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14 LATEST NEWS 16 It’s all about letterboxes, fashion designers and

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scooters: the city of the future where you’ll definitely want to live

22 Accelerate cellular IoT adoption by balancing security with power efficiency 24 Synchronization of Multiaxis Motion Control over Real-Time Networks 30 Unleash the Power CUDA and GPGPU in the Industrial Environment 32 Nordic nRF91 Series roll-out brings cellular IoT to any application

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NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox for 6.9$ Billion

NVIDIA Mellanox announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox. Pursuant to the agreement, NVIDIA will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise and

“The emergence of AI and data science, as well as billions of simultaneous computer users, is fueling skyrocketing demand on the world’s datacenters,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Addressing this demand will require holistic architectures that connect vast numbers of fast computing nodes over intelligent networking fabrics to form a giant datacenter-scale compute engine. “We’re excited to unite NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform with Mellanox’s world-renowned accelerated networking platform under one roof to create next- generation datacenter-scale computing solutions. I am particularly thrilled to work closely with the visionary leaders of Mellanox and their amazing people to invent the computers of tomorrow.” “We share the same vision for accelerated computing as NVIDIA,” said Eyal Waldman, founder and CEO of Mellanox. “Combining our two companies comes as a natural extension of our longstanding partnership and is a great fit given our common performance-driven cultures. This combination will foster the creation of powerful technology and fantastic opportunities for our people.” The companies have a long history of collaboration and joint innovation, reflected in their recent contributions in building the world’s two fastest supercomputers, Sierra and Summit, operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. Many of the world’s top cloud service providers also use both NVIDIA GPUs and Mellanox interconnects. NVIDIA and Mellanox share a common performance-centric culture that will enable seamless integration. Once the combination is complete, NVIDIA intends to continue investing in local excellence and talent in Israel, one of the world’s most important technology centers. Customer sales and support will not change as a result of this transaction.

value of approximately $6.9 billion. Once complete, the combination is expected to be immediately accretive to NVIDIA’s non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP earnings per share and free cash flow. The acquisition will unite two of the world’s leading companies in high performance computing (HPC). Together, NVIDIA’s computing platform and Mellanox’s interconnects power over 250 of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers and have as customers every major cloud service provider and computer maker. The data and compute intensity of modern workloads in AI, scientific computing and data analytics is growing exponentially and has put enormous performance demands on hyperscale and enterprise datacenters. While computing demand is surging, CPU performance advances are slowing as Moore’s law has ended. This has led to the adoption of accelerated computing with NVIDIA GPUs and Mellanox’s intelligent networking solutions. Datacenters in the future will be architected as giant compute engines with tens of thousands of compute nodes, designed holistically with their interconnects for optimal performance. An early innovator in high-performance interconnect technology, Mellanox pioneered the InfiniBand interconnect technology, which along with its high-speed Ethernet products is now used in over half of the world’s fastest supercomputers and in many leading hyperscale datacenters. With Mellanox, NVIDIA will optimize datacenter-scale workloads across the entire computing, networking and storage stack to achieve higher performance, greater utilization and lower operating cost for customers.

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MTN and Ericsson extend mobile money partnership

The deal will see the deployment of new products and provide managed services for mobile money services. It includes Ericsson Wallet Platform, which will bring easy- to-use, next-generation mobile financial services to MTN customers.

Rafiah Ibrahim, Head of Ericsson Middle East and Africa, says: “This breakthrough deployment is yet another example of MTN’s ongoing commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction. “Ericsson Wallet Platform helps MTN offer the convenience of m-wallet financial services

Ericsson Wallet Platform allows users to store, transfer and withdraw money; pay merchants and utility providers; and use financial services such as savings and loans. Serigne Dioum, MTN Group Executive for Mobile Financial Services, says: “A stable, secure and reliable platform is one of the fundamentals to building successful mobile financial services. “Through this partnership we look forward to working with Ericsson to further enhance our value proposition and expand our ecosystem.”

across its entire subscriber base.” Part of the Ericsson Digital BSS portfolio, Ericsson Wallet Platform is an integrated mobile wallet solution that combines Ericsson Wallet Platform and Ericsson Charging. It also allows mobile operators to reuse existing assets and bundle telecom offerings with financial services to create a complete end user solution for m-commerce needs.

