Rice University engineers have one-upped their own technique to increase security for the “internet of things.”

In truth, their upping is far greater than one.

Kaiyuan Yang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering, and graduate student Yan He have introduced a technique to make security more than 14,000 times better than current state-of-the-art defenses while using far less energy.

The Rice team’s technique, introduced with a paper and presentation at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, is a hardware solution centered in the power management circuitry found in most central processing chips.

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Image: Rice University graduate student Yan He, left, and Kaiyuan Yang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will demonstrate their enhanced security strategy for the "internet of things" at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

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