An experimental UWB module-based sensing and communication system

An experimental UWB system is developed, designed, prototyped and tested to support a number of multitask sensing and telecommunication applications in the 0.1-3.0 GHz band, viz. subsurface radar or GPR, intrusion sensor, "trough-wall seeing" scanner, indoor comm. & geolocation and so on. As such, a set of hardware modules has to be created that can be combined/assembled in a particular fashion/architecture for each specific mission including functioning with receiving and transmitting UWB arrays (a part of our ongoing R&D efforts). The basic system components involve: (1) transmitter (Tx), (2) receiver (Rx), (4) antennas, (5) control unit, (6) digitizer and comp interface. As well, controlling and processing software is an inherent part of each such system that has to be configured for each specific operational task