A. ENTITY DESCRIPTION 

CSEM founded in 1984, is a private non-profit research and technology organization active in microtechnology, nanotechnology, microelectronics, systems engineering, AI, photovoltaic, and communications technologies, for precision manufacturing, digitalization and sustainable energy. CSEM’s mission is to enhance the competitiveness of Swiss and European industry by developing applied technologies and transferring them to the industrial sector. CSEM is a recognized partner and coordinator of EU projects. Annual turnover 2022: 100 Mio CHF (105 M€), 550+ highly qualified employees.

B. ROLE IN THE HERFUSE PROJECT 

CSEM will provide the wireless sensors networking and data collection to support the testing of new materials and production methods, through a large-scale deployment (at least 100 nodes) of energy-autonomous wireless sensors for operational loads monitoring. The objective of CSEM includes the maturity increase to TRL5-6 of the solution developed in the CS2 project SMARTWISE and the development of secure and practical deployment and management methodologies and tools. A second objective of the work is the redefinition of a damage diagnosis use case using low-energy piezo electric wireless sensors and the development of a TRL4 prototype.