ERDC Innovation
ERDC’s breakthrough electronics and sensing technologies offer new ways to detect harmful contamination, radiation, and chemicals. Explore these technologies for more information on how they can benefit your business.
• Uses physics-based 3-D models and real-world inputs to determine optimal sensor selection and placement
• Can be used in the field without technical expertise
• Provides meaningful data without in-person surveillance in inhospitable terrain
• Helps integrate airflow considerations into design process to meet codes and safety standards
• Provides airflow data in near real-time, allowing designers to quickly check impact of choices
• Saves design time and reduces building and maintenance costs
• Detects localized stress and pressure with greater sensitivity compared to conventional sensors
• Abundant silicon enables safe, scalable sensing deployment
• Luminescence provides instant readings without structural damage
• Uses DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes and an enzyme-mediated process to link individual nanotubes into visible macroscopic structures without damage
• Solves manipulation challenge through controlled biological process, preserving nanotubes' superior strength, electrical conductivity, and thermal properties for practical use
• Enables high-performance structural materials for aerospace/automotive, advanced electronics requiring superior conductivity, and applications needing exceptional strength-to-weight ratios and thermal properties
• Achieves a 10-35% space reduction compared to standard rackmount chassis
• Internal lattice walls operate as heat exchangers, and a built-in control unit monitors and adjusts temperature, humidity, vibration, and more as needed
• Designed to enable high-performance, upgradeable COTS computing in harsh, vehicle, and field environments
• Low-cost, low-power, and low-maintenance
• Bypasses need for expensive infrastructure and offers extended range between nodes
• Supports emergency navigations
• Directional sensing without the need for heavy shielding
• Small and lightweight with low power requirements compared to state of the art
• Strong signal-to-noise ratio
• Field-ready
• On-site detection of RDX & NTO in soil and water samples
• Fast-acting: binds to over 50% of available RDX & NTO in just one hour
• Achieves nearly 100% of the theoretical binding capacity
• Streamlined process for detecting explosives in soil, water, or tissue samples
• Simultaneously detects traditional TNT and newer IMX
• Single column analysis yields faster results
• Reduces cost by using less solvent
• Instantly senses turbidity, temperature, conductivity, pH, oxidation reduction, dissolved oxygen, free chlorine, and more
• Wireless transmission
• Easy-to-use touch screen display
• Portable
• Remote monitoring
