2. avg. 2011

CFP: IoT-ET 2012

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: Embracing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications and Beyond (in conjunction with

IEEE WCNC 2012)

 

http://iot-et2012.weebly.com/

 

Paris, France

1 April 2012

 

Paper Submission Deadline: 10 Oct. 2011

 

 

26. jul. 2011

Across my desk (5)

Arduino The Documentary

 

LabVIEW Interface for Arduino (blog)

…  LabVIEW Interface for Arduino (LIFA) Toolkit is a FREE download that allows developers to acquire data from the Arduino microcontroller and process it in the LabVIEW Graphical Programming environment …

 

Arduino Software for MATLAB and Simulink

… control your Arduino board over USB from a host-based MATLAB session (ArduinoIO Package) … use Simulink to create programs that run directly on the Arduino board (Arduino Target) …

 

chipKIT Max32 Arduino Compatible Prototyping Platform

… combines compatibility with the popular Arduino open source hardware prototyping platform with the performance of the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller …

… can be programmed using an environment based on the original Arduino IDE modified to support PIC32 … fully compatible with the advanced Microchip MPLAB IDE and the PICKit3 in-system programmer/debugger …

 

Evolution of Sensors & Embedded Systems

… IEEE 1451 standard, which had a goal of developing network- and vendor-independent sensor interfaces …

… components can work together more cleanly, people doing monitoring and control “can take off-the-shelf components and integrate them into a system with easy-to-use software.” …

… wireless is an integral part of the future evolution of sensors and embedded systems—which touches everything from personal products to vast systems and structures … the home automation market seems ready to explode …

 

Global M2M Innovations

NETRA, an inexpensive mobile visual testing tool from the MIT Media Lab. NETRA is a clip-on “eyepiece” device for mobile phones that screens for eye conditions, then transmits data to a remote optometrist …

 

TI: dual-mode single-chip solution delivers ANT+ and Bluetooth connectivity

…  CC2567 device, a wireless, single-chip solution that enables direct short-range communication between ultra low-power, ANT+-enabled devices and commonly used mobile devices relying on Bluetooth (2.1 + EDR) technology …

… enables simultaneous operation over a shared antenna with built-in coexistence …

CC2570 & CC2571 - 1- & 8-channel ANT RF Network Processor …

 

A unique Internet IP address for every light bulb

… JenNet-IP is highly secure, offering 128-bit AES encryption with secure authentication and device joining, and will be made available under an Open Source license in Q4 2011 …

7. maj 2011

17. apr. 2011

CFP: IEEE iThings 2011

IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2011)

http://www.ieee-iot.org/

 

Dalian, China

19-22 October 2011

 

Paper submission deadline: 1 May 2011

16. apr. 2011

CFP: DMSN'11

8th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN'11)

http://www.softnet.tuc.gr/dmsn11/

 

Seattle, USA

29 August 2011

 

Paper submission:  2 May 2011

Notification:  11 Jul 2011

Camera-ready copy due: 1 Aug 2011

 

15. apr. 2011

CFP: ACM PE-WASUN 2011

8th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks

http://sertel.upc.edu/pe-wasun11/

 

Miami Beach, USA

31 October  - 4 November 2011

 

Paper Registration due 8 June 2011

Full paper due  10 June 2011

 

CONET Summer School - Networked Embedded Systems: Humans in the Loop

http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/school/2011

 

24-30 July 2011

Bertinoro, Italy

 

Application deadline: 30 April 2011

 

12. apr. 2011

ARTIST Summer School Europe 2011

http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/Overview,2278.html

 

4-9 September 2011

Aix-les-Bains, France

 

Application deadline: 15 May 2011

 

10. apr. 2011

IEEE/ICE Summer School 2011

IEEE/ICE Summer School on Networked Embedded Systems (ICESS2011)

http://ice.aau.at/ss-2011/

 

3-7 September 2011

Klagenfurth, Austria

 

Deadline for application: 15 May  2011

 

9. apr. 2011

CFP: ANT-2011

2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011)

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/

 

19-21 September 2011

Niagara Falls, Ontario, canada

 

Submission Deadline 30 April 2011

Author Notification 30 May 2011

Final Manuscript Due 27 June 2011

 

CFP: SAE 2011

The FTRA International Workshop on Security and Application for Embedded systems (SAE 2011)

http://web.ftrai.org/sae2011/

 