Samsung Electronics Starts Commercial Shipment of eMRAM Product Based on 28nm FD-SOI Process

Samsung Electronics the world leader in semiconductor technology, announced that it has commenced mass production of its first commercial embedded

to overcome technical hurdles and demonstrated the possibility for further scalability of embedded memory technology to 28nm process node and beyond. Samsung’s 28FDS-based eMRAM solution offers unprecedented power and speed advantages with lower cost. Since eMRAM does not

magnetic random access memory (eMRAM) product based on the company’s 28-nanometer(nm) fully- depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process technology, called 28FDS.

require an erase cycle before writing data, its writing speed is approximately a thousand times faster than eFlash. Also, eMRAM uses lower voltages than eFlash, and does not consume electric power when in power-off mode, resulting in great power efficiency. Furthermore, since an eMRAMmodule can easily be inserted in the back-end of the process by adding the least number of layers, it has less dependence on the front-end of

As eFlash has faced scalability challenges due to a charge storage-based operation, eMRAM has been the most promising successor since its resistance-based operation allows strong scalability while also possessing outstanding technical characteristics of memory semiconductors such as nonvolatility, random access, and strong endurance. With today’s announcement, Samsung has proved its capability

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embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) technology after overcoming complicated challenges of new materials.” said Ryan Lee, vice president of foundry marketing at Samsung Electronics. “By integrating eMRAM with existing proven logic technologies, Samsung Foundry continues to expand its eNVM process portfolio to provide distinct competitive advantages and excellent manufacturability to meet customers and market requirement.” A ceremony to celebrate this first shipment of eMRAM product will be held on March 6 at Samsung’s Giheung campus, Korea. Samsung plans to expand its options for high-density eNVM solutions, including a tape-out of 1Gb eMRAM test chip within this year.

the process for easy integration with existing logic technologies, such as bulk, fin, and FD-SOI transistor. With this plug-in module concept, customers can enjoy the benefit of reutilizing existing design infrastructure even with this added new technology, eMRAM, and saving costs at the same time. By combining with 28FD-SOI for better transistor control and minimizing leakage current through body-bias control, Samsung’s eMRAM solution will provide differentiated benefits for a variety of applications including micro controller unit (MCU), internet of things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI). “We are very proud of this achievement in offering right

TowerJazz Announces Successful Development of Axbio’s In-Vitro Diagnostic Bio-CMOS IC using its Advanced 300mm 65nm RFCMOS Platform TowerJazz, the global

drug discovery, liquid biopsy, microbiology, agriculture, and environmental science. TowerJazz’s 65nm RFCMOS platform supports a wide range of CMOS and RF applications with state-of-the- art RF modeling for MOSFETs, inductors and transmission lines, a very large set of metal combination and a full set of

specialty foundry leader, and Axbio Inc., a silicon valley based high-end development company providing leading edge solutions for the medical market, today announced the release of a microfluidics Bio- CMOS device for molecular in vitro diagnostic (IVD), based on TowerJazz’s 65nm RFCMOS

RFCMOS elements. RF applications such as WiFi 802.11, Wireless HDMI, and WiGi, that require 65nm mmWave technology, can now utilize modeling capabilities up to 110GHz. The Company’s customized process solutions, together with its optimized layout, is answering the extremely unique technological demands of the IVD market by allowing ultra-high density (UHD) of sensing array along with extremely high-resolution capabilities. In addition, this platform is automotive qualified. “We selected TowerJazz because of their high flexibility and capabilities to adapt their advanced 65nm RFCMOS platform to integrate with our microfluidic technology. TowerJazz’s vast manufacturing expertise is enabling us to successfully fulfill the needs of several market sectors combined with increased performance required in next-generation IVD

platform, following a successful development in its 300mm manufacturing facility in Uozu, Japan. This unique device, planned to be in production by mid-2019, combined with highly innovative automation features and disposable cartridge, offers a frontier solution for the medical market. This technological breakthrough device enables tests to be handled on premises, in the clinical lab itself, with no need to send blood samples out for results. In addition, minimal blood draw is required for complete diagnostics making it highly efficient, facilitating time and cost savings, while enabling extremely accurate and thorough results in a very short period of time with minimal effort. Axbio’s microfluidic-CMOS platform device and systems are expected to provide leading-edge technologies in many health-related applications, such as molecular diagnostics,

