OCTOBER 18-20, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC
2021 Innovation Showcase Participants
- Showcase Participants with Industry Area: Electronics, Sensors, C5ISR
Affordable High-Resolution Radiation Detectors
Actinia has developed new systems for dramatically improved detection of X-rays, gamma rays, and neutrons. These systems promise to deliver more than double the performance of today’s standard detectors without increasing their cost. This will enable new applications in medical imaging, physical inspection, and detection of illicit nuclear materials.
Touchless user interface for existing smart devices
So far, the only screens we know are either controlled by touch or a remote. However, these types of screens will soon become history. Our technology allows users to control any smart device without any contact by tracking and motioning hand gestures, giving a futuristic feel to various applications.
Ultra Reality Display
Breylon is introducing the world's first headset free virtual monitor. The experience is like looking through a window at a gigantic IMAX screen on your desk. This allows replacing multi-monitor setups and having to wear headsets in varieties of enterprise and defense applications like simulation/training, teleoperations, and ISR.
Electromagnetic Augmented Reality Image Guidance with Computerized Task Assistance for Minimally-Invasive Field Care
Technology combining electromagnetic tracking, guidance software, and advanced visualization for 3D and 4D image guidance with augmented reality for minimally-invasive medical procedures. The low-power, portable system can simplify lifesaving interventions while facilitating use closer to the point of need. Applicable to hospital use, training, field resuscitation, and prolonged field care.
Technology/Solution Name: Low-density Parity-check error correction for enabling high-density flash storage with maximum endurance and performance
Codelucida’s error-correction solutions support the next generation of densest NAND flash memories. As the densities of memories increase to enable higher storage capacities, the memories become more prone to errors and the performance degrades. Codelucida’s solutions provide the strongest error correction with highly scalable performance and reduced power.
Monocrystal-based microchannel plate image intensifier
Prior microchannel plates have a visual acuity of approximately 20/36 and have a 1.5 ms decay time. Fermilab's technology provides better spatial resolution and imaging speed. Microchannel plates are used in particle detectors, photodetectors, night vision, etc.
Blaise AI-Augmented, Raman/IoT/5G device for chemical and biological point detection (CBRNE) in the field
Blaise is an Android Form factor device that will enable users to surface in a field environment for pathogens and harmful chemicals in 10 seconds at a cost of less than one cent per scan
ActiveHogel Integrated Light-field Display Module
Based on microLED technologies, the ActiveHogel is a self-contained holographic element designed to create large scale wide format light-field display systems for multiple simultaneous users.
kNOw Touch - Contactless Elevator Control System
Minimising contact with objects has become an essential part of anti-pandemic efforts. The “kNOw Touch” contactless panel lessens the risk of coronavirus transmission in elevator by enabling touchless sensing in elevator control. This cost efficient technology only requires a small twist without the need of vast mechanical alteration to perform.
Early Detection of Soft Shorts In Batteries
Researchers at INL have developed a method to detect flaws and short circuits inside battery cells before they reach critical levels which can lead to overheating and combustion.
PICO Anywhere Suite - Distributed Intelligence Mesh for Constrained Conditions
Decision support teaming services in the field nearest the data and communication needs of users and their resources. System maintains decision support services in high interference or constrained conditions for those moments of inadequate to no access to uplinks or clouds.
An innovative ecofriendly and high resolution roll to roll selective metallization
JetSelectiv® technology own by Jet Metal is a roll to roll high resolution selective metallization for flexible substrates as polymers films or textiles. This eco-friendly process offers high-end industrial solutions for Printed Electronics application.
Mountable, zero-power, ppm-to-ppt level toxic gas and vapor sensor
Torel technology provides a lightweight, personal, mountable and zero-power wearable device that detects the exposure to a variety of toxic gases and vapors with an unmistakable visual output. The platform provides a tamper-proof indicator for both acute and chronic exposure to toxic gases and vapors.
