This year keynote address at ACM SenSys conference, held in Toronto, was delivered by Prof. David Culler from UC Berkeley. The focus on the network came with a twist this time, not the low-power wireless network, but an enhanced energy grid. One augmented with carefully orchestrated fluctuating renewable sources, storage and demand management. Wireless sensing and actuation to the rescue?
Download slides pdf here (~50 MB)
The Third International Workshop on Sensor Networks for Intelligence Gathering and Monitoring (SNIGM 2013) in conjunction with ANT 2013.
June 25-28, 2013
Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA
CALL FOR PAPERS
The availability of a large variety of sensor devices, allows wireless sensor networks to be exploited in different fields using different approaches. Applications that rely on continuous, 24×7 monitoring are critical in the application areas such as the following:
* Healthcare
* Emergency Response
* Security
* Energy
* Umanned Vehicles
* Homeland security
* Public safety
* Military
One major challenge faced in these applications is the interaction between the monitoring system and the human subjects who are part of the system itself.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to share and discuss among researchers the different applications and approaches for continuous, 24x7monitoring using wireless sensor networks. We are soliciting papers describing original research on both theoretical and
practical aspects of sensor networks for continuous monitoring. We particularly welcome submissions that present design, implementation and deployment results that take into account the effort to run the systems with low or minimum energy consumption.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers should contain original work and not be published or currently submitted for review elsewhere. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages.
Paper submission will be performed using EasyChair. Please see the Paper Kit section on the ANT 2013 conference website for more details.
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2013 proceedings, which will be published online by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect , and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus and Engineering Village (Ei). This includes EI Compendex. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP.
The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2013 Website. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
register and attend the conference to present the work. Selected outstanding papers presented at the workshops will, after further revision, be considered for publication in journals special issues.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: *December 16, 2012*
Author Notification: January 18, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: February 8, 2013
More info here.
The world is increasingly experiencing a strong need for energy consumption reduction and for efficient use of scarce natural resources. Official studies report that buildings account for the largest portion of World’s energy expenditure and have the fastest growth rate. Information technology such as cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, embedded control, computational modelling, machine learning, and simulation tools play a key role in enabling energy-saving measures for buildings, its surrounding spaces, and other networks such as smart grid and smart water networks that they connect to. We are interested in a life-cycle perspective across design, construction, and operation of buildings, and in energy consumption in both direct (electricity, gas etc.) and indirect (embedded energy in water) forms.
Challenges and Visions Awards
In order to encourage researchers to present truly visionary concepts on the interface between information technology and sustainability, BuildSys 2012 in cooperation with the Computing Community Consortium is offering awards to three regular papers that will be presented in a special Challenges and Visions session: first prize $1000, second prize $750, and third prize $500, to be awarded as honorary prizes.
The workshop will be held on Nov. 6th, collocated with SenSys 2012, in Toronto, Canada.
For more information, specific topics of interest and submission details, please visit BuildSys Website
Important Dates
Paper/Poster submission deadline: Monday, July 30, 2012
Demo submission deadline: Monday, September 3, 2012
Notification of acceptance: Friday, September 14, 2012
Camera Ready Due: Monday, October 1, 2012
Workshop and Demo Session date: November 6, 2012
- smart Dust technologies: highly miniaturized integrated microelectronic or MEMS based solutions, addressing aspects as energy harvesting, wireless communication, and efficient processing.
- opportunistic networking and participatory sensing: solutions showing the potential impact of the use of smartphones, and the integration and sharing of different sensor systems for IoT
- wearable computing and smart textiles: showing integrated solutions for body area networking, their interaction with people and environment.
- real Time Localization Systems: should demonstrate efficient, scalable, and easy to deploy localization technologies.
- Internet integration: showing end-to-end internet based IoT solutions offering scalable and efficient services.