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to deliver high-end, competitive embedded solutions in multiple markets. Through our partnership with Axbio, we are expanding our RFCMOS presence into the growing IVD systems and medical markets”, said Shimon Greenberg, Vice President and General Manager of Mixed-Signal & Power Management Business Unit, TowerJazz.

systems. TowerJazz has been our development partner for several years and together we have achieved technology maturity leading to expanded business opportunities,” said Dr. Hui Tian, CEO of Axbio Inc. “Axbio’s IP, along with TowerJazz’s advanced process, manufacturing capabilities and know-how, enable us

Advances in Logic IC Process Technology Move Forward The advancement of the IC industry hinges on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. As mainstream CMOS processes reacch their theoretical, practical, and economic limits, lowering the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per-performance basis) are presently using. Derivative versions of each process generation between major nodes have become regular occurrences. Intel — Its ninth-generation processors unveiled in late 2018 have the code-name “Coffee Lake-S” or, sometimes called “Coffee Lake Refresh.” Intel says these processors are

is more critical and challenging than ever. The 500-page, 2019 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (released in January 2019) shows that there is more variety than ever among the logic-oriented process technologies that companies offer. Figure 1 lists several of the leading advanced logic technologies that companies are presently using. Derivative versions of each process generation between major nodes have become regular occurrences. Advances in Logic IC Process Technology Move Forward Despite increasing development costs, IC manufacturers continue to make great strides. The advancement of the IC industry hinges on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. As mainstream CMOS processes reacch their theoretical, practical, and economic limits, lowering the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per- performance basis) is more critical and challenging than ever. The 500-page, 2019 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (released in January 2019) shows that there is more variety than ever among the logic-oriented process technologies that companies offer. Figure 1 lists several of the leading advanced logic technologies that companies

a new generation of products, but they seem to be more of an enhancement of the eighth-generation products. Details are scarce, but these processors appear to be manufactured on an enhanced version of the 14nm++ process, or what might be considered a 14nm+++ process. Mass production using its 10nm process will ramp in 2019 with the new “Sunny Cove” family of processors that it unveiled in December 2018. It appears that the Sunny Cove architecture has essentially taken the place of the 10nm Cannon Lake architecture that was supposed to be released in 2019. In 2020, a 10nm+ derivative process is expected to go into mass production. TSMC — TSMC’s 10nm finFET process entered volume production in late 2016 but it has moved quickly from 10nm to 7nm. TSMC believes the 7nm generation will be a long- lived node like 28nm and 16nm. TSMC’s 5nm process is under development and scheduled to enter risk production in the first half of 2019, with volume production coming in 2020. The process will use EUV, but it will not be the first of TSMC’s processes to take advantage of EUV technology. The first will be an improved version of the company’s 7nm technology. The N7+ process will employ EUV only on critical layers (four layers), while the N5 process will use EUV extensively (up to 14 layers). N7+ is scheduled to enter volume production in the second quarter of 2019. Samsung — In early 2018, Samsung started mass

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production of a second-generation 10nm process called 10LPP (low power plus). Later in 2018, Samsung introduced a third-generation 10nm process called 10LPU (low power ultimate) that provided another performance increase. Samsung uses triple patterning lithography at 10nm. Unlike TSMC, Samsung believes its 10nm family of processes (including 8nm derivatives) will have a long lifecycle. Samsung’s 7nm technology went into risk production in October 2018. The company skipped offering a 7nm process with immersion lithography and decided instead to move directly to a EUV-based 7nm process. The company is using EUV for 8-10 layers at 7nm. GlobalFoundries — GF views and markets its 22nm FD- SOI process as being complementary to its 14nm finFET technology. The company says the 22FDX platform delivers performance very close to that of finFET, but with

manufacturing costs the same as 28nm technology. In August 2018, GlobalFoundries made a major shift in strategy by announcing it would halt 7nm development because of the enormous expense in ramping production at that technology node and because there were too few foundry customers planning to use the next-generation process. As a result, the company shifted its R&D efforts to further enhance its 14nm and 12nm finFET processes and its fully depleted SOI technologies. For five decades, there have been amazing improvements in the productivity and performance of integrated circuit technology. While the industry has surmounted many obstacles put in front of it, it seems the barriers keep getting bigger. Despite this, IC designers and manufacturers are developing solutions that seem more revolutionary than evolutionary to increase chip functionality.

