A Consortium for Security and Medical Sensor Systems

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook

Research and Technology Transfer

The goal of the research and technology transfer component is to provide a permanent infrastructure to promote research and technology transfer in security and medical sensor systems. This is built upon the success of the Sensor CAT (Center for Advanced Technology) and Stony Brook’s Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations (OTLIR). Our research partners include Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and the industry partners of the Sensor CAT. The major proposed activity in this component is the establishment of searchable, web-based, Research Database to serve the partners of the Sensor Consortium; and an annual Technology Transfer Conference that the Sensor Consortium will cosponsor with the OTLIR.

The Research Database will be useful for our industrial partners seeking expertise in a specific area from the Research partners of the Sensor Consortium. Our vision is that the Research Database will allow companies, especially small businesses without much R&D facility, to utilize the research capabilities of the research partners of the Sensor Consortium. Say a small company developing a medical sensor needs to deploy non-linear noise reduction technique to filter out noises in the signal could use the Research Database to identify experts in this area. If there is a match between the need of the company and, say a faculty member at Stony Brook or a research group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a proposal can be submitted to the Sensor CAT who would consider supporting the project.

The Sensor Consortium will also work with the OTLIR to promote technology transfer. It can be a liaison between our research and industrial partners and Stony Brook’s OTLIR. When a promising idea or solution is developed by our research partners, the Sensor Consortium will facilitate talks between the inventor and the OTLIR. Furthermore, the Sensor Consortium will cosponsor an annual Technology Transfer Conference with the OTLIR. In this conference, research projects at Stony Brook and BNL will be showed-cased to our industrial partners to stimulate talks of Technology Transfer.

The partners of the Research and Technology Transfer components are: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Stony Brook’s Sensor CAT and its affiliated industrial sponsors; and Stony Brook’s OTLIR (Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations). The scientific staff of BNL, along with the faculty of Stony Brook, will form the research backbone of the Sensor Consortium. It will support the Technology E-Team Program by providing a large pool of scientists and experts to give technical guidance to the E-Teams. With the establishment of the Research and Funding Database and facilitation of the Sensor CAT, these faculty and scientists will also have the opportunity to join forces with our industrial partners to pursue research and development projects in national security and medical sensor systems.

Sensor CAT and the OTLIR are critical partners of the Technology Transfer component. Sensor CAT with its large number of industrial clients will act as a liaison between the Sensor Consortium and the industrial community. It will assist in the solicitation of RFPs from its industrial clients for the Technology E-Team Program, it will help its industrial partners to identify expertise from Stony Brook’s faculty and BNL’s scientific staff, and it will be a liaison between the Sensor Consortium and the small and women/minority owned and managed business community; it will also assist individuals interested in starting his/her own business. The Sensor Consortium will work with the OTLIR to promote and assist technology transfer to the commercial sectors. An annual Technology Transfer conference will be cosponsored among the Sensor CAT, Sensor Consortium and the OTLIR.

The major proposed activity in this component is the establishment of searchable, web-based, Research and Funding Databases to serve the partners of the Sensor Consortium; and an annual Technology Transfer Conference that the Sensor Consortium will cosponsor with the OTLIR.

The Research Database will be useful for our industrial partners seeking expertise in a specific area from the Research partners of the Sensor Consortium. Our vision is that the Research Database will allow companies, especially small businesses without much R&D facility, to utilize the research capabilities of the research partners of the Sensor Consortium. Say a small company developing a medical sensor needs to deploy non-linear noise reduction technique to filter out noises in the signal could use the Research Database to identify experts in this area. If there is a match between the need of the company and, say a faculty member at Stony Brook or a research group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a proposal can be submitted to Sensor CAT who would consider supporting the project.

The Funding Database will be useful to our research partners seeking research funding to develop a specific idea or product. This database will provide a search engine to link to all federal funding agencies. It will provide a centralized, searchable, web-based resource for our research partners.