Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOIT20230206038
- Term of Validity
- 6 February 2023 - 5 February 2025
- Company's Country
- Italy
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A deep-tech newco based in Northern Italy designs, engineers and manufactures high-performance inductive position sensors for the automotive, aerospace and other industrial sectors. The design is based on proprietary, patented simulation software already used by semiconductor market leaders. They are looking for new commercial agreements with technical assistance.
- Full Description
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The company is a spin-off of the University of Udine. The team members have a long term experience in the field of electromagnetic simulation evidenced by numerous publications in international scientific journals. Currently the company has a close collaboration with leading multinational companies in the microelectronics industry thanks to their know-how about electromagnetic modeling. The proprietary, patented, high-performance electromagnetic simulation software has proven to be up to 2500 times faster and more accurate than its direct market competitors.
Using this simulation software technology, the company has developed a fast metodology to design and optimize inductive position sensors for the automotive, aerospace and other industrial sectors.
The company offers products and services at various levels of complexity to suit the requirements both of SMEs and large multinational corporations.
As a service, it offers custom designs of inductive position sensors.
At the product level, it offers a license for the automatic design software available on a proprietary cloud computing architecture; it produces and markets personalized or off-the-shelf sensors. - Advantages and Innovations
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When using optical encoders or magnetic position sensors, the customer has to chose between off-the-shelf sensors and the products have to be designed around them. On the contrary, the position sensor market is pushing toward the personalized design and production of sensors in the spirit of the production paradigm known as engineer to order. In this way, in fact, the sensors can be easily integrated into the final products. Differently from optical encoders or magnetic sensors, inductive position sensors can be easily personalized, being based on the cheap printed circuits board technology. Yet, the design of inductive position sensors is difficult because is based on transmitting and receiving coils that have a very complicated shape. Moreover, usually the sensor presents a big linearity error, which prevents its use for some applications requiring accurate positioning.
The unique design tool developed by the company allows to obtain a fast co-design of the tailor-made sensors. One of the keys for the design speed is the virtual prototyping software, which is able to characterize the sensor in about one minute. With other commercial software, the same simulation takes 2500 more time. The other original charateristics of the tool is that it builds automatically in real-time the shape of the coils given the desired footprint of the sensor. This allows to reduce the design and characterization time for a single sensor from several man days or weeks to 1 minute.
Another advantage is that the customers find in the company a partner that can help them at any level: from a single design of the sensor to the pre-series production and industrialization; from the development of the cloud-based tool for the automatic sensor design to the research and creation of new IPs.
Finally, the company guarantees a reliable supply chain of microelectronic components thanks to industrial partnerships with international producers of inductive position sensing chips. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- IPR status
- IPR applied but not yet granted
- IPR notes
- All softwares sold by the startup have been developed in-house and are based on the peculiar IP on computer simulation technology. The most important innovations have been protected with a patent. Besides the simulation software, the startup applied for 4 different patents in the field of electromagnetic sensors and biosensors. Copyright is also protected by IPR.
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- The company searches new industrial partners in the automotive and manufacturing market. In particular, the company offers tools particularly advantageous in the sector of electromgnetic sensors (for example, inductive or magnetic position sensors, biosensors, etc) and for companies that produce printed circuit boards and magnetic components (i.e. inductors, transformers, wireless power devices, DC-DC flyback converters, etc).
- Type and Size of Partner
- R&D Institution
- University
- SME 50 - 249
- SME <=10
- SME 11-49
- Big company
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01001002 - Digital Systems, Digital Representation
- 01003016 - Simulation
- 09001004 - Electrical Technology related to measurements
- 09001009 - Sensor Technology related to measurements
- Market keywords
- 03001009 - Other electronics related (including keyboards)
- 02007011 - Manufacturing/industrial software
- 08002003 - Process control equipment and systems
- 08002002 - Industrial measurement and sensing equipment
- 02007014 - Other industry specific software
- Sector Groups Involved
- Electronics
- Aerospace and Defence
- Digital
- Mobility - Transport - Automotive
- Targeted countries
- All countries