstrates compatibility with existing SOF software, ease of ease, ruggedization, and SWEPPI evolution. We will reach Generation 14 in Phase II, fabricate several systems, deploy with early stage DOD and security customers, and continue field technology exercises with operators to assess speed, usability, and accessibility over existing systems. The system is designed for situational awareness, surveillance, and flight operations, for pilots and crew, (including pilots of soldier launched UAVs) and in particular for SOF, TACP, and PJ personnel.

Benefit:
The system is a Situational Awareness Force Multiplier. It provides Rapidly Selectable Wide-area and individual views on a wrist or chest display. Track and see what aerial, dismounted troops and vehicle cameras see. Provides a common operating picture of team member (blue force) location and available individual fields of view. Provides rapid access to any available field of view, and to sensor data (physio and logistical) from warfighters. Open Platform for support of legacy PC systems, operates on the move, hands free. The system is not "handheld", but is designed for hands-and-eyes-busy personnel. Multimodal touch and voice command, secure video, sound, and sensor data collection and distribution. Broad commercial applications beyond the Military: Police. Border Patrol. Medical. Search and Rescue. Emergency Response. Homeland Security. Fire. Enterprise mobile data collection and data entry, aircraft maintenance, equipment repair – any collaborative teamwork that requires visual and audio presence sharing on demand.

Keywords:
Pilots Wrist Computer, Wearable Warfighter Pc, Man-Wearable Computer,Human Terminal System,Human Wearable Computer System, Hands Free Computer System,"pilot-Warfighter-Wrist-C