A Near-Zero Power Wireless IoT Testing Facility
Abstract
The equipment requested in this proposal is to form part of a Near-Zero Power Wireless IoT Testing Facility at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. With the recent thrust in ultra-low power Internet of Things (IoT)-like devices, there is an urgent need to be able to accurately characterize these devices at very low power levels (e.g., nanowatt and picowatt) and in complex environments (e.g., with interference present, networked with other devices, etc.). UCSD is a world-renowned research university and currently has several federally funded research projects in this area that would benefit from adding this equipment infrastructure. For example, a recently published wake-up radio developed as part of a DARPA award demonstrated state-of-the-art performance besting prior art by over an order of magnitude in both sensitivity and power. This wake-up receiver consumes less than 10 nW of power ??? the equivalent power loss of a coin cell battery sitting on a desk with nothing connected to it! The requested equipment, a multichannel arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) would enable us to characterize this device in realistic deployment scenarios such as when surrounded by interfering communications and even tactical countermeasure techniques such as jamming. The multichannel feature of this equipment would also facilitate the testing of networks of these wakeup receiver nodes as might be used in infrastructure monitoring or battleground deployment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 10, 2018
- Source ID
- N000141812350
Entities
People
- Drew A Hall
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, San Diego