WISIG - Wireless Sensing Demonstrator Showcase 2010

28 Sept 2010 - NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Published: 02 August, 2010

Call for Participation

SCOPE

Early prototyping has proven to be an essential methodology to evaluate wireless sensing systems. Furthermore, it offers an excellent way to assess the applicability of the technology against real user requirements and to promote its market adoption. Building on the last two years’ successful events, the Wireless Sensing Interest subGroup (WiSIG) of the Electronics, Sensors, Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network (ESP KTN) is organising a Demonstrator Showcase to provide an opportunity for industry and academia to display technology, platforms, and realistic applications of wireless sensing. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness of the current state of the art and encourage future collaborations among the exhibitors and attendees.

TOPICS

We are inviting innovative demonstrations from industry and academia. We welcome both wireless sensing systems developed as ‘instruments to enable scientific investigation’ and also ‘as solutions to known problems’. Demonstrators need to be end-to-end systems with achievements beyond the state of the art at one or more of the following levels: physical level, sensing level, energy harvesting, power management, data fusion, middleware, communications, information extraction, and user interfaces.

Alternatively, the novelty may lie in the application itself, the business model, the integration of technologies (e.g. interfacing mobile broadband infrastructure) and deployment issues (e.g. encapsulation, environmental regulations). We are particularly encouraging demonstrators in the areas of body sensor networks, environmental monitoring, industrial monitoring and control, security and surveillance as well as assisted living.

AGENDA

10.30-10.40 - Welcome and Overview of the Showcase Dr Costis Kompis, ESP KTN

10.40-11.25 - Keynote Lecture: WSNs - Designing for deployment Dr James Brusey, Coventry
University

10.45-11.00 - Wireless Corrosion and Erosion Monitoring of Industrial Assets with the Corian
System QinetiQ Plc

11.00-11.15 - Low Power Proximity Network of Sensors (LPPNS) for Space Applications SEA Ltd

11.15-11.30 - Explosion Metrology: Battery-free, wireless sampling of data from the target of an
explosion Instrumentel Ltd

11.30-11.45 - Passive Single chip wireless Pressure Sensor Glasgow University

11.45-12.00 - Long Range Multiprotocol Wireless Sensor Networks Libelium

12.00-12.15 - Designing Robust Gateway Nodes for Wireless Sensor Networks MAC Ltd

12.15-14.30 - Demonstrations and Voting by Exhibition Delegates.

14.30-16.40 - Announcement of Award Phil Cooper, ESP KTN

PROCEEDINGS

All accepted demonstrators will feature in the event’s proceedings.

AWARD

The demo proposals will be reviewed by a committee and the delegates of the Sensing Technology 2010 Exhibition. The ‘Best Demo Award’ will be awarded based on both the technical and innovation contributions.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Mike Allen, Singapore-MIT Alliance

Athanassios Boulis, NICTA

Michael Collett, National Physical Laboratory

John Gardiner, Wireless CIC

Elena Gaura, Coventry University

Roger Hazelden, TRW Conekt

Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge

Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Vinayak Naik, IIIT-Delhi

Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Technical University of Crete

George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London

Werner Schiffers, Rolls Royce

Wensi Wang, Tyndall National Institute

Marco Zennaro, ICTP and WSNblog.com

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: Sept 9, 2010 - Closed

Acceptance notification: Sept 10, 2010

Camera-ready deadline: Sept 20, 2010

Demo Registration deadline: Sept 15, 2010

Showcase date: Sept 28, 2010

DEMO SUBMISSION INFO

Proposers of demonstrators should consult the Author's Kit, which contains a template and details about the selection criteria, the exhibition stand and applicable fees. If you have any questions please contact Shelley Sharma.

VENUE AND LOCATION

The Wireless Sensing Demonstrator Showcase 2010 will take place be hosted by the Sensing Technology 2010 Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham UK on Tuesday 28th September. Travel information can be found here.

REGISTRATION

Attendance of Sensing Technology Exhibition and the Wireless Sensing Showcase 2010 event is free of charge. To register www.sensingtechnology.co.uk

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