Flexible Power (AKA Ironman)

Inspiration

Flexible Power is about equipping the war fighter for efficient and effective surveillance and for the easy, power efficient transfer of data to HQ.

What it does

Flexible Power kinetically creates power while war fighters march/hike/surveil targets using ARL technology developed for the DARPA Warrior Web Program. We'll focus our pitch on reducing the weight the War Fighter carries on a mission and we'll utilize the Warrior Web to make the load lighter until we iterate a more efficient battery. We have some transmission suggestions but they're not the focus of our project - All non-essential functions are stripped from major power-drawing devices (routers, computers) and those functions are completed by stripped down iPhones where necessary. The Raspberry Pi acts as an energy efficient router with a special 3-D antenna included for transmission via HAM radio to a pre-agreed-upon location.

How we built it

By creating a team of individuals who reflect our values.

Challenges we ran into

Limitations of the technology.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our team of two interviewed more than 20 mentors to get a clear picture as to what the War Fighter experiences in the field and we augmented our team to include an application developer and a software engineer to prove out our concept.

What we learned

Innovation may know no boundaries but physics does - we welcome the opportunity to layer our technology, to iterate, to pivot, to learn, grow, and change as the requirements of our customers change.

What's next for Flexible Power (AKA Ironman)

Once we complete a friends and family round of funding, we'll pursue $400K in a seed round before launching into a series of opportunities for investors. We anticipate needing $5-$10M in R&D and our time to market of our MVP is 18 months.

Built With

• 3-d-printed-antenna
• ham-radio
• ios
• raspberry-pi