CPI Develops Hi-Therm System to Improve Heat Transference The Hi-Therm system has been developed to provide a more efficient method of increasing the energy transference in radiators.

impact and ensuring greater heat transfer. Hi-Therm technology was developed from a collaborative R&D project funded by Innovate UK, entitled HiPAdd, which explored the formulation of high-performance additives for metalworking fluids with higher heat removal properties. This project involved a number

Providing a smaller and lighter alternative to existing radiators, Hi-Therm holds great potential to advance the performance of vehicle cooling systems, cutting fluids, high-intensity PC servers and even domestic heating systems.

of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult partners, including the Warwick Manufacturing Group, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, together with UK company Afton Chemicals. CPI developed a modified form of Boron Nitride that remains in suspension. It utilised equipment supplied by UK Company Haydale Limited in order to develop different surface chemistries to find the optimum formulation for the additives. The next steps in development will be to transfer the technology to UK companies that can take products into the market. Applications in automotive, aerospace and advanced computing are the logical next steps.

By adding a form of Boron Nitride, a 2D material similar to graphene, CPI has achieved the effect of making fluids more highly thermally conductive while doubling the amount of energy removed. A Central Processing Unit (CPU), for example, could be run at half its normal operating temperature, ultimately extending the life-time of the component while saving energy. CPI also found Hi-Therm is capable of removing traditional performance-impairing issues caused by nanomaterials, which can clump together in radiators and only be cleared with the addition of surfactants. With traditional dispersion making fluids less conductive, Hi- Therm removes the need for additives, negating any adverse

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Latest News Ficosa connects to MWC 2019 with the latest 5G and V2X technology

Ficosa, a top-tier global provider devoted to the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of vision, safety, connectivity and efficiency systems for the automotive sector, leads the connected car race with the latest advanced communications technology for vehicles. The company, which will be at Mobile World Congress 2019, is developing cutting-edge

environment for safer driving. Specifically, the three assisted- driving use cases that are shown on the streets of Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat (around the Mobile World Congress fairgrounds) are:

Detecting a pedestrian in a zebra crossing: the traffic light will use a thermal camera to detect a pedestrian in the crossing and warn the vehicles, which will display an alert message on the control panel, if necessary. Detecting a cyclist when turning right: the connected cycle equipped with a high-precision geolocation solution communicates with cars around it to report its location. In the event of a possible collision, the cars will display a warning on the control panel. Detecting a car stopped on the road with low visibility: the car stopped on a section of road with low visibility activates its hazard lights and automatically warns approaching vehicles with a message on the control panel. These use cases show how C-V2X technology offers a safer and more comfortable driving experience by allowing the vehicle to communicate with everything around it (other cars, traffic lights, traffic signals, pedestrians, cyclists, motorbikes, etc.). For cars to ‘talk’ to the city, however, latency must be kept to a minimum. So, it is essential to roll out 5G capabilities. In this regard, the 5G connection for this demo of the pilot programme has been made possible thanks to Telefónica’s end- to-end connectivity. Plus, the 5G technology provided by Ericsson and the Qualcomm next-generation connectivity platform for network communication and direct communication have been key players in this project. First company to launch C-V2X technology to market Ficosa has become the first company to launch C-V2X technology to market after connecting 500 vehicles with City Now, Panasonic’s smart city in Denver, Colorado (United States), in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Transportation (C-DoT). Ficosa is Panasonic’s exclusive supplier and installer of the On Board Units for vehicles in this smart city. The On Board Units are a key device for connected mobility, that allows the vehicles to speak to each other and any other infrastructure element in City Now.

