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Historical Invocon, Inc. participated as subcontractor to Penn State Advanced Research Laboratory in the Advanced Capabilities Initiative (ACI) sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The system was designed for the U.S. Navy to perform remote machinery diagnostics and prognostics in Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) applications. Invocon designed, developed and fabricated the hardware delivered in the…

Historical NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), Johnson Space Center (JSC), and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) contracted Invocon to develop a system to perform experimental data gathering and recording of environments on and around on-orbit vehicles. The goal of ADDS was to test low power, high accuracy, low mass sensors on orbit prior to the Shuttle/Mir…

Historical NASA had a need to extend the capabilities of wireless sensing to include both pressure and acceleration monitoring. In response to this need, Invocon extended its work from MicroWIS™ into a version that addresses both pressure and acceleration entitled the Advanced MicroWIS. The Advanced MicroWIS was a multiple unit, low power, wireless pressure, and/or acceleration data…

Historical NASA Dryden Flight Research Center contracted with Invocon to develop a multi-sensor detection, automated network, radio-based, low power, relay communications system capable of monitoring in-flight aircraft performance. The network was intended to collect airframe data from remote wireless units installed throughout the aircraft and store that data on a central communications unit on the…

Historical Invocon co-developed hardware and was the principal firmware designer for a multi-unit wireless pulse and breathing rate detection system.  Each BodyLAN unit operated in one of two modes.  The real-time clinical mode sampled skin deflection due to blood pulses at 512 Hz. The data was transmitted wirelessly to a PC with a BodyLAN receiver…

Historical Invocon developed a low-power Conformal Ice Sensor for Boeing’s version of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The flush-mounted sensor was developed to detect ice underneath the de-icing boots near the leading edge skins and engine air intake nacelles of the aircraft.  The sensor used multiple MEMS transducers along with software algorithms to determine the…

Historical The Extended-Life Micro-miniature Wireless Instrumentation System (ELMWIS) is a wireless data acquisition network for near-static sensing and recording applications. It was designed as a combination of the original MicroWIS™ and MicroRecorder™ systems which enables it to both store and communicate wirelessly. The ELMWIS Remote Unit (pictured)is a small, extremely low-power, autonomous, wireless device designed for extended data acquisition and recording.…

Historical Invocon concluded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the Department of Transportation to develop an ESBAWM system. The purpose of ESBAWM is to monitor and log ballast exchanges in oceanic cargo vessels. These type of ships are required to perform a deep-ocean ballast exchange between ports to reduce the risk…

Historical In 1996 NASA awarded Invocon a contract to design and build a GPS controller that would act as an interface and data recorder between a GPS Trimble Advanced Navigation (TANS) Receiver unit and the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) Satellite data communications system. The controller was mounted on the cross-bay structure that supported the Wake…