Meet IFAG

Infineon Technologies AG (IFAG) designs, develops, manufactures and distributes a wide range of semiconductors and system solutions for customers around the world with the help of worldwide 58,060 employees. Whether microcontrollers for autonomous vehicles, microphones for smartphones or radar sensors for medical applications- IFAG’s products and services play a key role in many modern devices and technological trends and generated sales of 15 billion euros in the 2024 financial year. 26 per cent of these sales were done in Europe, 59 per cent in Asia and 15 per cent in North and South America through its established distribution channels.

Can you provide an overview of your role and involvement in the DELPHI project?

IFAG supports the goals of the DELPHI project with its knowledge about sensors (radar, gas, microphones), microcontrollers and processing of data at the edges of the transportation and logistics network. This is manifested in IFAG’s work of developing sensor nodes for the project’s Athen use case and the implementation of approaches and algorithms for data ingestion and processing as well as by the exploration of possibilities for extending the DELPHI system from the cloud towards edge nodes like drones, smartphones or vehicles.

What makes modernizing transportation and logistics systems so difficult, and what central challenges is IFAG tackling in DELPHI—specifically around integrating sensor/edge nodes and distributing solutions across the edge–cloud continuum?

Modernization of transportation and logistics systems is quite challenging due to fragmentation, data base inconsistencies, siloing of providers, security and other challenges. This leads to the circumstance that the integration of sensor and other edge nodes into these systems requires custom solutions that are harder to scale and tend to generate overhead and cost. Solving this integration task and then distributing the system over the emerging edge-cloud continuum are the central challenges that IFAG faces in DELPHI.

What is DELPHI’s current scope in modernizing transportation and logistics, and why does IFAG see it as only a first step—given the edge-computing work still needed for trends like autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, and AI agents, and the heavy data processing/management/transfer between cloud and edge that future systems must handle?

The DELPHI project is mainly focused on modernizing and federating the cloud part of transportation and logistics systems. However, a lot of research and work need to be done for the edge aspects to prepare transportation and logistics for technology trends such as autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots and AI agents. Especially, the processing, management and transfer between cloud and edge of the high amount of data generated by these trends will be central challenges that future systems need to address. Hence, IFAG considers DELPHI only a first step in the direction of next generation transportation and logistics networks.

Is there anything else you would like to mention or highlight?

The work and collaboration with the diverse set of partners in the DELPHI project allows IFAG to gain more insight in the area of urban transportation and logistics. These insights will be leveraged by IFAG after projects to develop more safe, robust and sustainable products that fulfill all necessary requirements to support the creation of an edge-cloud continuum for transportation and logistics applications.