Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM
Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM

SWARMY – Sensors for IIoT applications

In the age of Industry 4.0, decentralized systems consisting of various wireless sensors are indispensable. To meet the challenges of individual applications, Fraunhofer IZM has developed the IIoT sensor-actuator platform SWARMY. This self-sufficient and energy-efficient platform enables data to be collected, processed in real time, and transmitted wirelessly.

SWARMY supports the condition monitoring of industrial plants and processes and enables predictive maintenance, minimizing downtime and increasing efficiency. The sensor platform is ideal for retrofitting industrial plants to upgrade existing systems with modern sensor solutions and thus optimize their performance.

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Measurement data and possible applications

  • Light intensity measurement: detection of changes in light or determination of presence.
  • Motion and position measurement: detection of any movement or orientation in a room.
  • Indoor air quality: monitoring of air quality and air pressure.
  • Distance measurement: determination of the distance between different objects.
  • Gesture and object recognition: identification of gestures and objects using lidar technology.
  • Height measurement: barometric determination of height above sea level.
  • Environmental measurement: detection of air humidity and ambient temperature.
  • Acoustic measurements: performing sound measurements with microphone arrays.
  • Motor control: use of two stepper motors or four DC motors.

Areas of application

  • Industrial plants: spatially distributed measurements for optimizing manufacturing processes.
  • Agriculture: dynamic measurements of environmental factors to increase yields.
  • Traffic engineering: recording of traffic flows and conditions.
  • Fluid dynamics and vibration measurement technology: simultaneous measurement of dynamic variables for precise analyses.
  • Fast implementation of measurement tasks: flexible use for spatially and temporally variable requirements.

Your advantages

  • Time and cost savings: modularly adaptable, SWARMY saves valuable development time and reduces commissioning costs.
  • High data accuracy: high-resolution data acquisition in terms of location and time with time-synchronised measurement in the tenth of a millisecond range.
  • Flexible configuration: modular and individual customization options as well as expansion with external sensors.
  • Energy efficiency: longer operating times thanks to energy-efficient hardware and firmware.
  • Easy to use: SWARMY is ready to use right out of the box and requires only two to three hours of training for efficient use – even without prior experience!

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Working Group

»Sensor Nodes & Embedded Microsystems«

The »Sensor Nodes & Embedded Microsystems« working group develops autonomous and energy-efficient sensor nodes for smart farming, smart factory, and smart city applications. Hardware-based AI algorithms help preprocess captured data directly in the sensor chips - saving on data transmissions, reducing operating costs, and ensuring fast access to high-quality insights. Our clients benefit from less maintenance, more reliable data quality, and much longer battery lives leading to fewer replacements in the field.

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Key Research Area

Energy-autonomous sensor nodes

Advancing digitalization requires flexible, retrofittable, and connected sensor solutions – whether for future-proof energy systems (smart grids), in agriculture (smart farming), industrial production (Industry 4.0), or the city of the future (smart cities). Every industry has specific requirements that must be met.

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Wireless, autonomous, miniaturized sensor- actuator platform for industrial applications