Presentation: Leveraging Simulation for Product Development of IoT Devices

The local SEMI chapter here in Arizona held a breakfast meeting on Monetizing Internet of Things (IoT) and PADT was pleased to be one of the presenters. Always a smart group, this was a chance to sit with people making the sensors, chips, and software that enable the IoT and dig deep in to where things are and where they need to be.

The event was hosted by one of our favorite customers, and neighbor right across the street, Freescale Semiconductor.  Speakers included IoT experts from Freescale, Intel, Medtronics, ASU, and SEMICO Research.

Not surprisingly I talked about how Simulation can play a successful role in product development of IoT devices.

Here is the presentation:

UPDATE (11/9/2015): Great write-up by Don Dingee on this event in the SemiWiki. Click here to read it. It includes a great summary of the other speakers.

You can also see more details on how people use Simulation for this application on the ANSYS, Inc. website here.  We also like this video from ANSYS that shows some great applications and how ANSYS is used with them:

A couple of common themes resonated across the speakers:

1. Price and size need to come down on the chips used in IoT (this was a semiconductor group, so this is a big part of their focus)
2. Lowering power usage and increasing power density in batteries is a key driver
3. The biggest issue in IoT is privacy and security. Keeping your data private and keeping people from hacking in to IoT devices.
4. Another big problem is dealing with all the data collected by IoT devices. How to make it useful and how to store it all.  One answer is reducing the data on the device, another is only keeping track of what changes.
5. It is early, standards are needed but they are still forming.

If you look at this list, the first two problems are addressable with simulation:

PADT has a growing amount of experience with helping customers simulate and design IoT devices as well as the chips, sensors, and antennae that go into IoT devices.  To learn more, shoot us an email at info@padtinc.com or call 480.813.4884.