connectivity solutions with the aim of revolutionising the driving experience, making it safer, more comfortable and with endless entertainment options, paving the way towards the driverless car. Ficosa’s main novelty at the event will be Bitax, a hybrid V2X (vehicle-to-everything) platform that, allows for short-range communication over Wi-Fi technology (DSRC) and cellular technology (Cellular-V2X). This hybrid solution allows for both types of communication using the same hardware platform. As the regulations vary by region, this is an important advance for the industry in terms of implementing one unique V2X platform worldwide. The company also offers the CarCom platform, which allows to integrate various connectivity solutions, in a modular way. This solution meets the goal of facilitating the direct communication between vehicles and new technology that will be the future of mobility (high-precision positioning, digital tuning antenna, as well as the 5G new modules). In the words of Joan Palacin, director of the Ficosa Advanced Communications Business Unit: “In this long-distance race towards the car of the future, it is essential to have a clear view of where we want to go. At Ficosa, we know that both connectivity and safety are key concepts that we must tackle if we want to make autonomous driving a reality. In this regard, V2X technology is unique, as in addition to being a top-notch connectivity tool it is also able to prevent accidents, and this is vital to the future of our industry.” Use cases of connected car with C-V2X and 5G technology At MWC 2019, under the framework of the 5G Barcelona pilot programme for the 5G Connected Car, Ficosa, together with the other consortium partners Telefónica, SEAT, Mobile World Capital, ETRA and i2Cat, shares three use cases of a 5G connected vehicle with C-V2X technology developed by the company in a real city

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It’s all about letterboxes, fashion designers and scooters: the city of the future where you’ll definitely want to live.

Jan Adriaenssens, Imec

Living in the city? Very enjoyable, because everything is close at hand and easy to get to – plus it never gets boring. One thing’s for sure: the city of the future doesn’t have to be dull and grey or overcrowded. Jan Adriaenssens, director City of Things at imec, believes in a city with lots of greenery and plenty of flexibility. Flexibility in transport and flexibility in the way spaces are used. Smart City technology is the ideal way of adding this flexibility to the city. Everyone heading for the city According to the United Nations, almost 70% of the world’s population will live in cities in the

future (2050). In Western countries, that will mean having to give up ‘the detached house with a large garden’. This dream is untenable in the long run. We need more woods and green spaces to act as a green lung for our planet, buthis means that not everyone will be able to have their own patch of garden any more. So we will have to get organized and move to cities, close to our jobs, school, leisure facilities and shops. And to create as much space as possible in the city for trees and parks – essential to ensure good air quality and to soak up rainwater – high-rise buildings are often the best solution. There are plenty of opportunities for adapting existing cities so that more people can live in them harmoniously, with plenty of

greenery in the neighborhood and the ability to move around the city efficiently. Technology will play a major role in making this come true. There have already been several attempts to build ‘the ideal city’ from scratch, although they have not always been successful. Think of Brasilia, for instance, created by the brilliant architect Oscar Niemeyer out of nothing in a matter of years from 1956 on. Every detail was carefully planned out and the latest insights into cities and urban construction applied. And it became a wonderful, yet not very ‘bustling’ city. Since then, Brasilia has found its urban dynamic, but the city’s early years highlighted the dangers of imposing utopian and exaggerated design, as well as organizing everything too rigidly.

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Other examples of new cities where no one wants to go and live include the so-called ‘ghost cities’ in China, which were part of a megaplan to relocate 300 million Chinese from the country to the city. These are examples of new cities where literally no one wants to go and live. So it would appear better to allow cities to grow organically – although, of course, that also creates many challenges of its own – and to rethink certain areas in the city and the purposes they are used for. Mobility apps replacing our cars One of the big challenges facing cities today is the automobile. Cars take up a huge amount of space: somewhere to park them overnight, somewhere else to park them during the day, main arterial roads and countless traffic lanes. That means a lot (usually too much) of ‘concrete jungle’ that is actually not desirable in a green city. But, by 2035, not all of us will want to have our own car any more. We’ll be using shared means of transport more, like shared(driverless) cars, but also bicycles and delivery tricycles, scooters and so on. Then add buses, metros,light rail and trains to the equation. In one word, our future mobility becomes “CASE”: Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric. This will mean a highly diverse offering of different modes of transport. But within that wide offering also lurks a danger:there will be lots of different providers of shared bikes and cars. Trouble is, with a subscription pass from provider x you won’t be able to hire a bike from provider y. So some form of order will need to be implemented to control that

