Descrizione del progetto
Una progettazione innovativa per il nodo sensore IoT
Il rapido miglioramento tecnologico nell’industria dei semiconduttori ha portato a un boom nei dispositivi di piccole dimensioni. Tuttavia un dispositivo elettronico che riduca drasticamente il proprio consumo energetico e che possa essere alimentato da una fonte alternativa di energia verde, consentendo al contempo di ottenere la visione dell’Internet delle cose (IoT), rappresenta una vera e propria sfida. Il progetto UBIGIoT, finanziato dall’UE, adotterà un approccio sinergico, intervenendo su raccoglitori multisorgente e sulla progettazione di un sistema su chip, con l’obiettivo di aumentare l’efficienza energetica di un nodo sensore IoT. Il progetto accelererà i tempi di commercializzazione e ridurrà i costi dei nodi sensori wireless autonomi dal punto di vista energetico. UBIGIoT affronterà gli impegnativi problemi relativi alle prestazioni, verificando e convalidando inoltre l’efficacia di tale approccio in dimostrazioni di interesse industriale.
Obiettivo
"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."
Campo scientifico
- 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
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinatore
16126 Genova
Italia