CapSec

Security Sensors platform

Managed by the MSAD axis, CapSec is an embedded wireless sensor network platform. Its main objective is to provide a key resource for industrial partners and academic laboratories to test and validate their technological solutions based on wireless sensor networks. A smart sensor network can be defined as an integrated system comprising, on the one hand, the means to perform a measurement, and on the other hand, the means to process this measurement and distribute the information to a selected system. The information is then sent to a higher-level system or to a human. The deployment of embedded and wireless sensors represents both a technologically and economically attractive solution, increasingly adopted by industrial players, but also a fast-growing research field. Thus, the CapSec platform will meet a need constantly expressed by the industrial world, while promoting the link between research laboratories and the economic fabric of the region.

The advantages of networking embedded sensors are:

• Flexibility of installation (see random deployment),
• Unequalled access to information,
• Robustness of the measurement (the loss of one or more components does not compromise the functioning of the whole),
• Security of data as it is pre-processed / pre-coded locally.

Currently, embedded sensor networks are present in a large number of applications which are expected to become more and more numerous. These applications are expected to become more and more numerous with the development of integration technologies (micro and nano). In a sensor network, the processing of information must be distributed among the various nodes that make up the monitoring system. To do this, each sensor integrates a processing unit capable of either making a local decision or participating in the final decision. Thus, although less efficient individually, intelligent sensors work together with a well-defined architecture and strategy to form a powerful and robust decision-making network.

Within the framework of CapSec, the work to be carried out concerns both:

• Sensor technologies,
• Embedded data processing,
• Communication protocols,
• Collaborative information processing.

 ​​​The creation of a sensor network platform will enable the development and advancement of knowledge on collaborative and decentralised information processing and on communication protocols that adapt to the variable topology of distributed nodes. The application areas targeted by this platform are at the crossroads of several disciplines: statistical decision, digital communications, electronics, micro/nanotechnologies, telehealth, etc.

Platform Manager

Hichem SNOUSSI

Research Engineers

Mahmoud SOUA
Luis A. SALAZAR-ZENDEJA