Fig 1: The UN’s prediction of worldwide urbanization and the size of cities by 2030. (Data source: World Urbanization Prospects. The 2018 Revision. Copyright 2018 United Nations, DESA, Population Division. Licensed under creative commons license CCBY3.0IGO)

particular ‘chaos’. “We won’t pay for shared bikes belonging specifically to x any more, but instead we will pay for overall ‘mobility’. We will have service- providers who integrate all of the various shared means of transport into a single system and who will offer us ‘mobility as a service’.” You enter your current location and required destination into an app and receive proposals of ways to get there. The providers of shared vehicles – including public transport, of course – will open up all of their real-time transport information and

ticketing systems for the app. Sure, there will still be various mobility apps, but each one will have its own focus, such as B2B, or focusing on green mobility, etc. In Flanders, you already have integration apps such as Olympus and Whim. However, the popularity of this diverse offering of transport methods may increase so quickly that it places existing arrangements in the city under too much pressure. For instance, think of the electric bikes and (shared) scooters that are currently all the rage in American and European cities and that cause

Fig 2: Brasilia, a city built from nothing and designed by clever urban planners, was an illustration of the dangers of allowing utopian design and organization to be too rigid.

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dangerous situations on the cycle paths which both electric and standard bikes have to use. It’s difficult to fix this because the more static urban planning doesn’t allow to flexibely adjust the allocation of spaces. But Smart City technology can help here by making the static purpose of certain locations within the city more flexible. This may depend on the weather, time of day, pressure of traffic, etc. For example, the center traffic lane can run one way in the morning and the other way in the evening. Or one traffic lane for cars becomes a cycle path in the morning, close to a school, or a car park becomes a basketball court at the weekend – and so on. And, by gathering data, visualizing traffic flows, centrally controlling digital signboards above the road, automatically installing and removing traffic bollards, etc., the way the city is organized can be made more flexible and efficient. Of course, for this to happen, the various departments within the city will have to work very closely together and aim to achieve a common goal. Every district should have its own letterbox 2.0 These days, it’s not just our own cars that clog city traffic, but also the delivery vehicles needed to bring our online orders to us. Different delivery companies all work independently from each other, yet they sometimes need to deliver packages to the same place. Urban logistics such as this could be a lot more efficient and in the future, more and better integration should certainly be possible. As a result, collaboration between the various providers will

Fig 3: Mobility as a service’ will be the trend of the (near) future. Using a single app, we will be able to organize our whole journey: buy a train ticket, hire a shared electric bike for long distances from the station to the nearby town or city, ride off on a shared scooter in the busy city, etc. One example is the Whim app, which is currently used in Helsinki, Birmingham and Antwerp. [copyright: Whim]

Fig 4: The supply of shared vehicles in the city will increase enormously. An example is the current popularity of shared scooters, like Troty. [copyright Troty]

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be encouraged – and even made compulsory – by the authorities in order to relieve some of the pressure on urban mobility. Vehicles will not be delivered to each individual home any more, either. Micro-hubs of letterboxes could be set up to service each street or district. These would be two-way letterboxes: so you could put your laundry in the box for one service-provider to pick up, while another supplier deposits your shopping in the same box. Everything is then orchestrated through a single integrated delivery service. You can see this happening already with the Bringme and Cubee boxes that are used flexibly by different users and delivery providers to handle packages. Here’s the winter collection: now let’s use the 3D printer Another way of relieving urban logistics is to produce locally. This might mean having greenhouses attached to supermarkets, city garden areas, or vertical farming in which plants grow in artificial light in layers above each other and so on. But other things, such as clothes, can also be produced locally. For instance clothes can be produced to our exact size and needs at 3D printer centers in the city. Not resorting to mass production would be an enormous leap forward for the environment, and – better still – the clothes would fit us better. This would certainly suit people in wheelchairs who need special clothes that take account of the fact that they spend much of the time sitting. But would this mean saying goodbye to those lovely designer stores in the city? Certainly not! We will still

