Enabling IoT Applications With More Value

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For these reasons, in 2015, we built a development platform for distributed IoT applications, a platform on which applications can be tried out and simulated at an early stage. Everyone using the platform can also plug in their own sensors and transmitters, which is handy when it comes to testing concepts for networking and security, or for simulating what happens if an application is expanded to using 10,000 sensors. We are using the platform to set up partner consortiums on certain applications, such as the precise measuring of air quality.

We have begun working on R&D for security and privacy – an area that is relatively new for imec. For example, we are looking at solutions capable of using location to decide whether someone is allowed to access an application. This prevents the smart sensors and actuators in your car or home of being manipulated remotely. And in the area of secure hardware, we are examining how we can develop PUF solutions (physical unclonable functions) without making the ICs larger or more expensive.

In 2015 we also continued working on highly sophisticated building blocks for communication in the future IoT. We are developing low-power sensors for specific applications, as well as a series of transmitters that cover the wide range of needs in the IoT (extremely economical, very flexible, high data rates).

* Harmke De Groot is working as Senior Director for Perceptive Systems at imec and Holst Centre.

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