DISIX: A Distributed, Smart Infrastructure for 6G Massive IoT

Purpose and goal

The overall objective of our project is to develop smart infrastructure support for backscatter communication that enables large-scale data collection from ZeroEnergy ZE-IoT devices. Specifically, the project has the goal to increase the low communication range of ZE-IoT devices using distributed MIMO by enabling the smart infrastructure nodes to simultaneously provide the required illumination signal to a ZE-IoT device.

Expected effects and result

At the end of the project, we will have a small-scale demonstrator with a few infrastructure and ZE-IoT devices that provides the distributed MIMO functionality where the infrastructure nodes jointly provide an illumination signal to single ZE-IoT devices according to a smart schedule. Our results will enable more scalable 6G Ambient IoT networks which support data-intensive IoT applications.

Planned approach and implementation

We divide the work into three work packages. WP1 will focus on the bootstrapping and configuration of both ZE-IoT devices and infrastructure. This WP will enable the work in WP2 to design, implement and demonstrate distributed MIMO for efficient, large-scale data collection with ZE-IoT devices. To ensure the utilization and dissemination of the results, both within the own organizations and outside the consortium, we have dedicated a WP (WP3) for these tasks.