Project will allow the IoT to stand the test of time
The US National Science Foundation has made a $4million award to a team from UCLA that is investigating the challenge of timekeeping in cyber physical systems (CPS) – or the Internet of Things.
Over a five year period, the Roseline project, based at UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science, will work to improve how computers maintain their knowledge of physical time and synchronise it with these networked devices.
The team says it will 'rethink and reengineer' how the knowledge of time is handled across a system's hardware and software. It is looking to develop new clocking technologies, synchronisation protocols and operating system methods, as well as control and sensing algorithms.
Professor Mani Srivastava said: "We will drive CPS research with a deeper understanding of time and its trade offs and advance the state of the art in clocking circuits and platform architectures."
