Sotiris Nikoletseas, Director of the IoT-Lab at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of Patras University
Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley and IMEC
Petar Popovski, Aalborg University and Bremen University
Sam Xun Sun, Director of Standards & Technology Development at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Mirko Presser, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Dr. Eduardo Moreira da Costa, Professor of Innovation at the Federal University of Santa Catarina
Afonso Ferreira, CNRS - IRIT (França)
SOTIRIS NIKOLETSEAS, DIRECTOR OF THE IOT-LAB AT THE COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND INFORMATICS DEPARTMENT OF PATRAS UNIVERSITY
Title: On the shoulders of Tesla: Efficient Algorithms for Wireless Power Transfer in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Abstract:
A Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system consists of chargers which transmit power wirelessly and receivers which harvest the radio frequency energy from the chargers. WPT has evolved to a very active research subject, as well as a topic of rapid technological progress and emerging practical development and commercial applications. However, a solid foundational and algorithmic framework seems still necessary for WPT to achieve its full potential.
In this respect, the talk aims to discuss different characteristic abstract WPT models (scalar, vector, peer to peer) and present key optimization problems (power maximization, coverage, placement, radiation control). Relevant algorithmic design and analysis methods and performance properties (and their trade-offs) are also provided, as well as interesting WPT notions and concepts (such as super-additive and cancellation phenomena in the received power, notions of electromagnetic radiation control in dense, strong WPT fields and energy-aware distributed network formation in large populations of very weak mobile nodes).
BIO:
Sotiris Nikoletseas is a Full Professor and Director of the IoT-Lab at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of Patras University, Greece. Also, a Senior Researcher at the Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" (CTI). He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Geneva, Ottawa and Southern California. His research interests include algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks, innovative Internet of Things (IoT) systems and applications, wireless energy transfer protocols, probabilistic methods and random graphs, algorithmic engineering. He has coauthored over 300 publications in international Journals and refereed Conferences, 3 Books (probabilistic methods, theoretical aspects of sensor networks, wireless power transfer protocols) and several Invited Chapters in Books by major publishers. He has served as the Steering/Program Committee Chair of several Conferences, and as Editor of major Journals (like TCS, IEEE TC and TCC, Elsevier COMNET, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks). He has co-initiated and currently leads international events related to sensor networks (ALGOSENSORS, IEEE DCOSS). He has delivered several invited talks and tutorials. He has coordinated many externally funded R&D Projects related to fundamental aspects of modern networks, mainly by the European Union (EU), as well as large scale national research projects.
JAN RABAEY, UC BERKELEY AND IMEC
Title: The Cognitive Edge
Abstract:
The quasi-exponential growth rate in deployment of edge devices naturally leads to an equivalent growth requirement for communication bandwidth. Making the edge nodes more intelligent themselves could counter this need, and lead to a more “cognitive” edge. This would come with other benefits such as improved response time, robustness, privacy, and security. However, realizing a truly cognitive edge pushes the state-of-the-art in AI, requiring true plasticity, fast on-line and incremental learning and quick adaptation to circumstances and environment, all of this at a fraction of the energy footprint of today’s machine-learning implementations. In this presentation, we will argue how a joint exploitation of innovation in computational paradigms, architecture and technology could lead to a 100x reduction in energy consumption for smart nodes at the edge.
BIO:
Jan holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has been the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. Prof. Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including advanced wireless systems, low power integrated circuits, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. His current interests include the conception of the next generation integrated wireless systems over a broad range of applications, as well as exploring the interaction between the cyber and the biological world. He is the recipient of major awards, amongst which the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement award, and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, and has received honorary doctorates from Lund (Sweden), Antwerp (Belgium) and Tampere (Finland). He has been involved in a broad variety of start-up ventures.
