The Boeing Company

Kenneth Porad

Gary E Georgeson

Marc Rollo Matsen

Arun Ayyagari

Everett A Westerman

Kevin Yong Ung

Craig Farris Battles

David B Blackwell

Methods and systems for structural and component health monitoring are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor systems positioned about an object to be monitored and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said plurality of sensor systems wherein the processing system includes an ontology and reasoning module configured to model the object to be monitored, reason about the received sensor data associated with the object to be monitored and reason about the relationships between the received sensor data to fuse the data into contextual information for the overall object to be monitored and a contextual analyzer configured to transmit the received sensor data to said ontology and reasoning module and to store the information into a contextual information database.

Methods and systems for monitoring structures and systems

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an RFID label is attached to an item (e.g., a metal object or a metal surface of the item) via an absorber to reduce electromagnetic interference.

Reducing electromagnetic interference in radio frequency identification applications

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Tacoma, WA, United States of America

Kenneth Porad