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IEEE Tutorial: Recent Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks

TechFocus2010This presentation covers various characteristics of a wireless sensor network in monitoring an unattended area. Results of how wireless sensor network topologies can be effectively used for physically accessible areas are presented. Minimizing packet traffic by collecting data using a mobile Base Station is discussed, along with energy consumption. An innovative technique of distributing keys for shared secret key based communications is described, and various characteristics including resiliency, and monitoring a battle-field using wireless sensor networks are outlined. Analytical model is introduced and compared with simulation results. The need for layered sensing in secured communications is investigated.

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First IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services

Want to go to San Francisco? There is a new call for papers on a corresponding IoT conference. Topics of interest include:

  • System architectures for the IoT/M2M
  • Communication protocols for the IoT/M2M
  • Service platforms for the IoT/M2M
  • Enabling technologies and standards for the IoT/M2M
  • Mobility management
  • Context awareness
  • Sustainable design
  • Location-based services and geographic information systems
  • Experimental prototypes and large-scale testbed infrastructures
  • Performance evaluation of IoT/M2M solutions
  • Convergence with the Internet of Services
  • Applications, including: eHealth/mHealth; Smart Grid/Smart Metering; connected consumer; fleet management; surveillance; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Smart House/Neighborhood/City
  • Business development and processes
  • Industrial use cases showing gaps to be filled by future research

IMPORTANT DATES
Manuscripts Due:           February 17, 2012.
Acceptance Notification:      April  6, 2012.
Camera-ready Submission: 2nd half April 2012.

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International Cooperation Unites IEEE and CCSA for New “Internet of Things” Workshop

IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) today announced it is collaborating with the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) on a new “Internet of Things” (IoT) standards workshop. Scheduled for June 5, 2012 at the China World Hotel in Beijing, China, the CCSA/IEEE-SA Internet of Things Standards Workshop, co-hosted by IEEE-SA and CCSA, brings together leading global industry experts to begin exploring how to achieve a common IoT architecture.

“The IoT offers vast untapped potential for innovation, but there’s an inherent need for a common, extensible architecture to take full advantage of those opportunities,” said Mary Lynne Nielsen, director of corporate programs, IEEE-SA. “Standardizing on a common architecture will help ensure interoperability, compatibility, and reliability, enabling the IoT to truly become a change agent for continued technology advancement. By facilitating an open dialog among key stakeholders, this workshop will move the process forward, putting us that much closer to making the IoT a reality.”

Representing the next iteration of the Internet where objects and systems will be connected, communicating and exchanging data without human intervention, the IoT spans a diverse array of applications. Smart Grid, home and industrial automation, transportation, robotics, and automotive are among the many settings ideally suited to IoT applications. The half-day workshop will address these possible applications, as well as a broad variety of topics such as current standards work and convergent networks and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The agenda features a cross-section of speakers and panelists from CCSA and IEEE-SA, as well as the transportation and coal mining sectors, IT, integrated service providers, telecom operators, institutes, and other leading global organizations and enterprises such as IBM, Siemens, and STMicroelectronics.

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IEEE Special issue on "Sensor Network Applications"

It’s now out! After more than 18 months in planning, writing, and editing, the Special Issue on “Sensor Network Applications” of the Proceedings of the IEEE is out and available on IEEExplore. There are eleven articles on the current state of the art in sensor network research, including articles on technologies that are enabling sensor networks, and articles on the applications of sensor networks.
We hope you find it a good read!
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Second International Conference on CPS

The IEEE/ACM Second International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) will be held in conjunction with CPS Week, on April 11-14, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED).

Cyber-physical systems are systems with a tight coupling of the cyber aspects of computing and communications with the physical aspects of dynamics and engineering that must abide by the laws of physics.  The objective of this conference is to be a primary forum for reporting state-of-the-art advances and innovations in theoretical principles, tools, applications, systems infrastructure, and testbeds for cyber-physical systems.

Contributions should emphasize the cross-cutting, system-wide themes. Sectors of applicability include, but not be limited to, transportation  (automotive, aerospace, marine, rail), SCADA systems (electricity generation including smart grids and the like, other utilities), smart physical infrastructure (smart bridges, buildings and highways), energy efficiency (energy-aware buildings), environmental monitoring, defense systems, intelligent medical devices, tele-operations and robotics.

Submissions must be a maximum of 10 pages, in 2-column format, and use font sizes of no less than 10 pt.  Instructions for submission can be found at the conference site.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Theoretical foundations of CPS
- Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis Techniques
- Architectures for Cyber-Physical Systems
- Building blocks for Cyber-Physical Systems
- Systems Abstractions, Services and OS Support
- Evaluation approaches and metrics
- Novel CPS applications
- Detailed Case Studies

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline:        November 7, 2010
Acceptance Decisions:       January 5, 2010
Final Manuscript:           January 28, 2011

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Despite Stimulus Money, Most U.S. Bridges Might Stay Dumb

From IEEE Spectrum online:

Sensors are starting to prove themselves in the biggest, most complex bridges, but the technology isn’t ready for the hundreds of thousands of smaller ones

The 2.9-kilometer Rion-Antirion Bridge in Greece, with its 300 sensors, is a testament to how smart a piece of infrastructure can be. It routinely tells operators when an earthquake, frequent in those parts, or high winds warrant shutting down traffic.

“The bridge tolls are meant to collect thousands of euros per day,” says Alexandre Chaperon, an engineer at the company that designed the system, Advitam, in Vienna, Va. “Without the monitoring system, the bridge would be closed after every earthquake, more than three days in some cases, instead of 5 minutes.”

Dozens of the largest and most complex bridges in the world are already studded with strain and displacement gauges, three-dimensional accelerometers, tiltmeters, temperature sensors, and other instruments. They are wired to central data-acquisition units—though some newer bridges have wireless systems—which collect and analyze the information and relay it to engineers, in hopes of catching signs of distress before human inspectors could. With the United States injecting US $27.5 billion into revamping the country’s roadways and bridges as part of an $800 billion economic stimulus effort, it might seem like a perfect opportunity to add smarts to more bridges.

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IEEE SENSORS 2009

The 8th IEEE Sensor Conference will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, 25-28 October 2009.

Among the keynote presentations:

Smart Configurable Wireless Sensors and Actuators for Industrial Monitoring and Control by Dr. Asad M. Madni (USA)  Executive Managing Director & CTO of Crocker Capital and Former President & Chief Operating Office of BEI Technologies

Topics covered and more here

Important Dates
Abstract Submission 31 March 2009
Tutorial Submission 30 April 2009
Author Notification 22 May 2009
Extended Papers Due 14 July 2009

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