Development of an Integrated RISC-V–Based Platform for Secure Monitoring of Critical Infrastructures (PRIMIC)

The main goal of the PRIMIC project is the design and manufacturing of a System on a Chip (SoC) based on the open RISC-V architecture, ensuring the integrity and traceability of data from the moment it is captured by Worldsensing’s wireless sensors.

Thanks to this new SoC, a system will also be developed that integrates encryption and authentication accelerators, optimizing the capture, transmission, and storage of data from critical infrastructures in an immutable blockchain environment. One of the project’s main innovations lies in the features provided by blockchain technology, which will guarantee the immutability and traceability of data associated with the control and maintenance of infrastructures from the very first stage in which the IoT nodes acquire them. Additionally, throughout the process of assessing the condition of these infrastructures, both the information and its processing—used to extract condition indicators—will also remain traceable. As a result, a comprehensive open-source–based system will be obtained for infrastructure management, founded on data authenticity control and traceability across all stages involved in maintenance management.

The project is part of the public–private collaboration framework of Spain’s State Plan for Scientific, Technical, and Innovation Research 2024–27, managed by the Spanish State Research Agency and co-financed by the European Union.

Worldsensing will carry out this project in collaboration with the Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering of the University of Barcelona and its Tecnio agent CEMIC-UB, the Center for Research and Technology Transfer in Electronic Engineering and Information Technologies.

This project is part of the Worldsensing–University of Barcelona Chair on Industrial IoT.

CPP2024-011612 project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU), the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI – 10.13039/501100011033), and the Spanish European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) of the European Union.