20-22 October 2011

Gwangju, Korea

 

Paper submission due: 20 May 2011

Notification of acceptance:  10 July 2011

Camera-ready paper & early registration due: 1 August 2011

24. mar. 2011

CFP: BodyNets 2011

http://www.bodynets.org/

 

7.-10. Nov. 2011

 

Beijing, China

 

Full Paper Due: 31. May 2011

 

10. mar. 2011

Smart Sensor Systems Course

Smart Sensor Systems 2011

 

http://ei.ewi.tudelft.nl/courses/smart_sensor_systems/2011/overview.htm

 

11- 14 April 2011

Delft, The Netherlands

 

3. mar. 2011

CFP: PWSN 2011

3rd International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (in conjuction with IEEE DCOSS 2011)

 

http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2011/

 

29 June 2011

Barcelona, Spain

 

Paper Submission Deadline: 1 April 2011

 

23. feb. 2011

Across my desk (4)

… Clockwatcher, a wearable contraption involving a data acquisition module and various sensors recording a range of physiological parameters as you tackle a typical day … a series of algorithms interprets the data to tell you what your body thinks you should be doing at any given time …
… application for a company of 1000 employees that has to cover a 24-hour day – how to plan the shifts to reach a win-win-win proposition, with the workers having minimal health deficits, with company having higher productivity and happier stuff and with government having minimally burden social healthcare system …

Streetline: A San Francisco-based company that uses the latest sensor technology to help citizens find inexpensive parking quickly, while helping cities to manage their parking resources more efficiently …

… While the idea of Internet balkanization might sound disturbing, in practice this is still not a pressing issue for ISPs in the West. There is, however, one area where Western nations might begin to feel the squeeze: the "Internet of things." …


… Internet of things (IoT) is, after the modern computer (1946) and the Internet (1972), the world's third wave of the ICT industry …
… the concept of IoT was expressed in the form of ‘computers everywhere’ by Professor Ken Sakamura (University of Tokyo) in 1984 and ‘ubiquitous computing’ by Mark Weiser (Xerox PARC) in 1988, the phrase ‘Internet of things’ was coined by Kevin Ashton (Procter & Gamble) in 1998 and developed by the Auto-ID Centre at (MIT) …
… IoT will primarily expand communication from the seven billion people around the world to the estimated 50-70 billion machines …
… experts predict that the IoT will help tackle two of the biggest problems facing mankind today: energy and health care …
… Over the past two years, a number of consumer applications based on IoT technologies have successfully shown the way ahead. Let’s mention some of them: Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform with both a hardware and software component; Arrayent – the so-called ‘Cisco of small things’ – which is basically middleware for companies willing to connect their products to smartphones and computers via the Internet; CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth), a platform built by HP to create a worldwide network of sensors, which will provide a feedback loop for objects and people for measuring vibration, rotation, sound, air flow, light, temperature, pressure and much more; Nike+, a well-known example of sensors in a non-computing device, which allows running shoes to track our run and send the data to our iPod or automatically tweet and post a status report on Facebook or Foursquare; Pachube, an open IoT platform that allows us to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments, both physical and virtual. …
Open.Sen.se – an open platform for all those who want to imagine and test new devices, installations, scenarios, and applications for the IoT …
… six key challenges (for Europe): (1) mobilise a critical mass of research and innovation effort, (2) develop a new definition of privacy, (3) protect the different building blocks of the IoT … o assure a certain level of security during the cooperation among IoT multiple actors, (4) develop an ethics of the IoT, (5) fully participate in the shrinking world (top-down vs. bottom-up approach), (6) use IoT to assert civilisational values …

CFP: ALGOSENSORS 2011

7th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities

 

http://www.algosensors.org/algosensors11/

 

8-9 September 2011

Saarbruecken, Germany

 

Paper submission deadline: 21 June 2011

CFP: IE'11

The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments

 

http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie11

 

25-28 July 2011

Nottingham, UK

 

Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2011

22. feb. 2011

CFP: MobiSense 2011

1st International Workshop on Opportunistic Sensing and Processing in Mobile Wireless Sensor and Cellular networks

 

http://www.mobilight.org/MobiSense2011.shtml

 

9-11 May 2011

Bilbao, Spain

 

