SATURN - Sensor Systems with Realtime-Connectivity
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Contact: Stefan Köpsell, Paul Walther
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The SATURN project aims to explore, in close collaboration with the MARS project, essential innovative technologies necessary for the development, manufacture and testing of a new, innovative generation of electronic systems, the Tactile Intelligent Systems (TIS). The SATURN project focuses on the development of new innovative sensor nodes, which in a second step can be networked wirelessly and securely with the help of the real-time connectivity technologies to be developed in parallel. This opens up completely new areas of application.
Through all layers of communication, the aspects of data protection and data security in particular must be taken into account, since every device with (wireless) connectivity is a potential gateway for cyber attacks on critical systems such as industrial controllers, on the one hand, and for networking sensors in the private sector, on the other hand, privacy must be preserved.
Our role in the SATURN project is therefore to explore new approaches that are capable of achieving the same protection goals as traditional methods, but which can be implemented more efficiently in the sense of latency reduction. Approaches of Physical Layer Security (PLS), which are located on the physical level in the analogue world, offer exactly this. Methods such as real-time generation of keys between two partners to encrypt the communication channel and physical unclonable functions (PUFs) or approaches such as spread spectrum or wireless fingerprinting promise enormous reductions in latency, energy and costs.
