IoT & smart sensors

Have you made your products smart yet? Our connected sensor technologies speed up your R&D process.

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Smart sensor solutions combine technology, intelligence and IoT connectivity to provide reliable data, that we can use to better understand our surroundings. Because of the low cost and big advantages, sensor applications have increased strongly over the last decades, from detecting threats and increasing our comfort to diagnosing diseases. They can make processes more efficient, extend our capabilities and guard our planet.

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Knowing and understanding the physical principles allows you to select the right technology, or a combination of technologies, as well as determine and guarantee the expected performance.

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Sensors tend to be small, low-power and low-cost. This limits the solution space and demands to use and optimize state-of-the art components and integration techniques.

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A smart and connected sensor requires fusing different disciplines: physics, electronics, algorithms, software, connectivity, mechanics, design and manufacturability.

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IoT enables integrating the sensor into a larger (cloud) system. Exploiting the capabilities of the overall system and making the right trade-offs leads to innovative and disruptive solutions.

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Verhaert selects, combines and integrates the most promising technologies to meet your application expectations. Wireless communication, sensors, battery energy harvesting, hard- and software, front- and backend development or integration, cloud or hybrid algorithms in order to develop IoT-based smart sensor nodes.

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Sensors

  • Motion & force sensors
  • Optical sensors
  • Electromagnetic sensors

Cloud platforms

  • IaaS/PaaS: IBM Bluemix, Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
  • Big Data: Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hbase, Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ
  • Server-side: Apache, Node.js, Express.js, MySQL, SqlServer, PostgreSQL

Wireless & embedded processing technology

  • 5G, WiFi, BT, BLE, NB-IOT, LTE-M, …
  • Microprocessor & DSP platforms
  • Edge AI platforms

Power management

  • Low power design & communication
  • Selection of batteries
  • Energy harvesting
  • Remote charging

Apps

  • Native Mobile: iOS, Android, Windows
  • Hybrid Mobile: Ionic 2, Xamarin, Cordova
  • Web client-side: Html5, Css3, Angular.js, Angular (2), Socket.io, Sass, Bootstrap, Foundation, jQuery
  • Programming languages: Java, Swift, Objective-c, Javascript, PHP, Python, C++, C#
  • 3D, Computer Vision, AR/VR: OpenGL, WebGL, OpenCV, OpenNI, Unity3D, ARToolkit, Vuforia SDK

Data algorithms

  • Surrogate modeling
  • Monte Carlo approaches
  • Classifying
  • Predicting
  • Structuring the unstructured
  • Estimate from proxy information
  • Pattern recognition
  • Search/planning/optimization problems
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  • In-car sensor unit to capture & identify local weather conditions, coupled to high resolution weather model for accurate prediction & warning of local events.
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  • High accuracy positioning system for medical applications, based on electromagnetic fields, with 5 degrees-of-freedom for orthopedic surgery.
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  • Retrofittable sensor to measure electricity consumption & production in a non-invasive way at a very low cost & with minimum user interaction.
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Looking for the missing piece in your innovation project? Wondering how the smart connected technologies in our portfolio support your applications? As your R&D partner, Verhaert tackles your challenges in developing smart products.

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