Thermal Imaging Inspection System Project

The summary for the Thermal Imaging Inspection System Project grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the DOT Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Thermal Imaging Inspection System Project: The Secretary of Transportation shall carry out a demonstration project that uses a thermal imaging inspection system (TIIS) that leverages state-of-the-art thermal imagery technology, integrated with signature recognition software, providing the capability to identify, in real time, faults and failures in tires, brakes and bearings mounted on commercial motor vehicles. Funds under this project shall be used to employ a TIIS in a field environment, along the Interstate, to further assess the system's ability to identify faults in tires, brakes, and bearings mounted on commercial motor vehicles; to establish, through statistical analysis, the probability of failure for each component; and to develop and integrate a predictive tool into the TIIS, which identifies an impending tire, brake, or bearing failure and provides the user a time frame in which this failure may occur. This project shall be conducted at multiple sites including the FMCSA's Roadside Test Lab (RTL) located at an operational weigh station on Interstate 81 in Eastern Tennessee. This project is one of several FMCSA-sponsored projects planned for the RTL. The project will involve the participation of the Tennessee Department of Safety (TDOS), but grant applicants do not need to establish contact with or formal agreements with TDOS in developing their grant applications. Affliation with or connection to TDOS is not a factor in the grant evaluation criteria. Background information, related FMCSA research, and answers to questions from potential applicants have been posted to the full annoucement page for this opportunity.