Miniature Deployable Assistance System – MiDAS™
Solar Powered Water Purification Systems
MiDAS™ components can be used separately or as part of a system-of-systems designed to be deployed quickly to austere environments where essential services are not immediately available.
Key features include:
- Water filtration and purification equipment with the capability to produce potable water from freshwater, brackish water and seawater.
- Reliable, hybrid power for primary MiDAS services (water purification and communications) capable of operating independently or as an integrated kit.
- Interoperable global communications (voice, text and email) in austere or degraded environments; independent of existing
communications infrastructure. - Access to commercial imagery and locational data on aid personnel, images and voice tracks for time-critical situational awareness and mission planning.
- Quality assurance and testing prior to shipment
- Information sharing on threats and/or status (e.g., recovery efforts, local populace, services, environment and infrastructure).
- The Joint Modular Intermodal Container is a U.S. Military approved light-weight container that provides easy access to container contents, uniform in size, easy to transfer and collapses to reduce space requirements when not in use.
- Each component is contained within transportable cases and may be transported in a civilian Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) or military type HUMVEE. Modularity of the system enables only the components required for the mission to be removed from the container.
PRODUCTS SPECS.
CATEGORY |
Units/Desc. |
Data US (METRIC) |
| OPERATING DIMENSIONS: | OPEN | Area for deployment of solar array, water purification, communications and container is 400 square feet |
| TRANSPORT DIMENSIONS: | CLOSED | JMIC Intermodal Container: 43.75 inches long, 52 inches wide, 43.25 inches high (1.1 meters long, 1.3 meters wide, 1.1 meters high). |
| WEIGHT: | DRY | Approx. 762 lbs (345 kg) |
| CONSTRUCTION: | VARIOUS MATERIALS | Structural aluminum container; hard shell plastic cases provide storage for all copmonents and equipment |
| 5 SOLAR PANELS: | TOTAL WATTAGE | Four (4) 120 watt and one (1) 30 watt rugged, flexible, high efficiency crystalline solar modules |
| 1 AUX GENERATOR: | TOTAL WATTAGE | 2.0 kW generated by Honda EU20000I |
| BATTERIES: | CAPACITY | Lithium-ion 2 kWh OASYS System, 24-28V |
| 1 POWER MANAGEMENT: | VDC/VAC/kW | 24VDC in: selectable output 120/60Hz VAC single phase, 220/50Hz VAC single phase, Up to 1.5 KW peak, 3kW surge power, 415 watts sustained power with 5 hours of solar input; auxiliary generator input and generator are included. |
| WATER PURIFICATION ULTRAFILTRATION OR REVERSE OSMOSIS: |
OUTPUT | SHEPS (Solar Hybrid Expeditionary Power & Purification) Freshwater purifies up to 60 gallons (227 liters) per hour; multiple levels of filtration, including a screen filter, sediment filter, carbon filter and ultrafiltration. SHEPS RO purifies up to 18 gallons (68 liters) per hour from water with TDS less than 45,000 PPM; includes pre-screen filter and sediment filter. |
| COMMUNICATIONS | SITUATIONAL AWARENESS | GVIS (Global Visual Information System). Provides beyond line-of-sight communciation using satellite technology; integrates into existing cell phone network; consists of one (1) laptop with BGAN and five (5) ruggedized cell phones with satellite uplink |
