Descripción del proyecto
Diseño innovador del nodo sensor de internet de las cosas
La rápida mejora tecnológica de la industria de los semiconductores ha conllevado un auge de los dispositivos pequeños. El desarrollo de un dispositivo electrónico con un consumo de energía extremadamente bajo y que pueda ser alimentado por una fuente alternativa de energía verde que facilite la visión del internet de las cosas (IdC) constituye todo un reto. En el proyecto UBIGIoT, financiado con fondos europeos, se empleará un enfoque sinérgico, centrándose en los recolectores de múltiples fuentes y el diseño de sistema en un chip, para aumentar la eficiencia energética de un nodo sensor de IdC. El proyecto acelerará el tiempo de comercialización y reducirá el coste de unos nodos de sensores inalámbricos con autosuficiencia energética. En UBIGIoT se abordarán problemas complejos relacionados con el rendimiento y, además, se verificará y validará la eficacia de este enfoque en demostraciones de interés industrial.
Objetivo
"The rapid technological improvement in the semiconductor industry has enabled smaller and smaller devices to pervade our everyday lives. The real challenge in reducing the size to facilitate a ubiquitous integration of smart functions in any “thing” is drastically reducing the power consumption that constrains the volume to the presence of bulky batteries. An electronic device that dramatically reduces its power consumption can be powered by an alternative ""green"" source of energy such as light or vibration enabling the vision of the “Internet of Things”.
In this scenario, the proposed research activity is intended to substantially enhance the energy efficiency of an IoT sensor node by a synergetic approach targeting both multisource harvesters and the System-on-Chip (SoC) design. The latter one aims in a comprehensive approach in which the macroblocks of different nature are designed exploiting at most an automated (digital) design flow.
On this basis, a dramatic human-design effort reduction and silicon area for the same operation is expected for any SoC by a factor in the range of 10x-100x. This implies a faster time-to-market and a reduced cost of energy-autonomous Wireless Sensor Nodes. Challenging problems to be addressed are performance (i.e. resolution, speed).
The effectiveness of the proposed approach will be verified and validated on demonstrators of industrial interest. The project targets to be innovative, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral across academies, an EU-based semiconductor company, and partners from MS and TC mostly based in the ASEN."
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssemiconductivity
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrymetalloids
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinador
16126 Genova
Italia