SBIR-STTR Award

S5 Wireless has developed a patent pending low cost, low power, long range, deep reach Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum-based wireless tracking and telemetry solution for metropolitan telemetry and tracking markets. This solution is designed to be easy and inexpensive to deploy, low cost and low power, with high triangulation accuracy. S5 Wireless believes that this system offers significant advantages over existing and emerging alternative solutions in achieving the objectives of this solicitation, as well as meeting the needs of the commercial shipping industry

In the Phase I SBIR proposal, S5 Wireless tested the applicability of our low cost, low power, long range, wireless tracking and telemetry solution called DeepReach™ to the marine tracking problem of monitoring containers throughout the supply chain. The overall objective was to determine the system architecture necessary to maintain communication with virtually all containers both in port and on ships. S5 Wireless has spent 18 months researching the elements and markets surrounding container tracking for security and supply chain tracking. We invisions a system that will identify containers that have been screened as safe at the point of stuffing, verified as having not been tampered with at the port of debarkation, and confirmed that they have not been tampered with enroute to the United States. This Phase II proposal outlines S5 Wireless’ intent to take the research performed under Phase I, as well as ongoing commercial work, to develop a prototype version of the system that will be productized and deployed in an industry that has 200 million container movements annually, a system with low economic impact on the container shipping industry and on the global supply chain, while achieving benefits in security and supply chain visibility and protection.