Cities are heterogeneous, with conditions and challenges ranging from air quality to mobility to health varying widely between neighborhoods. How can cities make better use of existing data, and how can new technologies offer more precise measurements to provide insight into urban challenges? Catlett will discuss the work that Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Chicago are doing in partnership with the City of Chicago and other cities through the Array of Things project, focusing on new opportunities related to embedded systems and integrated data platforms.
Industrial IoT University sessions target embedded and IoT engineers developing, securing, and deploying industrial systems connected to the Internet of Things in the smart factory and automation, smart cities, smart agriculture, and other critical infrastructure markets.
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10:15AM-11:00AM | Addressing IoT Challenges with ARM mbed - Michael Finegan, Director of IoT Business Development, Multi-Tech Systems Inc.
Anyone who’s done work with microcontrollers knows how painful it is just to start writing application code utilizing ARM mbed. Industrial IoT developers can now eliminate most of this work.
Multi-Tech’s Michael Finegan will look at a variety of challenges faced by developers within the Industrial IoT community, and provide insights on how to implement intelligence at the edge through solutions based on ARM mbed. The framework can significantly reduce prototyping and proof of concept development from hours to minutes.
11:00AM-11:45AM | Unlocking ‘Shift Left’ Testing for Industrial IoT Equipment with Intelligent Test Automation - Arthur Hicken, Evangelist, Parasoft
Today’s software teams need more than basic automated testing tools and reports to achieve quality at speed. Software applications are growing exponentially in size and software releases are accelerating, leading to vulnerable applications that are becoming front-page news. For teams to avoid the daily threats of today’s connected world and truly “shift left” testing, intelligent analytics can be leveraged to enable new techniques for understanding risk, readiness, and testing completeness. Using correlated code coverage, change-based testing, and service-based testing, Industrial IoT engineers can be propelled to higher levels of productivity, quality, and security – at lower cost.
11:45AM-12:30PM | Fog Computing: Bringing the Value of the Cloud Closer to the Ground - Chuck Byers, Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems
Fog computing is a hierarchical IoT architecture where some of the control, networking, and storage capabilities of the cloud are moved closer to IoT “things.” This can greatly improve the latency, security, bandwidth, reliability, and cost, of large-scale deployments, especially in critical industrial IoT applications.
This talk presents a brief overview of fog computing, its place in Industrial IoT, and system-level operation. Use cases will be discussed illustrating the value of fog in critical IoT applications such as smart factories, smart cities, and smart transportation. Finally, emerging standards for fog will be considered, including the OpenFog Reference Architecture.
12:30PM-1:30PM | Lunch Recess - Attendees on Their Own
1:30PM-2:30PM | Secure Industrial Device Connectivity with Low-Overhead TLS - Chris Conlon, Engineering Manager, wolfSSL
Industrial engineers adding the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to applications for the first time have a lot to learn before they can accomplish the task, including protocol details, underlying cryptography, best practices, and new API usage.
This Industrial IoT University session will make the learning process much easier by teaching attendees about the TLS protocol, algorithm types, how and where to use keys and X.509 certificates, and optimization tips for resource-constrained devices. To help solidify the topics introduced, the open-source wolfSSL SSL/TLS library will be used as an example, giving attendees a first-hand look at real-world API usage at the TLS level in a live demonstration.
2:30PM-3:15PM | Improving Automation Processes at the Programmable Network Edge - Michelle Marceny, Senior Product Line Manager, FreeWave Technologies, Inc.
As next-generation wireless communications devices enter industrial markets, organizations are glimpsing the tangible benefits of programmable edge platforms. These platforms are equipped with the ability to introduce custom, third-party applications at the edge to reduce costs and increase automation capabilities while enabling reliable data transmission directly to public or private clouds. While “big data” has become ubiquitous in our society, programmability at the edge controls the quality of data.