Urban living is commencing to take a central role in the direction humanity evolves. Today, more than 1 in 2 is living in urban environments with related efforts to facilitated viable living conditions becoming tremendous. Urged by these observations, city halls and political decision makers have become very alert, calling for urgent solutions to the growing problems. Quickly advancing ICT technologies may just be the answer, which has triggered global ICT players to have launched various smart city initiatives. This corroborates that suitable technologies are a cornerstone to a sustainable development of a city. This is facilitated by means of smart services that use networked sensors and actuators deployed in the city, allowing the authorities to monitor the environment in real-time, to react immediately and just in time if needed and to establish automated control processes with less or even without human intervention.
These services, on the other hand, rely heavily on appropriate technologies, be they in the field or in the cloud.
This special issue, the first of its kind, thus focuses on ICT technologies, allowing for Smart City rollouts, deployments and growth. Part of the gamut of technologies have been researched and developed for years already, others are new. However, their composition and application in the area of smart cities is unprecedented and accounts for the tremendous upsurge in work in this area, which is mainly attributed to the unique timing between the undeniable need for making cities more efficient, and an enormous set of ICT technologies having become available and affordable. As of today, however, some major issues remain to be tackled, which pertain to technologies, their integration and interaction, architectures, applications, services, privacy, to name a few. In the light of the above, the main purpose of this special issue is threefold:
The third international workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2012) will be held in conjunction with the tenth international conference on pervasive computing (Pervasive 2012) in Newcastle, UK, June 18-22, 2012.
Continuing the successful Web of Things workshop series, this workshop aims at further exploring the use of technologies and principles at the core of the Web to provide methods for a seamless integration of physical devices. In particular, our goal is to foster discussion on systems towards a real-time Web of Things and the discovery, search, and composition of services provided by Web-enabled things. The “Web of Things” workshop solicits contributions in all areas related to the Web of Things, and we invite application designers to think beyond sensor networks and Web applications, and to imagine, design, build, evaluate and share their thoughts and visions on what the future of the Web and networked devices will be.
More on the workshop website
IPSN 2012 – the 11th ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Network (co-located with CPSWEEK 2012) – will host a Ph.D. Forum on sensor network Research. The Forum will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, including work in progress, to the sensor network community and obtain individual feedback from leading researchers in the field. The Forum will be structured as a series of short presentations by the students, followed by individual discussions, feedback, and advise. The student presentations will be interleaved with speeches by leading researchers, who will provide their own perspectives on current and future sensor network research, as well as on how to best purse a Ph.D. in this field. Participating students will also have the opportunity to present a poster during the main conference to leverage further interaction with CPSWEEK attendees.
Current Ph.D. students in the early stages of their career are encouraged to submit a 2-page extended abstract about their dissertation research in sensor networking to be considered for the Ph.D. Forum. The abstract shall also include a one-paragraph bio of the student, along with information on how long he/she has been in Ph.D. school and the expected time until graduation. The student should be the sole author, although contributions of the advisor and
others should be acknowledged. Submissions will be reviewed by the Ph.D. Forum committee to ensure quality, relevance, and potential benefit from attendance to the Forum. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in person to the Forum – to be held on April 15th, 2012 – and to present a poster both at the Forum and at the main conference.
Submissions must be received no later than February 20th, 2012 via e-mail to luca@sics.se, with subject “IPSN12 PhD Forum Submission”. Submissions must be in PDF format, be written in English, of no more than two pages in length (all inclusive), and adhere to the IPSN formatting guidelines
(http://ipsn.acm.org/2012/submission.html). The abstract should include the author’s name, affiliation, and email address. Submissions will be explicitly acknowledged.
Important Dates
Extended abstract submission deadline: February 20th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 29th, 2012
Ph.D. Forum: April 15th, 2012
Keynote for CTIA Conference 2011, Dr. Soon-Shiong outlines the vision for how wireless technologies will transform the entire spectrum of health care, from genomic analysis and prediction to in-home monitoring of chronic illness.
CTIA Keynote 2011 from Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD on Vimeo.