PETAR POPOVSKY, UNIVERSITY AND BREMEN UNIVERSITY
Title: Aspects of Time and Space in Wireless Connectivity beyond 5G and 6G
Abstract:
Wireless connectivity augments human capabilities beyond their natural domain, enabling operation and interaction with objects and subjects placed within an extended space-time domain. This talk will highlight aspects of time and space as these two basic physical notions get intertwined with the digital wireless communication systems beyond-5G/6G. In terms of time, the talk will present the general concept of timing in wireless communication systems and networks and its relation to effective information generation, processing, transmission, and reconstruction at the senders and receivers. Starting from the focus on latency, a specific instance of timing being in the focus of 5G, the talk will present a statistical framework of timing requirements in wireless systems. The timing framework subsumes both latency and Age of Information (AoI) and applied to various communication models, such as consensus or distributed learning/inference. In terms of space, wireless environments evolve towards becoming intelligent and reconfigurable. The talk will discuss the communication modeling aspects of reconfigurable wireless environments. Finally, leveraging the ambiguity of the term “space”, the talk will provide a perspective on non-terrestrial/satellite networks and their role in future wireless connectivity.
BIO:
PetarPopovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received his Dipl.-Ing and M. Sc. degrees in communication engineering from the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), IEEE Fred W. Ellersick prize (2016), IEEE Stephen O. Rice prize (2018), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS. Prof. Popovski was the General Chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless connectivity. He authored the book ``Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide'', published by Wiley in 2020.
SAM XUN SUN, Director of Standards & Technology Development at the Corporation For National Research Initiatives (CNRI)Title: A DOA based framework for IoT security and interoperability
Abstract: Traditional IoT applications generally take an application-centric approach, where management and access of IoT devices are confined within each IoT applications. Over time, this presents a barrier for IoT interoperability and produces many information silos.
Digital Object Architecture (DOA) provides an infrastructure solution for IoT interoperability. The DOA based IoT framework, as described in ITU-T standard Y.4459, will help free information from IoT application boundaries and allow information to be shared freely and securely across all kinds of IoT applications. It also allows discretionary security to be defined and managed per IoT device, instead of subjective to each IoT application.
The DOA based IoT framework defines a IoT device-centric approach that allows separation of the storage, ownership, and management of the IoT devices from individual applications, yet allows each and every application to access such information in a secure and trusted fashion. Information security is no more in the hands of the security measure of, or lack of, any particular application, but in the hands of the owner/manager of IoT device.
Bio: Sam X. Sun is the Director of Standards & Technology Development at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). He was also elected and served as the Chair
of ATSD Steering Committee of ATSD in 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Sun was senior research fellow and handle system architect at CNRI, and lead the design of the handle system protocol. He has participated in many standard activities in Internet security, digital rights management, IoT, and GRID computing. He is the lead author of the handle system protocol specification in IETF RFC3650, RFC3651, and RFC3652. Mr. Sun has led many international research collaborations in applying the Digital Object Architecture and the handle technology for digital library development, healthcare
informatics, and Internet identify management, as well as IoT security and interoperability development. In recent years, Mr. Sun has been assisting Dr. Robert Kahn in establishing the DONA
Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in Switzerland to coordinate the Global Handle Registry (GHR), a key-component of the Digital Object Architecture. He is also being giving consulting in many IoT related standard development, including the development of ITU-T standard on DOA framework for IoT interoperability (ITU-T Y4459) and DOA framework to combat counterfeiting in IoT (ITU-T 4808). Mr. Sun held a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Peking University, China. He also held a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics in the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Mirko PresserBio: Mirko Presser (Ph.D., MSc, MSci) is an Associate Professor and Centre Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Development at Aarhus University, where he researches and teaches in digital technologies, technological business development, innovation and sustainability. He has more than 15 years of experience in research and innovation, where he has worked in industry and academia on large scale international projects within IoT, data analytics and 5G. He is the vice president of the IoT Forum and one of the most influential IoT Experts of Europe.
Dr. Eduardo Moreira da CostaBio: Dr. Eduardo Moreira da Costa is a professor of innovation at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Author of Global E-commerce Strategies for Small Businesses (MIT Press, 2001), published in English, Chinese and Japanese. (2001, 2003). Dr. Costa developed and organized the first MBA on e-government in Brazil and consults regularly for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on Innovation. In the US, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1997-2002. In Brazil, Dr. Costa was Innovation Director of FINEP (2007-2010), where he created innovative funding mechanisms for SMEs, and Director of CNPq (1993-1997), where he launched the first program for software export in the country - SOFTEX – that helped to transform the software industry into a multi-billion dollar business for the country. Dr. Costa got his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southampton in the UK. He was enacted into the country´s Technological and Scientific Order of Merit in 2010. Dr. Costa also sits at the Board of Hoplon, and is a well-known lecturer in Brazil and abroad on the subjects of Innovation, Humane Smart Cities, Entrepreneurship, Venture capital and e-government.
