In Europe's leading research institute

Thanks to its top-quality researchers and numerous international guests, Inria is at the forefront of networking and computer science research. In 2015, Inria was raked #1 company in France for the wellbeing of its employees.

Co-chairing IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE

The EVA team co-chairs the IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE working groups, which standardize the networking technology for the Factory of the Future and the security solutions.

The Home of Berkeley's OpenWSN

Inria-EVA co-leads Berkeley's OpenWSN project, the de-facto open-source implementation of Industry 4.0 standards such as IEEE802.15.4e Time Synchronized Channel Hopping. In 2015, ETSI selected OpenWSN as the reference implementation of 6TiSCH.

Tight Collaboration with Industry

Inria-EVA prouds itself of its defining technology that is used in commercial solutions. We constantly thrive for tight collaboration with the industry, through European and national projects, bilateral agreements or consultancy. Don't hesitate to contact us.

Extensive International Collaboration

Inria-Paris is located at the heart of Europe, and Inria-EVA has strong research collaborations across the Old Continent and the world. Once example in the REALMS associate team between Inria-EVA, UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan.

Designing Tomorrow's Internet of (Important) Things

Inria-AIO is a leading research team in low-power wireless communications. The team is designing Tomorrow's Internet of (Important) Things. It pushes the limits of low-power wireless mesh networking by applying them to critical applications such as robotics, industrial control loops, with harsh reliability, scalability, security and energy constraints. Inria-AIO co-chairs the IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE standardization working group and co-leads Berkeley's OpenWSN project. Inria-AIO is heavily involved in real-world applications, and oversees over 1,000 sensors deployed on 3 continents for smart agriculture, smart city and environmental monitoring applications. The team's research program is organized around 5 pilars: Smart Dust, Low-Power Wireless Networking, Security in Constrained Systems, Swarm Robotics and Vehicle Area Networking. The team is associated with Prof. Pister's team at UC Berkeley, working on Smart Dust.

Team

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Our publications

AuRA: Remote Attestation over EDHOC for Constrained Internet-of-Things Use Cases. Yuxuan Song, Geovane Fedrecheski, Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Bologna, Italy, 2-5 July 2025.

IEEE ISCC Paper Accepted!!

HyPM: Hybrid Performance Monitoring for Low-Power Wireless Networks. Fabian Graf, Esteban Norena Arroyave, Thomas Watteyne, Michael Villnow. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Bologna, Italy, 2-5 July 2025.

IEEE DCOSS-IoT Paper Accepted!

ELA: Secure, Lightweight, and Zero-Touch Enrollment for IoT Devices. Geovane Fedrecheski, Göran Selander, Thomas Watteyne, Mališa Vučinić. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (IEEE DCOSS-IoT), Lucca, Italy, 9-11 June 2025 .

RTAS Paper Accepted!

Journal-First: Minimal-Overlap Centrality for Multi-Gateway Designation in Real-Time TSCH Networks. Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Luís Almeida, Pedro M. d’Orey, Pedro M. Santos, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Irvine, CA, USA, 6-9 May 2025.

MECC paper accepted!

A Real-Time Operating System Port on Linux for Embedded IoT Devices. Luiz Sampaio, Kate O’Riordan, Dara O’Sullivan, Brian Coffey, Thomas Watteyne. ACM International Workshop on MetaOS for the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum (MECC), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 31 March 2025.

Journal of Network and Computer Applications Article accepted!

A Comprehensive Survey on Channel Hopping and Scheduling Enhancements for TSCH Networks. Martina Balbi, Lance Doherty, Thomas Watteyne. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, to appear in 2025.

IEEE Access article accepted!

Embedded Artificial Intelligence: a Tutorial using the MAX78000. Martina Balbi, Lance Doherty, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Access, to appear in 2025.

GRC paper accepted!

Energy Replenishment Strategies for Robot Swarms. Genki Miyauchi, Mohamed S. Talamali, Mengyao Liu, Lowie Deferme, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels, Jessica Jayakumar, Alexandre Abadie, Geovane Fedrecheski, Martina Balbi, Said Alvarado-Marin, Felix Matzdorf, Julian Rau, Danny Hughes, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross. German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, 13-15 March 2025.

(second) ICRA paper accepted!

Lighthouse Localization of Miniature Wireless Robots. Said Alvarado-Marin, Cristobal Huidobro-Marin, Martina Balbi, Trifun Savic, Thomas Watteyne, Filip Maksimovic. IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), conference version of the RAL article, Atlanta USA, 19–23 May, 2025.

ICRA paper accepted!

CapBot: Enabling Battery-Free Swarm Robotics. Mengyao Liu, Lowie Deferme, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels, Alexandre Abadie, Said Alvarado-Marin, Filip Maksimovic, Genki Miyauchi, Jessica Jayakumar, Mohamed S. Talamali, Thomas Watteyne, Roderich Gross, Danny Hughes. IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), Atlanta USA, 19–23 May, 2025.

In Europe's leading research institute

Co-chairing IETF 6TiSCH and IETF LAKE

The Home of Berkeley's OpenWSN

Tight Collaboration with Industry

Extensive International Collaboration

Designing Tomorrow's Internet of (Important) Things

Team

Research

Publications

(Second) IEEE ISCC Paper Accepted!

IEEE ISCC Paper Accepted!!

IEEE DCOSS-IoT Paper Accepted!

RTAS Paper Accepted!

MECC paper accepted!

Journal of Network and Computer Applications Article accepted!

IEEE Access article accepted!

GRC paper accepted!

(second) ICRA paper accepted!

ICRA paper accepted!