The cost of hard-wiring alone advocates the implementation of a wireless sensing system. However, in the Aviation and Aerospace industries, real estate is at a premium and weight considerations greatly impact the design of the vehicle. A wireless solution is the viable option for installation of a Condition Based Maintenance/Prognostic Health Monitoring system. Oceana Sensor's involvement with the Joint Strike Fighter program performing wireless engine health monitoring emphasizes this point.

Structural Integrity Prognostics System (SIPS)

Oceana Sensor Technologies is currently participating as subcontractor to Northrop Grumman on this DARPA research program. The objective of this program is to provide detection of the incidence of impending structural failure in an aircraft. Researchers from a number of universities and industry have been participating in this program in order to describe the material properties and environmental conditions that contribute to failure. There are two major required outcomes identified for this program. One is the assembly of material failure mechanisms, material properties, prognostic algorithms and flight data into a ground-based SIPS system for predicting Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the aircraft structural element being monitored. The other is the provision of an airborne data acquisition and logging system for obtaining and recording flight data acquired by sensor systems for subsequent downloading and transmission to the ground-based SIPS system. OST is providing the data logger with associated sensors for acquiring strain and other environmental data relating to structural condition for wireless transmission to a wireless-enabled receiver and subsequent transmission to the SIPS system.

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