Fig 5: Today, there are already Bringme boxes, which provide a more efficient way of delivering packages. In the future, systems like this will be expanded further for each district to make urban logistics more efficient. (Copyright photo: Bringme)

Fig 6: In the future we will produce our clothes with 3D printers, either at home, or at the 3D printer centers in the city. Designers will still create their own collections. It’s just that they will no longer be produced in such large numbers, but to the customer’s size and requirements at 3D printer centers. This dress from fashion designer Danit Peleg comes from a 3D-printed collection. (Photo credits: Daria Ratiner); video: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=3s94mIhCyt4]

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be able to go and admire clothes in their wonderfully tempting displays. But from now on you will be able to have your own ‘Dries Van Noten’ coat – winter collection 2018 nº 5 – made perfectly to your size and in the color you want, produced at the 3D printing center in your local district. We are already seeing this trend for personalization in sports shoes from Nike or with cars. The Flemish software company Twikit specializes in this area. The planet would also benefit more from having local production, because products would no longer need to travel halfway round the world to reach our front door. How is imec contributing to this future? In its City of Things program, imec investigates how technology can improve life in the city. Imec collaborates on this topic with industry, governments, research groups and citizens. For example, imec developes sensor technology as well as data processing and visualization for the city of the future. These sensors measure the quality of the air or river water. They also keep an eye on water levels (project in conjunction with the Antwerp fire department). While the quality and reliability of the sensors are important, so is the way they communicate with each other and the outside world. Which is why imec is also conducting research on IoT networks and 5G. A great deal of research is also being done on real-time open data and shared reference models, so that cities and other players can work together more easily and to make all solutions – existing and new ones –

and philosophy in London. He gained experience with innovation policy as senior researcher at the Flemish Council for Science and Innovation, where he began as a consultant. After this, he went to work as deputy chief-of-staff to the Flemish minister for Innovation. Jan then joined the iMinds research center (which merged with imec in 2016), first as director Strategy & Innovation, and later as vice- president Policy & Society. After imec and iMinds merged, he took on responsibility for imec’s City of Things program, an ambitious living lab and technology laboratory. This article is part of a special edition of imec magazine. To celebrate imec's 35th anniversary, we try to envisage how technology will have transformed our society in 2035.

interoperable. For more information about the imec research into the city of the future, visit our website. Imec is also working on the Smart Flanders program and the Smart Zone program in Antwerp to test technology and algorithms in ‘real life’ situations. Here, once again, feedback from city residents plays an important part in making progress. Each year, imec showcases Smart City trends from the viewpoint of citizens through the Smart City Meter. I mec.livinglabs alsofocuses on involving citizens by co-creating new products and services for the smart city. In 2018, imec and TNO developed a Digital Twin of the city of Antwerp. More info on this Digital Twin can also be found on this webpage. Biography of Jan Adriaenssens Jan Adriaenssens is director of City of Things at imec. He is fascinated by the role and impact that technology has in and on society. Jan studied mathematics in Antwerp

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Accelerate cellular IoT adoption by balancing security with power efficiency.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) may be disrupting the world economy, but security remains a sticking point. Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks carrying IoT data from devices such as water meters and smoke detectors are particularly challenged by the heavy processing that security typically entails. The good news is that technical standards nearing ratification will soon start protecting these devices in efficient new ways using algorithms already built into the cellular network. An emerging security standard called BEST1 conserves battery life while securing IoT data. The 3GPP, the international body in charge of mobile broadband standards development, is overseeing BEST, which applies to IoT services carried across licensed mobile frequencies. BEST is especially suited to applications using sensors that rely

on batteries as a power source, such as smart metering, asset management, and environmental monitoring. Most business plans associated with these high-volume IoT deployments call for using low-cost batteries with very long lives—10 years or more—to avoid the expense and interruption of having to continually replace them. The typical security process, though, involves overhead- heavy, certificate-based mutual authentication and complicated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) management, which quickly consume battery power. Because of this complexity and overhead, it can be tempting to forego security when implementing IoT applications in order to conserve battery life. Can You Trust the Data? However, IoT data that hasn’t been

