Engineering:Micropower impulse radar

Micropower impulse radar is a low-power ultra wideband radar developed in the mid-1990s at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, used for sensing and measuring distances to objects in proximity to each other.

Commercial applications include:

• Vehicles: parking assistance, backup warnings, pre-collision detection and smart cruise control (measures the distance to the vehicles in front of you and if they get too close, throttle is released and brakes are applied).
• Appliances: studfinders and laser tape measures.
• Security: home intrusion motion sensors and perimeter surveillance.
• Search and rescue: micropower impulse radar can detect the beating of a human heart or respiration from long distances.

External links

• "LLNL Engineering Micropower Impulse Radar Search and Rescue". LLNL Industrial Partnering and Technology Transfer Process. October 3, 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-02-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20070211204252/http://www-eng.llnl.gov/mir/mir_search_rescue.html. 
• "Micropower Impulse Radar (MIR)". LLNL Industrial Partnerships Office. https://ipo.llnl.gov/technologies/micropower_impulse_radar.