MIPS Project Detail:
Company
Company Description:
Founded in 2008, the mission of Resensys is to protect infrastructure systems against aging, structural malfunction, and collapse. Resensys offers a cost-effective and scalable solution for the real-time monitoring of important structural state quantities such as stress, strain, fatigue cracks, vibration, etc. Resensys’ solution is based on its patented SenSpot technology, which incorporates novel sensing, energy harvesting and wireless communication technologies into a small, multi-sensor device with more than one decade of battery life.
MIPS Project
Hybrid Power Cells for Bridge Health Monitoring
Project #
4312
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MIPS Round
43
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Starting Date:
Feb 2009
MIPS Project Challenge:
Resensys has developed advanced, low-power, wireless sensors to detect problems in bridges, tunnels, buildings, airframes, pipelines and other structures. The company was investigating potential power sources and energy harvesting technologies for its sensors.
Project Scope:
The goal of Resensys’ MIPS project was to adapt a thin-film battery to work with the company’s sensors. Through the project, Resensys discovered optimal methods for energy harvesting, RF-harvesting and DC/DC conversion.
Results:
Resensys now has more than 100 major customers and has acquired more than $5.1 million in combined grant money and sales. The company employs four full-time and five part-time employees. Resensys is seeking approval from state and federal authorities for its sensor technologies.
Resensys’ SenSpot sensors are currently installed on hundreds of major bridges in the U.S. and around the World. In Maryland, more than 20 fracture-critical bridges have been monitored since 2012.
Kalantari is a serial entrepreneur. He also founded the technology behind (and the company) Macrophage, which later became RioRey. He won funding in the University of Maryland $75K Business Plan Competition for both companies.
Principal Investigator:
Martin
Peckerar
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Manager:
Mehdi
Kalantari
President / CTO
Technologies:
Instrumentation
