The industrial partnership between Qorvo and IRIT in the spotlight

On January 26, the company Qorvo, the IUT de Blagnac and IRIT organize a day related to employment in innovation, in the field of indoor geolocation and connected objects. The objective of this event is to make a scientific presentation of these technologies and to expose the professional opportunities related to this sector of activity. On this occasion, Adrien van den Bossche and Réjane Dalce (both from the RMESS team – ASR department) will present the LocURa4IoT platform.

Engineering students and alternating students from Occitania interested in IoT, we encourage you to participate in this event open to all under the condition of registration.

 

An important industrial collaboration

Qorvo is a company specializing in radio frequency (RF) and core power technologies and solutions to the mobile, infrastructure, IoT, defense/aerospace and power management markets. Currently, the partnership between Qorvo and IRIT is materialized by a CIFRE thesis in progress. As for all network test platforms, the main target audience is the research community but also industrialists, who wish, like Qorvo, to evaluate the performance of wireless network technologies, as well as the associated protocols and algorithms.

The LocURa4IoT platform

LocURa4IoT is a testbed platform dedicated to the study and analysis of the performance of Ranging and fine synchronization networks and protocols. It addresses the problem of locating radio nodes in indoor environments, mainly by measuring radio time of flight as a distance measurement method. Initially designed for the study of networks based on an Ultra-Wide Band physical layer (IEEE 802.15.4z), it also addresses the problem of physical layer heterogeneity by implementing three physical layers on all nodes: UWB, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRa. The LocURa4IoT platform is quite unique. Although there are many testbed platforms in France and Europe (FIT/IoT-lab, SmartSantander, Log-a-Tec, etc.), few of them address the issue of indoor localization by radio time-of-flight, from the point of view of networks and protocols. This is due to the fact that most of the existing platforms are based on IEEE 802.5.4/Zigbee technology (such as FIT/IoT-lab); on the other hand, the teams working on UWB generally have a signal processing approach. The LocURa4IoT platform is deployed in an indoor environment on the campus of the IUT of Blagnac.

To learn more, you can refer to the platform’s website.