Johns Hopkins University

Marshall J Jose

Michael P McLoughlin

Micah A Carlson

Charles W Kerechanin, Ii

Edward P Rhyne

Robert F Henrick

Nicholas H Evancich

Keith A Soldavin

Gerad D House

Henry A Kues, Jr

Eric J Van Gieson

Colin Z Sheldon

Jennifer N Dumiak

An example apparatus for establishing a communications link is provided. The example apparatus may include a phased array antenna, a radio frequency beamformer, and a processor. The processor may be in operable communication with the radio frequency beamformer and configured to operate as an antenna controller. As the antenna controller, the processor may be configured to direct the radio frequency beamformer to steer an antenna beam generated by the phased array antenna in a plurality of beam directions across an operating range of the phased array antenna, determine a signal strength of a source signal received by the phased array antenna at each beam direction, determine a current beam direction, and direct the radio frequency beamformer to steer the antenna beam to the current beam direction.

Apparatus and method for establishing and maintaining a communications link

A monitoring system and method for detecting environmental conditions is provided, the monitoring system including a sensing unit including a plurality of sensors for obtaining data related to environmental conditions, a controller interfaced with the sensing unit for receiving and encoding the data related to environmental conditions into a predetermined format using a base64 encoding scheme, and a communication device for receiving the data in the predetermined format from the controller, forming an e-mail message (which can be further encoded) including instructions on how to decode the email message and transmitting the e-mail message including the data in the predetermined format to at least one predetermined recipient.

System and method for monitoring environmental conditions

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New Windsor, MD, United States of America

Marshall J Jose