Connected devices and weArables lab
Our group focusses on researching hardware and systems for connected devices and wearables constituting Internet of Bodies (IoB). IoB is an extension of IoT, wherein connected things in, on and around the human body senses and share vital information about the body to remote servers in the cloud for continuous and long-time monitoring of the individual and surroundings.
What Is the Internet of Bodies?, Internet of Bodies: Our Connected Future
Specific Research Interests
Hardware Security: Develop PUF-based hardware security measures to protect the wearable devices from unauthorized access or replacements (e.g., PUFs for wearables)
Low Power and Secure Communication, Including Human Body Communication: Explore different modalities of secure and ultra-low-power short-range communication between wearable devices and off-body transceivers. (e.g., visible light communication, human body communication, capacitive communication, etc.,)
Tiny-ML: Application of machine learning for resource constrained embedded systems.
Low-Power Wearable Designs: Design of low power wearables for long-term battery free vital signs monitoring.
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[Pinned] Open Positions: Part-Time and Full-Time Ph.D. [More Details]
[Paper Acceptance, January 2025] (Accepted) Dilli Babu Porlapothula, Kurian Polachan, CapPUF: a Tamper-Resistant PUF Utilizing I/O Capacitances for IoT Nodes", has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, London, UK from May 25-28, 2025.
[Paper Acceptance, October 2024] (Accepted) Soumick Majumdar, Anshul Madurwar, Anmol Shetty and Kurian Polachan, "hbcLock: Encrypted RF Communication Utilizing Body-Coupled Keys for the Internet of Bodies", VLSID 2024, Bangalore, India
[Paper Acceptance, October 2024] (Accepted) Kurian Polachan, and Bijeet Basak, PyBlkSim: An Open-Source Block-Based Discrete-Time Simulator, COMSNETS 2025, Bangalore, India
[Paper Acceptance, October 2024] (Accepted) Phani Pavan Kambhampati, Jagan P, Kurian Polachan, Madhav Rao, Murmur: A Secure and Low-Energy Audio Communication for the Internet of Bodies, COMSNETS 2025, Bangalore, India
[June, 2024] Prof. Kurian Polachan presented two papers at the IEEE MELECON conference and served as the session chair for the session on Sensors and Cyber Physical Systems
[June, 2024] Travel support offer from SERB (https://serbonline.in/SERB/its) for attending conference IEEE MELECON 2024, Portugal. https://2024.ieee-melecon.org/
Hosted - Online Guest Lecture on RF Systems Design by Dr. Manu Thayyil, Celtro Gmbh, Dresden, Germany.
[New: March, 2024] Congratulations to Kavya Agarwal, Ritesh Lalwani, Abeena U for acceptance of their paper on low-energy visible light communication in IEEE SmartNets, USA, 2024.
[New: March, 2024] Two research papers on Hardware Security is accepted in IEEE MELECON 2024, Portugal. Congratulations to resesarchers of CDWEL - Pralay Chakrabarty, Ananya Lakshmi Ravi, Shab Naz, Ayesha Daniya Mulla, Sumayya H, and Rifa Sameen Sarang.
[August 2023] CDWL Welcomes Postdoc Dr. Pralay Chakrabarty Ph.D., IIT Guwahati) and Research Associate S Ananda Theertan (M.Tech, IIT Hyderabad)
[August 2023] Patent Filed on “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION”, Indian Patent Application Number: 202341048494
[August 2023] Invited talk on "Introduction to Internet of Bodies and Human Body Communication", Samvaad at IIIT-Bangalore
[July 2023] CDWEL welcome MS by research candidates Soumick Majumdar and Dilli Babu Porlapothula
[June 2023] Invited talk on "Introduction to Internet of Bodies and Human Body Communication" as a part of M2M and IoT Workshop at MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore. (Link)
[June 2023] CDWEL welcome summer research interns Piyush Kumar (NIT Rourkela), Abeena U (IISER Bhopal), Ananya Ravi (IIITDM Kancheepuram) and Dara Sai (NIT Meghalaya).
[April 2023] RTOS workshop by Peeyush Kumar from Infineon. Organized as a part of Embedded Systems Design Course at IIIT-B.