Afonso FerreiraBio: In a career spanning 30 years, Afonso Ferreira has held European leadership roles in institutional policy and research. Thanks to his large knowledge of the Digital Revolution and its widespread impacts, Afonso is advising private and public actors on business development at the nexus of technology, futures, and policy, including Asian and South-American companies, the European Parliament, and the European Commission. In addition to his in-depth knowledge of European Union policies and programmes, like the NIS Directive, GDPR, Horizon 2020 (H2020), CEF, Horizon Europe, and Digital Europe Programme, Dr Ferreira specialises in Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, Innovation Policy, Collective Intelligence, and on the impact of the Digital Transformation on sovereignty and geopolitics.
Afonso is based in Brussels since 2004, including six years seconded to the European Commission working as a policy and programme officer. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and is Directeur de Recherche with the French CNRS, where he's currently the Programme Manager for European Affairs for ICT. He has worked and lived in four countries and speaks fluently English, French, and Portuguese, with good knowledge of Spanish and Italian. He is affiliated with the think-tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since 2017.
Afonso is currently assigned to the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), where he is leading his lab as a partner in one of the pilots for the European Cybersecurity Competence Network. He has over thirty years of experience in the areas of Digital Technologies, having published more than 100 papers in the forefront of scientific research. He has been member of more than 70 Technical Program Committees for international events and is an editorial board member for international scientific journals.
Program:
Programa ELEVATE da Inmarsat:
Alongside the IoT Forum, we also have the Inmarsat event - Programa ELEVATE Inmarsat: helping IoT solution providers grow faster. It will be on October 26, at Centro Brasileiro Britânico (CBB), in São Paulo, at 18:00h.
SENAI Mobile School (Escola Móvel do SENAI):
IoT Forum participants will also have a SENAI Mobile School (Escola Móvel do SENAI) on display,
which can be visited from October 24th to 28th, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm,
in the parking lot next to the INOVA-USP building. In the facilities of this Mobile School,
people will be able to experience, in practice, use cases and applications of technology made possible by connectivity,
mainly 5G. Among the applications presented will be monitoring, activation and maintenance of equipment,
in a safe and remote way. In addition to 5G, the new school will present families of technologies related to digital
communication in the industrial environment, such as Wi-Fi 6, latency testing, transmission capacity and applications
in immersive education, including Metaverse. Some courses that will be offered are already defined, they are:
Unveiling 5G, 5G Industrial Connectivity, Installation, and configuration of private networks, LTE/5G and Network
Sizing.
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BIO:
Sotiris Nikoletseas is a Full Professor and Director of the IoT-Lab at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of Patras University, Greece. Also, a Senior Researcher at the Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" (CTI). He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Geneva, Ottawa and Southern California. His research interests include algorithmic aspects of wireless sensor networks, innovative Internet of Things (IoT) systems and applications, wireless energy transfer protocols, probabilistic methods and random graphs, algorithmic engineering. He has coauthored over 300 publications in international Journals and refereed Conferences, 3 Books (probabilistic methods, theoretical aspects of sensor networks, wireless power transfer protocols) and several Invited Chapters in Books by major publishers. He has served as the Steering/Program Committee Chair of several Conferences, and as Editor of major Journals (like TCS, IEEE TC and TCC, Elsevier COMNET, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks). He has co-initiated and currently leads international events related to sensor networks (ALGOSENSORS, IEEE DCOSS). He has delivered several invited talks and tutorials. He has coordinated many externally funded R&D Projects related to fundamental aspects of modern networks, mainly by the European Union (EU), as well as large scale national research projects.
BIO:
Jan holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and the Berkeley Ubiquitous SwarmLab, and has been the Electrical Engineering Division Chair at Berkeley twice. Prof. Rabaey has made high-impact contributions to a number of fields, including advanced wireless systems, low power integrated circuits, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. His current interests include the conception of the next generation integrated wireless systems over a broad range of applications, as well as exploring the interaction between the cyber and the biological world. He is the recipient of major awards, amongst which the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Lifetime Achievement award, and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium, and has received honorary doctorates from Lund (Sweden), Antwerp (Belgium) and Tampere (Finland). He has been involved in a broad variety of start-up ventures.