AI enhanced medical device capable of detecting unique biomarkers
The mission of Know Biological is the development of an AI enhanced medical device capable of detecting unique biomarkers appearing in the human body only under specific conditions, such as impending epileptic seizures. These biomarkers can be used as an early warning alert, as in the case of epileptic seizures.
3DS MEMs IMU Technology Platform
The world's first MEMs Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Platform Technology capable of producing the lowest cost, highest performing IMUs that can achieve up to navigation-grade performance. These motion sensing systems are a fraction of the size and cost of existing high performance IMUs on the market today.
Informed Virtual Vitals
Mindset Medical has developed the ability to capture patient physiologic monitoring using remote photoplethysmography from a smartphone. Blood pressure, Sp02, heart rate, and breathing rate can be captured and posted to a cloud based clinical dashboard as well as delivered through text messaging for remote patient monitoring.
Continuous monitoring of moisture/condensation in buildings
Water/moisture/condensation damage and subsequent mold formation is a leading problem in buildings, especially wood-frame. Moistureguard uses proprietary sensors in critical areas to monitor moisture levels and notify owners/builders of problems as an early-warning system.
RobustBadge – Integrated Chemical Sensor for Extreme Environment
RobustBadge is a stable chemical detection platform capable of measuring multiple target gases at extreme condition. It is built integrating N5’s patented micro-scale chemical sensor technology,particularly high-temp wideband gap semiconductor based photocatalytic gas sensor, and robust ceramic packaging.The design provides survivability in extreme conditions, modularity and rapid in-field customization.
FIREFLY Platform
FIREFLY is an innovative, dynamically deployable position, navigation, and tracking platform that integrates location-tracking in GPS-denied areas, environmental sensing, interference-resilience, command and control connectivity, as well as real-time analytics to improve situational awareness and operational visibility.
PNT as a Service (PNTaaS) for operating in GPS denied environments
The Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) as a Service (PNTaaS) open-architecture solution enables the use of multiple space Signals of Opportunity (SoOP) to provide back-up PNT in the event of long duration, wide area GPS denial, and even in the complete global absence of GPS.
NetCore Disaster Response Network (DRN)
NetNumber’s NetCore DRN, designed for any Disaster Response situations, delivering: • Secure automated registration of mobile handsets within the disaster area. • User registration by 1,500+ global network operators, ensures command/control of US citizens/foreign visitors. • Robust solution for First Responders calls, messaging and data. • Highly secure environment.
Aggregate Spread Pulse Modulation in LPWANs for IoT applications
The NonLinear solution is an efficient physical layer modulation scheme for LPWANs that offers multiple tradeoffs and versatile control of the quality of service under different propagation conditions, interference scenarios, and design constraints. This creates superior technical flexibility in addressing broader ranges of IoT applications, both static and mobile.
ADiC Noise/Interference Mitigation Filters
The NonLinear solution minimizes the impact of noise and interference in signal processing more completely than any technology available today. The solution is complementary to any current technology being used and will act only to enhance signals to levels currently unattainable.
Opal HTM: IoT-optimized medical asset management
Opal HTM tracks where, when, and how often medical equipment is used. Our patented system of wireless sensor modules and data analytics gives hospitals unprecedented clarity into the utilization of their equipment, helping them convert this information into millions of dollars saved through optimized procurement and maintenance strategies.
Technology/Solution Name: Advanced Wearable and Mobile Platform for addressing Patient Data Movement in Austere Operating Environments
A mobile solution that securely captures and moves point-of-injury medical, physiological, and situational data in combat environments. Pleiotek’s platform features ruggedized reusable wearables and hands-free functionality that captures, structures, stores and transmits audio, video, sensor/medical data that travels in lock-step with injured warriors, from battlefield to hospital to home.
Polaris Semiconductor LLC
Arlington, VA
RF-Silent DC Voltage Regulators with High Efficiency
Polaris Semiconductor has pioneered a voltage regulator technology which can efficiently raise and lower DC voltages with zero electromagnetic interference (EMI), high efficiency and an extremely compact footprint. This provides critical performance advantages in noise-sensitive and space-constrained applications such as defense, medical, communications and IIoT hardware
Wireless Power Harvester Chips that convert RF to usable DC power
We use a transmitter that sends radio waves to send power over a distance to our power harvester receiver chips that convert the radio signals into usable DC power to charge or replace batteries.