secured is untrusted data. And data you can’t trust is useless at best. For example, if you have no confidence that your water meter reading is accurate, why bother collecting it? At worst, untrusted data can be damaging. If a heart monitor’s data has been manipulated, someone’s health may be put at risk. The BEST standard introduces a way to get the best of both worlds: low-power battery-operated devices with long lives and robust security. In this way, BEST represents a significant turning point in IoT. Companies plan to spend US$15 trillion globally in aggregate IoT investment between 2017 and 2025, according to BI Intelligence2. If IoT isn’t secure, those investments could be in jeopardy. In fact, Nemertes Research3 reports that while IoT figures prominently in most companies’ digital transformation

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plans, security is most often an afterthought—a situation that the researcher warns is creating unacceptable risk. Work with the 3GPP Juniper is tackling that risk and helping advance the state of security by working closely with the 3GPP and other companies drafting the BEST protocol. As part of that work, we’re developing a BEST gateway capability (known as an HPLMN4 Security Endpoint, or HSE) as a proof of concept and for interoperability testing. BEST capitalizes on the cellular network’s pre-shared key (PSK) for authentication. From this PSK, the network derives integrity protection and encryption keys that run between an IoT device and an HSE gateway in the operator’s core. Using the cellular PSK along with an Embedded SIM (E-SIM) card simplifies the provisioning and improves effiency by making use of the mutual authentication that already exists in the network. This setup saves battery power because you don’t need to run authentication and encryption algorithms on IoT devices directly; the task is offloaded to the cellular network instead. As a result, mobile operators can deliver highly scalable, secure celluar connectivity for carrying IoT traffic. And once BEST has been tested and built into commercial products and services next year, you’ll be able to help your enterprise customers deploy massive IoT securely at a much lower cost than is possible today. Delivering Value-Added Security Services BEST technology also gives you the opportunity to offer new value- added IoT security services and to

better compete against unlicensed- band IoT network alternatives, such as LoRaWAN and Sigfox. LoRaWAN and Sigfox came to market much earlier and have made significant traction, though as unlicensed options, they can be perceived as less secure. More importantly, BEST is a part of 3GPP. So, unlike its unlicensed competitors, it will benefit from the massive installed base of cellular technology and its ecosystem of network operators, infrastructure vendors, and software developers. With BEST, you can boost your cellular network value proposition with secure IoT connectivity and differentiate your service offerings. And with BEST-based managed IoT security services, you’ll help your enterprise customers secure their battery-constrained IoT devices with simplicity and lower cost. Enterprises that opt to use a cellular BEST-based service, for example, avoid buying and managing security gateways themselves to terminate encryption throughout their networks. BEST further improves the business case for many IoT deployments in that end users won’t have to visit remote areas as frequently to replace sensor batteries. Operator Deployment Options You can deploy BEST to offer “end- to-end” security (between the device and an enterprise application server) to your enterprise customers. You can also deploy “end-to-middle” security (between the device and an HSE gateway in your home network) for your own use to mitigate risks. For example, IoT transmissions often traverse the licensed mobile networks of multiple operators, which have roaming partnership agreements. Most service providers would consider the visited partner

network less trustworthy than their own home network. So they don’t want to depend on the visited network to provide confidentiality or integrity. One way of addressing this concern is to use BEST for end-to-middle security, which establishes a secure channel between the IoT device or user equipment and the HSE gateway in your home network. This way, you avoid trusting intermediate communications links and therefore mitigate risks. You can deploy end-to-middle security for integrity protection, confidentiality protection (encryption), or both. Some service providers may choose not to implement the end-to-middle encryption for confidentiality protection, however, if they want to provide local law enforcement agencies in other parts of the world with lawful intercept capabilities. Differentiate Services While Lowering Risk BEST technology is intended to work with your licensed cellular network that supports Narrowband- IoT (NB-IoT) or LTE-M technology. You can take advantage of BEST to differentiate your service offerings, create additional revenue streams, and mitigate risk. By offering managed IoT security as a value- added service with BEST, you’ll also ease the IoT power-versus-security conundrum for enterprises. Learn more about BEST and IoT security in the resources for this article. For a briefing on BEST, contact your Juniper account representative.

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