Projects

The amount of devices being connected to the internet is rapidly growing. This trend, often referred to as the “Internet of Things” (IoT), illustrates how everyday objects such as cars, TVs and wearables are gradually becoming equipped with sensory technology. These sensors enable the device to collect data from physical events and subsequently communicate about this information with other devices or with centralized IT systems via the ...

IoBaLeT: Sustainable Internet of Battery-Less Things

1) Summary of scientific goals IoBaLeT aims to bring the performance (i.e. throughput, scalability and range) of battery-less IoT networks on-par with its battery-powered counterparts, by enabling active rather than passive communications and computing. An end-to-end networking ...

The SPITE-project aims at finding appropriate solutions for realizing advanced access control in an Internet-of-Things (IoT) setting. The new mechanisms will allow for increased flexibility, adaptability and security by making use of IoT devices to ’trustworthily’ determine the user’s context, and based on this context adapting the required authentication procedure and the prevailing authorization rules. Moreover, some of the solutions can be ...

The project performs fundamental research in the area of wireless communication, aiming for a novel adaptive ultra-wideband (UWB) communication paradigm compatible with the fifth generation wireless communication system and the Internet of Things.

Integrated wireless units for the Internet of Things and the fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication system must provide stable high data rates at a reasonable cost. These new ultrawideband (UWB) devices will be integrated in low-cost objects and deployed in adverse conditions that cause drastic variations in the antenna’s radiation characteristics and RF frontend’s operating point. This project provides a fundamentally new formalism to ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) vision has enabled the wireless connection of billions of batterypowered devices to the Internet. However, batteries are expensive, bulky, cause pollution and degrade after a few years. Replacing and disposing of billions of dead batteries every year is costly and unsustainable. We posit the vision of a sustainable Internet of Battery-Less Things (IoBaLeT). We imagine battery-less devices storing small amounts of ...

Ever since the birth of the Internet in the seventies, the number of devices connected to this network has been growing exponentially. While the Internet was initially a network of generalpurpose computers, it is now common to find consumer products that contain embedded technology to have Internet connectivity. An even more recent trend is that a wide variety of devices, including industrial control systems, robots, cars, but also small ...

Technological progress in current analogue and digital devices together with the miniaturization of hardware have pushed sensing and actuating devices to new heights. Devices can perform more computationally intensive digital signal processing (DSP) tasks for a similar or even lower power budget and more devices can be placed on the same surface area, enriching DSP algorithms with more inputs/outputs and hence more degrees of freedom. When ...