Wireless Technologies for small area Networks with Embedded Security & Safety (WITNESS) aims to develop new techniques for short-range wireless communication using very low power techniques. As in all wireless transmissions, significant risk of interference and security attack being a potential cause of major communication link failure with harmful consequences on safety and privacy.

CISC Semiconductor contributed to this project in total more than 5 man years within the timeframe from 2005 to mid of 2007. Main areas of CISC Semiconductor's R&D work cover tools and design methodologies for system development mainly at that level in BAN, Bluetooth and Zigbee. Beeing active in a number of relevant standardization bodies (a.o. ISO/IEC and CENELEC) CISC Semiconductor proposes and supports the project contributions in these standards. Furthermore, CISC applies UHF and LF system concepts to system design and evaluation of active LF and UHF systems and models key building blocks of the system in a system design language.

More public information is available on the MEDEA+ web page or from the Witness project profile ( _{0,2 MByte}).