Orientation of the IMP

The IMP is particularly committed to projects in environmental technology.
The largest CO2 emissions are caused by industry. High-temperature processes in particular are responsible for this. The IMP offers a solution that beats the much-discussed hydrogen solutions in energy efficiency and can also be implemented quickly! Natural gas, petrol, diesel and also hydrogen burners can be replaced by microwave plasma burners! The GHz plasma jets used for this purpose require around three times less (electrical) energy (from renewable sources) than hydrogen burners!!!
GHz plasma technology is thus another technology for reducing current pollutant emissions in general (especially CO2 emissions). For example, with the help of the GHz spark plug in petrol engines, CO2 emissions can be reduced by around 27%.
For the protection of people, projects such as the microwave scalpel and a new system for sea rescue are worth mentioning. Project partners are being sought for upcoming research projects on maintenance-free air purification without filters.
We also try to keep CO2 pollution as low as possible in our day-to-day research. Thus, from the beginning in 2002 until 2013, only environmentally friendly natural gas vehicles were used for business trips. Unfortunately, (legislative) infrastructures no longer allow us to do so and car rental vehicles have to be used.

Through a 3-year research project on sea rescue, the IMP has verified a new mixed-frequency measurement technology. As you can see from the paper DOI: 10.1017/S1759078721000520, we have proven that our new technology approach allows the detection of very small objects up to the horizon of sight (here 5.8 km).However, such rescue systems are not commercially interesting for the manufacturers. Helmets for motorbikes, seat belts for cars were introduced purely through legislation. With our technology, we are able to supplement the previous cat's eye, so that the number of injured and killed pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, etc. is reduced very considerably!
If every lorry and car is equipped with a new radar, which is only a little more complex than a previous radar (similar to the intelligent cruise control), then this radar will not only detect the direction, but also the distance and speed of these small objects.
The radar tag that replaces the cat's eye also costs no more than a cat's eye and can be sewn into clothing. This system also works in heavy rain, fog, snow, etc. Of course, there is a big chicken/egg problem here. The technology is not cheap until there are semiconductors, but you can only bring something like this into being via a political track. Therefore, please forward this information in the direction of the decision-makers!

The release of more and more radio bands (newspapers speak of bandwidths, frequencies) brings a lot of innovation for users and challenges for developers. Additional radio bands are nowadays what new motorways used to mean.

Unfortunately, politics sells all new radio bands to the network operators, whose interests only partly overlap with the interests of industry and consumers. Network operators can only operate large networks. On the other hand, the need for new "piconets" (e.g. WLAN) is gigantic. Only piconets can really advance Industry 4.0. If a large area with an edge length of 10 km is used by a network operator, then it occupies 10000 individual piconets (100m), each of which can transmit at least 10 times the amount of data. This means that the data volume would be 100,000 times greater if the politicians did not sell the radio bands but released them.

With the money from the sale, politicians would like to promote digitalisation, which they unfortunately hinder immensely through the sale. Those who also make good money from toll motorways are the ones who earn money from it. Certainly, an important positive economic factor in Germany is that we are not constantly slowed down by toll stations. The IMP has wireless hardware solutions that offer the greatest bandwidths with all the best real-time capability and are also the smallest and cheapest transceiver circuits and can be implemented very well in the one-, two- and three-digit GHz range. Furthermore, the IMP has a complex radio technology that can still detect vectorial signals in the range of 10 atto-watts. This new basic technology can also be used in new mobile radio networks that follow 5G.