Iranian Firm Able to Produce Custom Chips for IoT Applications
The software reduces energy consumption and increases the processing speed of artificial intelligence models.
This achievement, which was designed at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Tehran under the supervision of Mostafa Ersali Salehi Nasab and Mehdi Modarresi, enables the automatic design of dedicated processors so that artificial intelligence models, specially deep learning, can be developed with very low speed and energy consumption in Internet of Things devices.
Ersali Salehi Nasab, the project leader, described the acceleration of data processing, the ability to accurately predict system behavior, improving information security, and increasing the autonomy of smart devices among the key features of this product.
“This technology, which is now at the TRL4 level and its initial tests have been successfully completed, has shown significant improvements in indicators, including accuracy, speed, and energy consumption,” he said.
Ersali Salehi Nasab noted that given the availability of FPGAs in Iran, this achievement can contribute significantly to the rapid and independent development of artificial intelligence industries.
In a relevant development in 2023, engineers at another Iranian knowledge-based company had also developed a remote control for electrical devices based on the Internet of Things (IoT).
“Given the growing need for smart energy consumption control systems in offices, commercial and residential buildings, our engineers tried to meet the needs and managed to achieve the technology and producing smart remote control devices,” Mohammad Mehdi Rezapour, the managing director of the knowledge-based company said, according to a report by the Iranian Vice Presidency for Science and Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy.
“This device is an Internet-SMS control of electrical appliances (air conditioning, TV, heater, etc.) that provides the necessary services to users through IR (exactly like remote controls) without changing the wiring of electrical appliances,” the researchers further said.
“This device can store 6 IR remote controls regardless of the devices type and brand. It establishes communication with the device via the Internet and SMS system, and it makes it possible to send commands (for areas where there is no antenna coverage). It has internal temperature detection sensor and makes it possible to observe the temperature online. It also comes out with an Android-based application to comfortably connect to the device,” he explained more.
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