SBIR-STTR Award

The purpose of this project, and the justification for funding, is the modification/adaptation of an ultra miniature wireless, digital-video capsule developed by Given Imaging Inc. for use in the gastrointestinal tract, to meet the needs of new requirements and markets, specifically: security, surveillance, search and rescue, crisis mitigation, and similar applications. This technology introduces a new dimension in the ability to accurately visualize processes, eavesdrop in hostile territory, as well as on-location recovery, and manage events that previously had to be managed by dog sniffing, risking troops or personnel, or by use of the imagination rather than objective displays. It is applicable to intelligence gathering, crisis management, risk mitigation, crisis recovery efforts, and security surveillance.

The purpose of this project and the justification for funding is to design and develop a network of miniature video sensors. The system consists of very low cost, miniature, color video sensors (capsules) that are totally integrated and autonomous, including a digital camera, two-way radio, antenna and battery and a network hub which consists of a hand held PDA with a custom radio card. Our goal is to produce the capsules at a target production price of < $100 in large quantities. The foundation of this development is an existing ultra miniature, wireless, color, digital-video capsule, which is used to image the gastrointestinal tract and will now evolve and be transformed into an imaging sensor network, designed to meet the specific requirements presented by this solicitation to combat terrorism, aide in urban combat, crisis mitigation, bio-chem detection and other similar security and defense applications.

Keywords:
ULTRA-MINIATURE, WIRELESS, VIDEO, SENSOR, NETWORK, AD-HOC, CAPSULE