Using AI to Improve Safety at Grade Crossings
The invention to a mobile railway crossing safety device that detects an approaching train at a roadway railway crossing, and provides the issuance of an alert to a person at-risk of associated harm, such as a driver of a motor vehicle about to traverse the railway crossing.
Wearable Body Composition Analyzers
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for analyzing body composition using a wearable device, and more particularly to a finger-wearable device using bioelectrical impedance measurement. This device provides a better assessment of fat, muscle and water composition in the body to track progress.
Wearable Active Lighting Technology
Patented multifunctional wearable lighting system in smart-textiles category for professional/worker/personal safety in low-light conditions. Full eco-system for wide range of application including sensors for special situations.
NeuroHawk TBI Scanner
NeuroHawk is a non-invasive radio-frequency based brain monitor. It detects and monitors, using RF signal scattering and absorption, the presence and size of brain bleeding injuries from traumatic brain injury. The device consists of a flexible headset which contains 9 RF antennae, and the cell phone sized driving electronics.
Ultra Fast Optical Tracking
Sixdof Space has created an optical tracking approach offering long-awaited breakthroughs in speed/latency, accuracy and power. Our patent-pending technology leverages visible or infrared lighting to serve as location beacons. Embedded in any manufacturer’s existing hardware, our products will independently report accurate position at a very high speed.
SPINS: Inverse Design Software for Nanophotonic Structures
The SPINS software suite automates the design of arbitrary nanophotonic devices by leveraging gradient-based optimization techniques that can explore a large space of possible designs. The resulting devices have higher efficiencies, smaller footprints, and novel functionalities.
Underwater SSS vessel location using M-GPS™
SubSeaSail will apply M-GPS™ technology from AstraNav to underwater location of its Gen7 monohull vessel
Revolutionary passive acoustic sensor arrays
SubSeaSail (SSS) and partner Applied Ocean Sciences are developing highly capable, disruptively affordable passive acoustic arrays with broad application but ideally suited for the SSS long-duration semi-submersible platform
Dramatically improving Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of underwater detection
SubSeaSail will improve overall SNR in a multi-domain, multi-modal maritime domain awareness system with improvements/coordination of 3 key sensor systems (acoustic, electric, and magnetometer) across a fleet of vessels
Miniaturized Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Harsh Environment Sensor
The LIBS sensor identifies elemental compositions of solids and liquids in the field, in real-time– essential for producing the nation’s energy while protecting the environment. LIBS enhances research of domestic sources of rare earth elements and enables sensing and monitoring of chemical processes, assuring effective carbon storage and groundwater quality.
Soft Burrowing Robot for Simple & Non-Invasive Subterranean Locomotion
This technology embodies a soft robot that can burrow through sand or dirt, like a plant root. Through its unique eversion mobility, this robot can navigate tightly constrained environments without imparting undue stress or friction on its surroundings.
An extreme sub-wavelength dual electromagnetic and acoustic on-chip antenna implemented with magnetostrictive/multiferroic nanomagnets actuated by the giant spin Hall effect
Extremely small electromagnetic and acoustic antennas
Passive Thermal Management of rf Components Using Graphene-Based Phase Change Materials
Phase change materials to cool rf antennas by repeated melting and solidification.
Low cost, real-time, visual detection of Volatile Organic Compounds
This technology is a liquid crystal sensor that can detect volatile organic chemicals (VOCs), especially aromatic VOCs. In the presence of VOCs, the liquid crystals drastically change color, allowing for user detection with the unaided eye. These features make the technology ideal for personal sensor badges.
Integrated LC Filter for Power-Dense and Cost-Effective Power Electronics
This novel integrated inductance-capacitance (LC) filter allows generation of lighter, cheaper, and more power-dense power electronic circuits. Our novel LC filter combines the inductor and capacitor into a single element to improve cost-efficiency and ease of manufacturing.
