SBIR/STTR Award attributes
Homeland and base security require the ability for WMD-CST, HAZMAT, and AF Emergency Management teams to detect, analyze, and monitor chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear events (CBRN). Today, these first responders suit up in protective gear and walk with their sensors, directly into gaseous plumes in order to collect and analyze samples of these hazardous materials, putting their lives in immediate danger. It also significantly limits their ability to monitor multiple concurrent events as well as their ability to collect sufficient data to optimize real-time knowledge of the true behavior of these chemical plumes as they move through the air. Because a person is currently required to physically take the samples, it may take four to six hours to have a team in place ready to take samples. With that, the number of samples those individuals can collect are limited based on the mobility of the person and equipment. Riis’ technology has the capacity to collect this chemistry inexpensively and at a reduced risk to the user. This allows for multiple observations through in three dimensional space and over time, creating both a baseline model for the plume, with appropriate placement, and control view of the plume as it progresses.