In this Industrial IoT University session, attendees will learn strategies for developing a network capable of taking data collected at the programmable edge and driving significant cost reductions, process efficiencies, and operational transformations.
3:15PM-3:30PM | Afternoon Break
3:30PM-4:15PM | Maximizing LTE Technology for Industrial Sensor Networks - Kevin Eichhorst, Senior Solutions Architect, Wireless Design Solutions, Digi International
For many Industrial IoT applications, cellular has become the default wireless connection for remotely monitoring sensor data, making it critical for sensor OEMs and solutions providers to know and understand LTE technology roadmaps; this includes when older 2G technology will go offline, what LTE technology is on the horizon, and go-to-market options.
This discussion will give an overview the LTE roadmap, a description of new technologies, and how they specifically address application challenges in industrial sensor markets.
4:15PM-5:00PM | Rapid Prototyping of Internet-Connected Sensors and Actuators with Software Abstraction - Adrian Fernandez, Microcontroller Development Experience Manager, Texas Instruments
Developing software for interfacing sensors and actuators is a common problem for IoT engineers. Many vendors provide sensor drivers, but users have to access multiple sources to attain the necessary source code; interface the driver to a microcontroller; and ensure that it is portable enough to future-proof their software investment.
Software abstraction can help Industrial IoT engineers develop portable sensor and actuator drivers across multiple microcontroller platforms. This Industrial IoT University session provides an overview of common software development tools that support a variety of sensor and actuator driver plugins, a brief demonstration, and code samples of for IoT engineers looking for faster time to market.
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11:00-11:30am | Oxide Gas Sensing Material and MEMS Process - Dr. John Harley, Vice President VP Technical Marketing and Business Development, Micralyne
The need for ubiquitous gas sensing provides an outstanding emerging opportunity for miniaturized devices created with MEMS technology. Key features for metal oxide gas sensing include integrated thin film heaters, thermal isolating membranes, and metal oxide sensing films with catalyst doping. Material choices will be presented along with process flow considerations.
11:45am-12:15pm | Mobile Robots: New Sensor Fusion Package Gives Precise Location From the Shape of its Surroundings - Spencer Krause, Director of Product Management, SKA
This session will demonstrate a Kaarta that allows robots to know precisely where they are combining data from an inertial measurement unit and a laser scanner using a process called SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). The session will show a non-functional unit and some videos of data from functioning units as well as explore how SLAM works in general.
12:30pm-1:00pm | IoT Ecosystem Beyond M2M - Raj Rentala, Director of IoT Solutions, Techwave, Techwave Consulting Inc.
The Session will go through indigenously built hardware and software solution used by industry leading heavy equipment OEMs. The solution is a scalable cloud platform with real-time monitoring and analytics that works with both mechanical and intelligent engines (CANbus / Modbus). This IoT solution has significantly helped OEMs to create new avenues in equipment leasing business and also saved fuel costs for the end customer.
1:15pm-1:45pm | Pressure & Temperature all in one device with DURAsense® - DunAn Sensing
2:00pm-2:30pm | How Environmental Sensors Help Maintain Healthy Homes and Offices While Saving Energy - Dr. Heiko Ulmer, Director of Business Development, Sensirion AG
People spend approximately 90% of their life time indoors and 40% of the total amount of energy is used in buildings especially for heating, cooling, and ventilation. When MEMS sensor technologies are properly applied for indoor air quality monitoring, they are a cost-effective solution to help reduce health risks, improve comfort, and save energy.
2:45pm-3:15pm | Sensor-Driven Healthcare: Innovative Applications Today & Tomorrow - Michael Plishka, President, ZenStorming LLC
The world of medical sensors seems to be transforming the world of medical products on what seems to be a daily basis. Michael Plishka of ZenStorming, will share some of the sensor technologies that he believes are making waves in healthcare. He will also discuss and extend the definition of what ‘sensor technologies’ are and where to find them, opening the door to new business opportunities for medical products and services. Here’s to creative solutions and a better world!
