SBIR/STTR Award attributes
An ad hoc network of small computing nodes is used to gather sensor measurements available from distributed sensor systems. Traditional communications (comm) systems used by sensor networks rely on a hub and spoke architecture that is prone to bottle-necks and routing disruptions. In a cluster or formation or mobile systems, routing of data must be more dynamic and ideally would make use of diverse pathways and data media to route data. We are proposing a system for gathering health data from a distributed network of sensors like those that might be on a ship or aircraft, to a central location for fault detection processing.