Visionair seminarie: De toekomst van autonome sensornetwerken
Dankzij de recente ontwikkelingen in chipminiaturisatie, draadloze communicatie, energie- en sensortechnologieën, wordt de slimme omgeving stilaan een realiteit. Draadloze sensornetwerken zijn een 'natuurlijke' uitbreiding van de succesvolste micro-elektronicaproducten van vandaag: PC en GSM. Zij laten ons toe om intelligentie in te bouwen in allerlei producten en industriële processen. Door hun verregaande autonomie op het vlak van energieverbruik en hun draadloze communicatie met een netwerkinfrastructuur kan men sensornetwerken aanwenden om machineparken veiliger en efficienter te laten werken, kan men het milieu monitoren en sneller en gerichter ingrijpen, kan het comfort van een patient gevoelig worden verbeterd,...
De realisatie van autonome sensornetwerken is gebaseerd op de aanwending van een aantal kerntechnologieën die hun autonomie, interactie en intelligentie verzekeren. Het visionair seminarie zal deze technologieën belichten en een blik werpen op de toepassingsdomeinen waarvoor ze zullen ingezet kunnen worden.
Programma
- 17u00: Ontvangst deelnemers
- 17u30: Welkom en inleiding: Draadloze autonome microsystemen: de nieuwe 'driver' - Prof. Chris van Hoof (Departementshoofd geïntegreerde systemen - IMEC)
- 17u45: 'Infrastructure as the achilles heel of wireless sensor networks' - Prof. Jan M. Rabaey (Scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center - University of California - Berkeley, USA)
- 18u30: pauze met broodjes
- 19u00: Human++: emerging technology for body area networks- Dr.Bert Gyselinckx (Programmadirecteur HUMAN++ - IMEC)
- 19u25: An industrial perspective on miniature wireless sensor devices: how to find the sweet spot - Dr. Martin Ouwerkerk (Leader Small Autonomous Network Devices project - Principal Scientist - Philips Research)
- 19u55: De knopen van het netwerk: autonome intelligente sensorsystemen - Dr. Bram De Muer (General Manager - ICsense)
- 20u20: Vraag en antwoord
- 20u30: Afsluiting met een hapje/tapje
Inschrijvingen, praktische aspecten en deelnamevoorwaarden
Datum: dinsdag 13 juni 2006 (17u00-20u30)
Locatie: IMEC Auditorium, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven
De lezingen gaan door in het Nederlands met uitzondering van Prof.Rabaey (Engels).
Short Bio: Jan M. Rabaey, Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor
Scientific Co-Director Berkeley Wireless Research Center
Director Gigascale Research Center
EECS Dept, University of California at Berkeley
Short Abstract of presentation of Prof.Rabaey:
In the past decade, the concept of autonomous wireless sensor networks has become one of the poster Children in the world of information technology. The potentials of the technology are quite stellar, and cover a wide area of applications, ranging from intelligent homes, energy management, environmental monitoring, industrial automation, infrastructure management and healthcare (amongst others). Intensive research both in academia, industrial research labs, and fledgling start-ups has gone a long way in developing the core pillars needed to turn concepts into reality: low power wireless sensor nodes, middleware, ad-hoc networking stacks, etc.
Yet, the common perception remains that this technology is not ready to enter the main stage. The big question is what is needed to really make it happen.
In this presentation, we will argue that the missing piece is infrastructure (in a strange twist of logic for this ultimately ad-hoc and anarchistic technology). To make an autonomous sensor network to be deployable, configurable, ,manageable, and ultimately to get the information in and out, a clear view on a supporting infrastructure technology is needed. This may be quite similar to the way the internet started as a way of connecting a number of computers in a rather ad-hoc fashion together, yet only really started to shine when the mechanisms to do so seamlessly disappeared from the users view. There is no doubt in my mind that when these infrastructure hurdles are scaled, the future of wireless sensor networks will be very bright indeed.
De realisatie van autonome sensornetwerken is gebaseerd op de aanwending van een aantal kerntechnologieën die hun autonomie, interactie en intelligentie verzekeren. Het visionair seminarie zal deze technologieën belichten en een blik werpen op de toepassingsdomeinen waarvoor ze zullen ingezet kunnen worden.
Programma
- 17u00: Ontvangst deelnemers
- 17u30: Welkom en inleiding: Draadloze autonome microsystemen: de nieuwe 'driver' - Prof. Chris van Hoof (Departementshoofd geïntegreerde systemen - IMEC)
- 17u45: 'Infrastructure as the achilles heel of wireless sensor networks' - Prof. Jan M. Rabaey (Scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center - University of California - Berkeley, USA)
- 18u30: pauze met broodjes
- 19u00: Human++: emerging technology for body area networks- Dr.Bert Gyselinckx (Programmadirecteur HUMAN++ - IMEC)
- 19u25: An industrial perspective on miniature wireless sensor devices: how to find the sweet spot - Dr. Martin Ouwerkerk (Leader Small Autonomous Network Devices project - Principal Scientist - Philips Research)
- 19u55: De knopen van het netwerk: autonome intelligente sensorsystemen - Dr. Bram De Muer (General Manager - ICsense)
- 20u20: Vraag en antwoord
- 20u30: Afsluiting met een hapje/tapje
Inschrijvingen, praktische aspecten en deelnamevoorwaarden
Datum: dinsdag 13 juni 2006 (17u00-20u30)
Locatie: IMEC Auditorium, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven
De lezingen gaan door in het Nederlands met uitzondering van Prof.Rabaey (Engels).
Short Bio: Jan M. Rabaey, Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor
Scientific Co-Director Berkeley Wireless Research Center
Director Gigascale Research Center
EECS Dept, University of California at Berkeley
Short Abstract of presentation of Prof.Rabaey:
In the past decade, the concept of autonomous wireless sensor networks has become one of the poster Children in the world of information technology. The potentials of the technology are quite stellar, and cover a wide area of applications, ranging from intelligent homes, energy management, environmental monitoring, industrial automation, infrastructure management and healthcare (amongst others). Intensive research both in academia, industrial research labs, and fledgling start-ups has gone a long way in developing the core pillars needed to turn concepts into reality: low power wireless sensor nodes, middleware, ad-hoc networking stacks, etc.
Yet, the common perception remains that this technology is not ready to enter the main stage. The big question is what is needed to really make it happen.
In this presentation, we will argue that the missing piece is infrastructure (in a strange twist of logic for this ultimately ad-hoc and anarchistic technology). To make an autonomous sensor network to be deployable, configurable, ,manageable, and ultimately to get the information in and out, a clear view on a supporting infrastructure technology is needed. This may be quite similar to the way the internet started as a way of connecting a number of computers in a rather ad-hoc fashion together, yet only really started to shine when the mechanisms to do so seamlessly disappeared from the users view. There is no doubt in my mind that when these infrastructure hurdles are scaled, the future of wireless sensor networks will be very bright indeed.
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