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Albido Corporation is responding to a growing need for advanced, cost-effective, highly reliable, durable, and non-intrusive systems for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM). Such systems shall include temperature, strain, pressure, and torque sensing devices that have both sensitivity and time resolution high enough to not only recognize failing machinery but to specifically identify the failing part. The SHM / CBM systems must be able to detect failures in their early stages such that repairs would be less expensive or critical conditions could be recognized early such that preventive actions can be taken to avoid possible damage. Monitoring of mechanical structures and early detection of potential failures is becoming more and more important. Albido is developing a variety of wireless, true passive sensors based on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) strain measurement technology. SAW sensors can be interrogated wirelessly from a distance of several meters. Requiring no physical connection to a power supply or the interrogator unit, the SAW sensors can be strategically placed providing on-demand information pertaining to the condition of key components and structures. Sensors can be located in hard to reach locations and a multitude of sensors responding to a single interrogator can be placed on the platform resulting in higher fault detection accuracy, improving diagnostics and prognostics.