Smart Systems for the Internet of Things
The coming decade will see a rise in smart connected systems. Machines, buildings, vehicles, personal appliances will all be equipped with more intelligence that will be interconnected.
Such smart systems will help manage the sustainability, complexity and safety of our world. Smart systems will be unobtrusive, ultrasmall, cheap, intelligent, and ultra-low power.
They will include sensors, actuators, and processing and communication abilities, often in a one-chip wireless solution. Imec tunes and extends CMOS processes with new processing steps to make novel CMOS micro- and nanodevices.
That way, we add functions other than logic and memory (such as mechanical, chemical and optical functions) to the chips.
With expertise in compact and power-efficient sensor modules, wireless communication, ultra-low power electronics, body area networks, diagnostics and flexible electronics, imec leverages its technology advancements and global partnerships to develop the building blocks of the intuitive internet of things.