The Low-power Embedded Networked Systems (LENS) group is a team of researchers focusing on future connected wireless embedded systems, aiming to make them more dependable and sustainable. The team's activities can be broadly characterized as "systems and application-driven experimental research" at the intersection of wireless networking, embedded systems, and IoT applications. Among others, the group works on the design principles, optimization methods, and tools necessary to network resource-constrained wireless devices -- which are the basis for the Internet of Things -- in a reliable yet energy-efficient manner.

In the few years since its foundation (2016), the LENS group, led by Assoc.Prof. Dr. Carlo Alberto Boano, has distinguished itself internationally for the scientific excellence of its research on low-power wireless networks and IoT research. More than 25 papers have been published at leading/excellent conferences (i.e., rated CORE A/A*) and more than 20 awards have been received (including numerous best paper/demo/poster/artifact awards). The group has supervised 6 successful PhD theses and over 40 Master's and Bachelor's theses; in total, more than 100 scientific contributions have been published (full list), many of them in collaboration with academic and industrial partners. The research results of the LENS group led to patents as well as to the foundation of a company (DEWINE Labs GmbH) by former group members. Moreover, the group has been involved in several third-party funded national, European, and international projects, and is also internationally renowned for its open benchmarking infrastructures (such as D-Cube), which have been used to organize competitions quantitatively comparing the performance of state-of-the-art low-power wireless systems.