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A Tool for Risk-Based Maintenance and Inspection of the LPD 17
Title: Assistant Vice President
Phone: (310) 320-3088
Email: sutama@poc.com
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (310) 320-3088
Email: gdrew@poc.com
Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to design and develop an entirely new wireless network for recovery of wide-band sensor data. This network is based on the Information Technology-Enhanced Asymmetric Sensor Star (ITEASS) architecture, whichconsists of an asymmetric communication interface (CI) for both longer-distance (100 mile) BLOS (beyond-line-of-sight) communication between a relay and processing center and short-distance (5 mile) sensor wireless LAN (WLAN) with LPI and LPD. Theproposed network has exceptionally high tolerance to multipath errors, necessary for sensors fielded in urban and littoral areas. System novelties include: low millisecond latency, essential to real-time interaction sensor control; PCMCIA sensor-specificcommunication interface; IT-superhigh compression encoding for wide-band sensor data; and spread-spectrum-code-division-multiplexing access (SSCDMA) software and hardware. The ITEASS will be modular to accommodate diverse sensors (TV, video, wide-band RF,radar imaging, sonar, acoustic, seismic, and EO/IR imagery). It will operate at 50 MHz for BLOS: TCDL, CDL, IDL; and ~1 GHz for the sensor LAN. The stand-alone system will cost only ~$100 per board, in spite of its supercomputer-class 8BOPS distributedprocessing power. It will be compact (2 in. x 3 in. PCB); low-power (~1 W); mass-producible; and designed for both required modes of operation: snap shots and streaming.Commercial applications include the rapidly growing world markets for cellularvideophones (2.5G and 3G), video conferencing, IP-streaming video, and video surveillance, which together are expected to generate annual sales of $250 billion in the year 2002.
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