Smart manufacturing, smart logistics, or smart farming: Distributed networks of a wide range of sensors are working hard for us every single day. In the past, every application needed a custom solution to operate sensors and process data. Researchers at Fraunhofer IZM have created the autonomous and energy-efficient sensor-actuator platform SWARMY that can be easily mixed and matched for each purpose – saving lots of effort and resources in application development and commissioning.

Wireless sensors are ideal for monitoring and analyzing processes on distributed and moving objects in manufacturing, logistics, or agriculture. Fraunhofer IZM has developed both the hardware and the software for an autonomo ...