The rapid technological improvement in the semiconductor industry has enabled smaller and smaller devices to pervade our everyday lives. The real challenge in reducing the size to facilitate a ubiquitous integration of smart functions in any “thing” is drastically reducing the power consumption that constrains the volume to the presence of bulky batteries. An electronic device that dramatically reduces its power consumption can be powered by an alternative "green" source of energy such as light or vibration enabling the vision of the “Internet of Things”. In this scenario, the proposed research activity is intended to substantially enhance the energy efficiency of an IoT sensor node by a synergetic approach targeting both multisource harvesters and the System-on-Chip (SoC) design. The latter one aims in a comprehensive approach in which the macroblocks of different nature are designed exploiting at most an automated (digital) design flow. On this basis, a dramatic human-design effort reduction and silicon area for the same operation is expected for any SoC by a factor in the range of 10x-100x. This implies a faster time-to-market and a reduced cost of energy-autonomous Wireless Sensor Nodes. Challenging problems to be addressed are performance (i.e., resolution, speed). The effectiveness of the proposed approach will be verified and validated on demonstrators of industrial interest. The project targets to be innovative, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral across academies, an EU-based semiconductor company, and partners from MS and TC mostly based in the ASEN.

The primary objective of FOSTER ITS is to design and develop the first secured GNSS module available on the market for ITS application. The FOSTER ITS products will be Galileo, EGNOS, GPS and GLONASS enabled and will offer greater resilience against the increasing range of GNSS threats by: • Detecting signal attack attempts (spoofing, meaconing and jamming); • Providing indicators to users about confidence of the positioning; • Providing proof of the integrity and origin of the PVT data (digital signature). The other ambition of FOSTER ITS project is to create a new ecosystem merging GNSS and Security. To reach these objectives, the FOSTER ITS secured GNSS module will: • Implement and enhance the Level Of Confidence IP (Intellectual Property) developed in the FP7 TACOT project; • Implement and enhance the Spoofing, Meaconing and Jamming detection IP developed in the FP7 TACOT project; • Add a secure Micro Controller Unit (MCU) to increase speed and robustness of security functions and ensure easiest security evaluation; • Implement Galileo OS Navigation Message Authentication Capability; • Target automotive grade and security evaluation; • Provide interface to support EDAS (EGNOS Data Access Service). In addition, the design of this secured module will natively allow further ITS security features in particular certificate and key cabinet that will be used in Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2X) communication (IEEE 1609.2 protocol). The FOSTER ITS Team consists of experienced companies and organisations which provides the most efficient background for the performance of the project. This consortium is composed of FDC, ST Microelectronics (Automotive and Security divisions), Novacom services and NavCert.