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Food deserts are among the major contributing factors to food insecurity. There are more than 6,500 food desert tracts in the U.S., home to 23.5 million Americans. Rural food deserts are more than 10 miles from the nearest grocery store, and this distance poses extraordinary challenges for those who do not have a vehicle or cannot drive. In urban food deserts, people's grocery store inaccessibilit ...

Curing concrete properly is essential for strength gain and durability. While the importance of curing is widely known, all too often curing is not properly executed in practice. This proposal outlines a sensing system that will have three functions: · to record the weather conditions during the concrete placement. · to document how the implemented curing impacts a known concrete system. · to p ...

To support Next Generation Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Situational Awareness applied research goals, Certus Group proposes the deployment of multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in a meshed configuration to enable collaborative autonomous sensing on littoral targets of strategic interest in a GPS denied environment. In order to develop this capability, a number of tec ...

This project intends to develop a sensor system that allows in-situ measurement of concrete’s pore solution resistivity, to supplement existing procedures for durability assessment. The innovation includes one or more sensors that are embedded inside concrete and a mobile measuring device to interrogate the sensor.Phase I project will explore candidate body materials for the sensor, manufacturin ...

Design Interactive, Inc. (DI) proposes development of Greenlight, a readiness assessment technology designed to objectively measure drivers’ alertness before operating a commercial motor vehicle (CMV). Greenlight also provides tools for improving readiness by mitigating fatigue via monitoring and managing stress. This capability will contribute to an overall reduction in crashes due to drowsy dr ...

With nearly 30 traffic fatalities caused by alcohol-related impacts every day in the Unites States, efforts have been made to reduce recidivism of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) incidents, including the implementation and use of Ignition Interlock Devices (IIDs). However, IIDs do not impact non-compliance rates once the IID programs are completed. There is a need for a mobile application that sig ...

Current military navigation systems are heavily reliant on Global Positioning System (GPS) signals. Advances in adversaries jamming techniques can compromise GPS capabilities and has placed our military forces at risk. Thus, there is a need to maintain mid/course navigation and precision terminal guidance in a GPS Contested Environment. The focus of this problem is on the Stand Off Precision Guide ...

According to a recent survey, 178 million trips are taken across U.S.’s 46,000 structurally deficient bridges every day. Due to concerns over their actual load-carrying capacity, some of these bridges have posted weight and speed restrictions. The lack of enforcement of these load postings is an issue nationwide and presents risks for human lives and costly failures. To address this issue, this ...

The objective of this VAS rangefinder Phase I SBIR effort is to complete key enabling trade studies which will inform the development of the range finder through a Phase II effort. The resulting VAS rangefinder will be a low-cost, easy-to-use device that is capable of operating 24/7 in urban or near-urban environments with ambient light sources.

Requirement of a portable device that can translate spoken conversations between Taiwan Hokkien and English. No commercially available product exists that can provide this capability, which is 100% disconnected from the cloud. The first challenge is to ensure the device's portability and accuracy of the translation without an Internet connection. The second challenge is the lack of existing data t ...