The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced nine awards for new research projects to develop advanced sensing technologies that would enable timely and detailed monitoring and inspection of the structural health of bridges, roadways and water systems that comprise a significant component of the nation’s public infrastructure. The awards are the first to be made under NIST’s new Technology Innovation Program (TIP), which was created to support innovative, high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need where the government has a clear interest because of the magnitude of the problems and their importance to society.
The cost-shared awards announced today initiate up to $88.2 million in new research over the next five years on structure monitoring and inspection technologies, $42.5 million of it potentially funded by TIP.
The nine projects are:
- Development of SCANSn for Advanced Health Management of Civil Infrastructures, lead Acellent Technologies
- Fiber Sensing System for Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring, lead Distributed Sensor Technologies
- Infrastructure Defect Recognition, Visualization and Failure Prediction System Utilizing Ultrawideband Pulse Radar Profilometry, lead ELXSI Corporation
- Microwave Thermoelectric Imager for Corrosion Detection and Monitoring in Reinforced Concrete, lead Newport Sensors
- VOTERS: Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors, lead Northeastern University
- Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Bridge Health Prognosis, lead Physical Acoustics Corporation
- Next Generation SCADA for Prevention and Mitigation of Water System Infrastructure Disaster, lead University of California at Irvine
- Cyber-Enabled Wireless Monitoring Systems for the Protection of Deteriorating National Infrastructure Systems, lead University of Michigan
- Development of Rapid, Reliable and Economic Methods for Inspection and Monitoring of Highway Bridges, lead The University of Texas at Austin
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