Patent ID: 9729193
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H05K

Claim:
1. A wireless sensor, comprising: a flexible substrate formed of at least one of a paper material and a fabric material having at least one surface that is electrically insulating; and a plurality of components disposed on the at least one surface, the plurality of components comprising a communications system, at least one sensor device communicatively coupled to the communications system, and at least one antenna electrically coupled to the communications system; wherein each of the at least one sensor device and the at least one antenna is a planar device fabricated using ink during an ink printing process performed by an ink printing machine, the ink defining high conductivity printed metal lines; wherein the communications system receives sensor signals from the at least one sensor device, encodes the sensor signals into a bit sequence via code shift keying using a spread spectrum coding, and transmits the bit sequence; and wherein the communications system comprises a transmitter power equal to 10 milliwatts and a range of over 5 miles that are at least partially enabled using a pulse thermal processing (“PTP”) curing process to cure the high conductivity printed metal lines at a low thermal budget on the flexible substrate with a processing temperature less than or equal to 200° C.