Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

FIT/CortexLab Inauguration

FIT (Future Internet of Things) is a french Equipex (Équipement d'excellence) which aims to develop an experimental facility, a federated and competitive infrastructure with international visibility and a broad panel of customers. FIT is be composed of four main parts: a Network Operations Center (NOC), a set of Embedded Communicating Object (ECO) test-beds, a set of wireless OneLab test-beds, and a cognitive radio test-bed (CorteXlab) deployed by the Socrate team in the Citi lab. In 2014 the construction of the room was finished see Figure 5 . sdr nodes have installed in the room, 42 industrial PCs (Aplus Nuvo-3000E/P), 22 NI radio boards (usrp ) and 18 Nutaq boards (PicoSDR, 2x2 and 4X4) can be programmed from internet now.

A very successfully inauguration took place on the 28th October 2014 (http://www.inria.fr/centre/grenoble/actualites/inauguration-reussie-de-la-plateforme-cortexlab-equipex-fit ), with the noticable venue of Vincent Poor, Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science of Princeton University.

Figure 5. Photo of the FIT/CortexLab experimentation room installed and a snaptshot of the inauguration meeting