Home monitoring draws on sensors from different manufacturers speaking different protocols, and the raw stream they produce — bed occupancy, movement, doors, appliance use — is among the most revealing data a person can generate. Collecting it at scale needs both interoperability and strict control over who can read it or reach the devices.
sensiNact is an open-source IoT platform originating from roughly seven years of research at CEA, now maintained by the Eclipse Foundation and commercialised by Kentyou, a CEA spin-off. It provides a common layer for collecting and transferring data from heterogeneous sensors and manufacturers, so that applications can consume it without being rebuilt for each device type.
In the M-Sec stack, sensiNact handled interoperable and scalable data collection, working alongside the Security Manager, which enforced access control over raw data and over interaction with the IoT devices themselves.
– Protocol-agnostic collection and transfer across heterogeneous sensors and manufacturers
– Open-source core, maintained by the Eclipse Foundation
– Access control over raw data reads and device interaction
– Scalable data transfer suited to city-scale and multi-home deployments
– Integration surface for external security and storage components
Used in the Santander home monitoring pilot (M-Sec Use Case 2) to collect data from the household sensor kits installed in participants’ homes and pass it securely into the Senior Care platform. sensiNact also carries a longer smart-city lineage through the ClouT, BigClouT and M-Sec projects, in which Santander and Fujisawa recur as paired European and Japanese pilot cities.
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