UBIGIoT “Ultra-Low Design-Effort, Energy-Efficient, and Battery-Indifferent Sensor Node for the Green Internet of Things” is an EU MSCA staff exchange program (ID: 10101086359) intended to substantially enhance the energy efficiency of an IoT sensor node by a synergetic approach targeting both multisource harvesters and System-on-Chip (SoC) design. The latter aims for a comprehensive approach in which macroblocks of different natures are designed by exploiting at most an automated (digital) design flow.
Its effectiveness will be verified and validated with demonstrators of industrial interest. The project targets to be innovative, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral across academics, an EU-based semiconductor company and partners from the ASEAN (East Asia) and Lebanon.
ECS4DRES is a European project involving 27 partners from 5 countries, funded by the Chips Joint Undertaking (grant agreement no. 101139790) and by Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Slovakia.
ECS4DRES aims to deliver a set of interoperable mature solutions centred around energy conversion and management for Distributed Renewable Energy Systems, by designing, developing, and implementing the necessary electronic hardware and software components and systems. This includes the development of hardware (including power converters and their control systems, sensor and monitoring systems and their integration), algorithms and software tools (including control techniques for DRES and at grid level, local balance between energy production and consumption in microgrids, by taking advantage from AI), communication techniques (including applications of 5G and wireless extensions of power line communications).
H-HOPE (Hidden Hydro Oscillating Power for Europe) is a Horizon Europe project (Grant agreement ID: 101084362) aimed at developing and demonstrating innovative and sustainable energy harvesting systems capable of recovering hidden hydro energy from existing piping systems, open streams and open channels. H-Hope will set the stage for a market of Energy Harvesters, which will digitalize remote dispersed sensor networks, allowing real-time monitoring, reducing maintenance costs and improving management. As a result, managers will also be able to operate their water and energy systems more efficiently, potentially saving energy and costs.