BIO:
PetarPopovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received his Dipl.-Ing and M. Sc. degrees in communication engineering from the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), IEEE Fred W. Ellersick prize (2016), IEEE Stephen O. Rice prize (2018), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS. Prof. Popovski was the General Chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless connectivity. He authored the book ``Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide'', published by Wiley in 2020.
Bio: Sam X. Sun is the Director of Standards & Technology Development at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). He was also elected and served as the Chair
of ATSD Steering Committee of ATSD in 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Sun was senior research fellow and handle system architect at CNRI, and lead the design of the handle system protocol. He has participated in many standard activities in Internet security, digital rights management, IoT, and GRID computing. He is the lead author of the handle system protocol specification in IETF RFC3650, RFC3651, and RFC3652. Mr. Sun has led many international research collaborations in applying the Digital Object Architecture and the handle technology for digital library development, healthcare
informatics, and Internet identify management, as well as IoT security and interoperability development. In recent years, Mr. Sun has been assisting Dr. Robert Kahn in establishing the DONA
Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in Switzerland to coordinate the Global Handle Registry (GHR), a key-component of the Digital Object Architecture. He is also being giving consulting in many IoT related standard development, including the development of ITU-T standard on DOA framework for IoT interoperability (ITU-T Y4459) and DOA framework to combat counterfeiting in IoT (ITU-T 4808). Mr. Sun held a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Peking University, China. He also held a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics in the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Bio: Mirko Presser (Ph.D., MSc, MSci) is an Associate Professor and Centre Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Development at Aarhus University, where he researches and teaches in digital technologies, technological business development, innovation and sustainability. He has more than 15 years of experience in research and innovation, where he has worked in industry and academia on large scale international projects within IoT, data analytics and 5G. He is the vice president of the IoT Forum and one of the most influential IoT Experts of Europe.
Bio: Dr. Eduardo Moreira da Costa is a professor of innovation at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Author of Global E-commerce Strategies for Small Businesses (MIT Press, 2001), published in English, Chinese and Japanese. (2001, 2003). Dr. Costa developed and organized the first MBA on e-government in Brazil and consults regularly for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on Innovation. In the US, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1997-2002. In Brazil, Dr. Costa was Innovation Director of FINEP (2007-2010), where he created innovative funding mechanisms for SMEs, and Director of CNPq (1993-1997), where he launched the first program for software export in the country - SOFTEX – that helped to transform the software industry into a multi-billion dollar business for the country. Dr. Costa got his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southampton in the UK. He was enacted into the country´s Technological and Scientific Order of Merit in 2010. Dr. Costa also sits at the Board of Hoplon, and is a well-known lecturer in Brazil and abroad on the subjects of Innovation, Humane Smart Cities, Entrepreneurship, Venture capital and e-government.
Bio: In a career spanning 30 years, Afonso Ferreira has held European leadership roles in institutional policy and research. Thanks to his large knowledge of the Digital Revolution and its widespread impacts, Afonso is advising private and public actors on business development at the nexus of technology, futures, and policy, including Asian and South-American companies, the European Parliament, and the European Commission. In addition to his in-depth knowledge of European Union policies and programmes, like the NIS Directive, GDPR, Horizon 2020 (H2020), CEF, Horizon Europe, and Digital Europe Programme, Dr Ferreira specialises in Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Foresight, Innovation Policy, Collective Intelligence, and on the impact of the Digital Transformation on sovereignty and geopolitics.
Afonso is based in Brussels since 2004, including six years seconded to the European Commission working as a policy and programme officer. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and is Directeur de Recherche with the French CNRS, where he's currently the Programme Manager for European Affairs for ICT. He has worked and lived in four countries and speaks fluently English, French, and Portuguese, with good knowledge of Spanish and Italian. He is affiliated with the think-tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since 2017.
Afonso is currently assigned to the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), where he is leading his lab as a partner in one of the pilots for the European Cybersecurity Competence Network. He has over thirty years of experience in the areas of Digital Technologies, having published more than 100 papers in the forefront of scientific research. He has been member of more than 70 Technical Program Committees for international events and is an editorial board member for international scientific journals.