Paper submission: 1 March 2011

 

31. jan. 2011

Across my desk (3)

… ultralow power wireless sensor nodes + energy harvesting technology = completely autonomous systems (powered by local ambient energy instead of batteries) …
… effective energy harvesting system requires a clever power-management scheme to convert the miniscule levels of free energy into a form usable by the wireless sensor system …
… microprocessors and analog sensors that consume only microwatts of power and small, low cost, low power RF transceivers are widely available - the missing link in enabling practical energy harvesting has been a power converter/power management block that can operate from one or more of the common sources of free energy…
… LTC3108: thermal energy harvesting (powering wireless sensors from a thermoelectric generator - TEG) … TEG is attached to the machinery, with a heat sink on the cool (ambient) side …

… Macrosense - platform for analyzing large amounts of mobile location data in real-time to drive relevant recommendation, personalization and discovery …

GE Nucleus - energy display (under development, expected in the third quarter of 2011), connected to a smart meter it shows real time or over time energy consumption, Nucleus acts as a networking hub with ZigBee to communicate with a smart meter …
ThinkEco - additional plug which fits over ordinary power plugs and is equipped with a Zigbee radio, USB stick in a PC is used to see the energy usage and control …
LG featured its array of smart appliances (washer, dryer, refrigerator, robot vacuum cleaner) (proprietary smart technology, Wi-Fi connection) …

LIVE Singapore! project @ MIT SENSEable City Lab - exploring the so what? aspect of WoT , which is how to actually build something useful on top of all these sensors (see also ) …
… have seen most IoT/WoT projects applied to smart buildings and home automation, and other mobile interaction scenarios, but it is worthwhile to consider how this fits the bigger picture and think of more meaningful scenarios … LIVE Singapore! project aims to build a scalable platform for real-time data processing and sharing …
… cities are a goldmine of data, and who can derive most meaningful information out of this mess of data, will be happy …

25. jan. 2011

ONE-NET

ONE-NET - open-source standard for low power wireless networking

http://www.one-net.info/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/one-net/

 

… optimized for very low power, very low cost and very good security …

… can be ported on variety of wireless transceivers and microcontrollers (including VSN) …

24. jan. 2011

Across my desk (2)

… CC2567 device is the first wireless, single-chip solution that enables direct short-range communication between ultra low-power, ANT+-enabled devices and commonly used mobile devices relying on Bluetooth® technology such as PCs, smartphones and tablets …

… DECT is more than just telephones … DECT ULE is an ultra-low-energy extension to DECT … its combination of range, high data rate and zero interference with the potential to run on batteries for years is unique … DECT Forum has established an international Lower Power Working Group to drive development within the DECT community and present an open standard proposal to ETSI …
… DECT ULE's low current consumption is achieved in the same way as in other low-power systems - by allowing the IC to operate in a sleep mode for most of the time … DECT operates in the 1880 to 1900 MHz frequency band (outside Europe the 1910-1930 MHz and 1900-1920 MHz bands are also used). This 20 MHz of radio spectrum is split into ten channels with a spacing of 1.728 MHz. In addition to this division by frequency (FDMA), DECT also splits up the available space into time slots (TDMA). In total, there are 24 time slots per frequency band (12 "down" and 12 "up") … WSN sleep (20 s), long range (250 mW), interference free (1.9 GHz band) …



… Atmel was showing off a range of technology including RF4CE remote controls …
… reenpeak's RF4CE remote control adds a "Find Me" feature. This uses the bidirectional 802.15.4 communication system underlying RF4CE …
… Bug Labs was showing off their latest kit (BUG 2.0 Modular Wireless Development Platform, watch) …
… Freescale was showing how 3D glasses could be controlled by ZigBee …

… No. 42: Home Energy Monitors (Belkin Conserve, GE Nucleus) …
… No. 56: Near Field Communication …
… No. 76: Self-Powering Devices …
… No. 78: Smart-Infrastructure Investment …
… No. 83: Social Objects (Stickybits) …
… No. 88: Tap-to-Pay …

17. jan. 2011

Across my desk (1)

… ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA (OSE: NOD) and ANT Wireless announce their participation in an “eWellness” cycling performance monitoring exhibit with leading consumer electronics and technology companies today at CES …
… performance data, such as cadence, power, speed, and heart rate, is transmitted from the wireless sensors using ANT+ communication, to Pioneer’s ANT+-equipped “cyclocomputer” (cycling computer) that has 3G network capability. Cyclocomputer is equipped with map and other helpful applications for training and weight control, and displays real-time performance data from the network of ANT+ sensors on the bike …

… at the recent Tour de France, the world’s most prestigious cycling event, ANT+ formed a critical link in a system that enabled Internet users to track the performance of individual HTC Columbia riders in real time …
… ANT+’s interoperability between the SRM ANT+ sensors and HTC’s Android-based smartphones …
… HTC Columbia team cyclists used ANT+ (running on Nordic’s ANT chips), coin cell powered monitoring devices communicating with an HTC Legend phone carried beneath the bike’s seat …
… Android-powered smartphone runs a Google MyTracks application combining sensor data with GPS information and transmitting via the cellular network to the Internet …

… CC2530ZNP provides a simple, off-the-shelf ZigBee solution without requiring designers to learn the complexities of a full ZigBee stack …
…  CC2530ZNP supports TI’s Z-Stack software and SimpleAPI, which has only 10 calls to learn and communicates to host processor via an SPI or UART command interface …
… compatible devices from TI include the CC2590 and CC2591 2.4-GHz analog front ends (range extenders), MSP430 ultra-low-power microcontrollers and Stellaris ARM processors …

… Microsoft Project Natal operates through a sensor bar, placed beneath or above the TV. But that’s where the similarities end. Project Natal combines an RGB camera, a depth sensor (consisting of an infrared projector combined with a monochrome CMOS sensor), and a multi-array microphone to enable full-body 3D motion capture, facial recognition, and voice recognition …

… classic Bluetooth technology is a "connection oriented" radio with a fixed connection interval ideal for high activity connections like mobile phones linking with wireless headsets. In contrast, Bluetooth low-energy technology employs a variable connection interval that can be set from a few milliseconds to several seconds depending on the application. In addition, because it features a very rapid connection, Bluetooth low-energy technology can normally be in a "not connected" state (saving power) where the two ends of a link are aware of each other, but only link up when absolutely necessary and then for as short a time as possible …
… three characteristics of Bluetooth low-energy technology that underlie its ULP performance: maximized standby time, fast connection, and low peak transmit/receive power …  to minimize time on air it employs only three "advertising" channels to search for other devices or promote its own presence … radio switches between channels in a pseudo-random pattern using the Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) technology pioneered by Classic Bluetooth … another reason why Bluetooth low-energy technology spends minimal time on air is because it features a raw data bandwidth of 1Mbps – greater bandwidth allows more information to be sent in less time …
Profiles optimize a generic Bluetooth low energy chip for a specific application such as Personal User Interface Devices (PUID) (such as watches), Remote Control, Proximity Alarm, Battery Status and Heart Rate Monitor. Other health and fitness monitoring profiles such as blood-glucose and -pressure, cycle cadence, and cycle crank power will follow …



…  bqTELSA development kit includes a single-channel transmitter, a direct-charge receiver and associated magnetics for applications requiring 5 watts of power or less …

11. jan. 2011

CFP: IEEE MASS 2011

The 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2011)

 

http://mass2011.upv.es/

 

17-21 October 2011

Valencia, Spain

 

Paper abstract submission deadline: 20 March 2011

Demo abstract submission deadline: 26 June 2011

10. jan. 2011

CFP: ACM SenSys 2011

The 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2011)

 

http://sensys.acm.org/2011/

 

1-4 November 2011

Seattle, WA

 

Paper Submission Deadline: 8 April 2011

 

CFP: IE'11

The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'11)

 

http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie11

 

25-28 July 2011

Nottingham

United Kingdom

 

Paper Submission deadline: 14 February 2011

 

CFP: SNIGM 2011

The First IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks for Intelligence Gathering and Monitoring (SNIGM 2011)

http://wsn.iet.unipi.it/snigm2011/

 

May 8-11, 2011

Niagara Falls

Ontario, Canada

 

Paper Submission Deadline: February 28, 2011

 

5. jan. 2011

CFP: IEEE SmartGridComm 2011

The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)

http://www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/

Brussels, Belgium

Oct. 17-20, 2011

 

Conference/Symposia paper submission deadline: April 4, 2011