One of India’s premier learning institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has said its team of researchers had developed ‘MOUSHIK’, an indigenously-made microprocessor for the Internet of things (IoT) devices.
A report by news agency IANS said ‘MOUSHIK’ was a IoT micoprocessor cum a system-on-chip’ that can catered to the rapidly-growing IoT devices, an integral part of smart cities of a digital India.
It was conceptualised, designed and developed at the Pratap Subrahmanyam Centre for Digital Intelligence and Secure Hardware Architecture (PS-CDISHA) of the RISE Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.
The processor can be used in credit cards, electronic voting machines (EVMs), surveillance cameras, safe locks, personalized Health Management Systems and a boost of other Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
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