Aunoa Advances SafeRoute-6G with Infineon Edge AI

Innovation · European Project SafeRoute-6G

We’ve just received the development kit that Infineon Technologies and LMT IoT hand out to the companies selected for the Cellular Edge AI Mentorship program. With it, we’re accelerating one of the pilots we’re building within SafeRoute-6G, the European R&D project researching the safer, more connected, smarter mobility of the future.

At Aunoa, we’ve spent months turning urban infrastructure into smart observation points for mobility. This new equipment lets us take the next step: putting Infineon’s PSOC™ Edge E84 platform and LMT IoT’s LPWAN connectivity through their paces to build a new generation of smart nodes — more energy-efficient, more autonomous, and ready for real urban deployments.

What is the Cellular Edge AI Mentorship program?

The Cellular Edge AI Mentorship is a joint initiative from Infineon Technologies and LMT IoT designed to accelerate the development of IoT solutions that combine Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge AI) with low-power cellular connectivity. The program selects companies with innovative projects and gives them direct technical guidance, plus the hardware needed to move from concept to working prototype. Taking part gives us access to both companies’ technical teams and to a development kit built specifically to accelerate connected-mobility use cases like ours.

The kit powering our pilot: PSOC™ Edge E84 and LPWAN connectivity

The kit we received combines two key pieces. First, Infineon’s PSOC™ Edge E84 platform, a dual-core microcontroller (an Arm® Cortex®-M55 running at up to 400 MHz with Helium support, plus an Arm® Cortex®-M33 at up to 200 MHz) built to run machine learning models directly on the device, with an Ethos-U55 NPU and a low-power NNLite accelerator, backed by the DEEPCRAFT™ Edge AI software stack. Second, LMT IoT’s LPWAN connectivity, which transmits data at minimal power draw even in areas with limited coverage. Together, these two technologies give us exactly what we need to process information on the node itself, without relying on the cloud — preserving people’s privacy and cutting communication traffic significantly.

SafeRoute-6G: safer mobility for all of Europe

SafeRoute-6G is an international R&D project under the EUREKA CELTIC-NEXT program, bringing together 24 organizations from eight countries — Austria, Canada, Spain, Finland, Luxembourg, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Turkey — to research and validate new infrastructure and services for safer, more connected, and smarter mobility. The project runs from November 2024 to April 2028, with a combined budget of more than €7.2 million, and aims to harness technologies such as 5G-Advanced, 6G, hybrid networks, artificial intelligence, Edge Computing, and Digital Twins to improve road safety, traffic management, and the mobility services of the future.

We’re the only Spanish company in the consortium. We lead the work package for collecting data at 12 test sites across different countries, develop our own AI algorithms, and validate our technology in three cybersecurity-focused pilots. Funding from CDTI Innovación and ERDF funds has been key to making this leap possible.

Our pilot in Spain: urban infrastructure that reads mobility in real time

Within SafeRoute-6G, we’re building our own pilot in Spain. Our goal is to turn existing urban infrastructure into smart observation points capable of understanding mobility flows in real time. Thanks to Edge AI, all the processing happens directly on the device: we don’t send video or raw data to the cloud, only information that’s already processed and anonymized. This preserves the privacy of the people moving through those spaces and cuts operating and communication costs significantly.

Why Edge AI is key to the mobility of the future

This isn’t an isolated move. The global Edge AI market is growing fast, and connected mobility is one of its main drivers: according to Global Market Insights, the market is expected to reach USD 30.9 billion in 2026 and surpass USD 225.5 billion by 2035, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.7%. Within that market, the transport and logistics segment is one of the fastest-growing — from USD 2.96 billion in 2025 to USD 35.26 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of roughly 28.3% — precisely because decisions like navigation, routing, or traffic management depend on processing information at the actual point of activity, not on a remote server. In parallel, MarketsandMarkets estimates the global V2X (vehicle-to-everything) market will grow from USD 0.5 billion in 2023 to USD 9.5 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 51.9%. These figures confirm what we’re already seeing in our own pilot: the future of connected mobility is increasingly being built at the edge of the network.

Frequently asked questions

Want the full picture of every technology behind SafeRoute-6G? Read our article “SafeRoute-6G: así será la movilidad inteligente del futuro” (in Spanish).

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