Smart and Secure Internet of Things Gateways

Purpose and goal:

The purpose of the project was to enable smart, secure and energy-efficient IoT applications by developing an AI-accelerated, secure IoT gateway. The goal of the project was to provide a secure and energy-efficient architecture for AI accelerators and to evaluate it in several IoT applications. The AI accelerator has been designed and implemented within the Imsys processor family. The accelerator has been tested in a simulator and an FPGA environment and evaluated in three IoT applications.

Expected results and effects:

The result of the project is the secure and energy-efficient AI accelerator that can be used for, among other things, secure and smart IoT gateways. The need targeted in the project (secure and energy-efficient IoT applications) has increased during the course of the project, and we expect that the interest in the accelerator will lead to both innovation projects and products.

Approach and implementation:

The project was run in a way that allowed the participating parties to work with the respective sub-project relatively parallel - for example by being able to simulate and test the IoT applications before a full FPGA implementation was fully developed. As there were some delays due to low FPGA supply, the project needed a little longer than the 24 months that were planned - however, this mainly delayed the tests on the FPGA and not development of the use-case IoT applications.

Project with a need for relatively unique hardware are at risk of being affected by this type of delay.