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Historical Invocon developed a synchronous, real-time wireless data acquisition system for the flight-testing of aircraft. This Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I system consisted of a four-unit, low power, data acquisition and communications network capable of monitoring in-flight aircraft performance. The WATS system operates by transmitting data at 916MHz from remote sensor…

Historical The Wide-Band Micro-Miniature Tri-Axial Accelerometer Unit (WB MicroTAU) system is a wireless, high-speed data acquisition network for dynamic acceleration sensing and recording applications. The system includes WB MicroTAU Remote Units, a WB MicroTAU Receiver Unit, and the Graphical User Interface (GUI). The WB MicroTAU Remote Unit is a small, battery-powered, autonomous, wireless device designed…

Historical A Wireless Data Acquisition System was developed for NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) to be used ultimately on the International Space Station (ISS) as well as for many experimental applications on the Shuttle. The foundation for this system began with the prototype Sensor Control and Telecommunications System (SCAT).  Phase II development for the WDAS started…

Historical NASA Dryden Flight Research Center contracted Invocon to develop a proof-of-concept system that would allow the control of aircraft with radio frequency links between the pilot controls and the flight control surfaces on the wings. Nicknamed the “Wireless Flight Control System” (WFCS), the requirement involved the design of suppressed carrier, spread spectrum, high redundancy,…

Historical The success of the WDAS experiment spurred NASA to award a series of Phase III contracts to apply the technology to environmental monitoring on the International Space Station (ISS).  Invocon designed and built wireless data acquisition systems that have successfully flown on multiple ISS Assembly flights. Invocon is currently contracted to support flight operations. The system…

Historical NASA Dryden Flight Research Center awarded Invocon a contract to gather and process data from airframes that would be used to predict failures in critical airframe structures.  The sensor network gathered and transported sensor data for complex, real-time, mathematical transformations that must differentiate normal airframe behavior from the behavior of the structure containing a…

Historical NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) awarded a contract to Invocon to design a data gathering system for pressure information in orbit. Mounted on the Wake Shield Facility Satellite. The system collected data on the pressures experienced on the surface of the Satellite when the RCS (Reaction Control System) jets on the Shuttle were fired…