Printed/flexible/stretchable and functional fabric sensors and sensor-based systems possess several important attributes including low-cost, shape conformability and large area coverage that make them ideal for a wide spectrum of applications especially wearables. The presentation is a brief inventory of several of the more interesting examples of these technologies currently in production by commercial organizations or under development at research labs and universities worldwide. The presentation will address market values and growth, barriers to the commercialization of these technologies, critical success factors, opportunities and strategies to create monetization.
The affordability of computing today, progress in nanomaterials and sensing devices, the increasing availability of data, and the emergence of low power wireless networks have made this an opportune time for the emergence of cyberphysical sensor networks for agriculture, water, and the environment. Supratik will discuss three projects at different stages of development: (i) a two year pilot experiment with Gallo wineries and IBM that used satellite imagery data to calculate and then deliver water to vineyards in a pixelized manner via drip irrigation--resulting in improvements in yield and water efficiency; (ii), the development of Thoreau (Thoreau.uchicago.edu)-the first university based fully sub-terranean sensing network for soil that we have built at the University of Chicago, and (iii) a planned pilot for temporal and geospatial mapping of water quality in the Godavari River in Southern India. Through the descriptions of these projects Guha will try to argue that a key bottleneck for ubiquitous use of these technologies lies in the development of cheap, reliable, and scalable sensing packages. He will also describe a few of the key sensing challenges for water and agriculture.
Automotive electronics is undergoing a renaissance. Car manufacturers are looking to add both convenience and safety features to make the drivers life easier, productive, and safe. It is simply not enough to have a comfortable ride, leather seats, keyless entry, power locks and lift gates, these are all pretty nice but they are not enough to attract the new generation of drivers that what to be connected all the time, and value premium safety features. Today’s market has made infotainment (IVI) systems nearly a standard feature and seen increase consumer appetite for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). As a result of these market influences the innovation cycle has accelerated for these applications. In IVI we see the possibilities of new UIs, and Application frameworks, where as in ADAS we see these features laying the foundation for the autonomous vehicles enablement.
This half-day Workshop, will explore IVI, ADAS, and Autonomous Vehicles through different viewpoints and discussing the importance of sense technologies.
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10:10AM-10:45AM | High-Tech Disruption on Automotive Industry - Egil Juliussen, Director of Research & Principal Analyst, Automotive Technology, IHS Markit
Learn where the disruption is happening in:
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10:15-10:45am | Concussion & Athlete Monitoring System Design - Kim Rowe, CEO, Rowebots
The questions of developing the Concussion & Athlete Monitoring System are discussed in the presentation: the reasons to develop the system, critical IoT and Wearable design factors, Security for IoT devices and more.
11:00-11:30am | Rotational and Linear QVLA Sensing - Brad Engstrand, President, Motion Controls
An in depth discussion of QVLA technology including the reference quality emitter, light frequencies used, target definition, surface qualities, dirt, high aspect versus low aspect tubing, lens arrangements and signal conditioning if needed. Strengths and weaknesses versus traditional technologies for linear and rotational sensing. New frontiers in RGB sensing creating a poor man’s spectrometer with our reference quality emitter.
11:45am-12:45pm | The Future of Engineering Education Panel
This panel discussion will provide attendees with an insight into the current status of engineering education and its challenges in training its students for the next part of their professional career, whether in education or in industry. The well-balanced panel of a high level engineering academic administrator, two panelists from the sensors industry and a current engineering student is expected to provide a representative sample of the educational ecosystem dynamic, issues and recommended activities and actions to optimize success for current engineering students and future engineers.
Chair: Roger Grace, Founder & President, Roger Grace Associates
Panelists:
Tamim Halawani Al-Tamimi, Student, Northeastern University
Brian Kinkade, Founder, Positive Impact
Tom Nguyen, CEO, DunAn Sensing
Kelly Zelesnik, Academic Dean, Lorain County Community College
1:15-1:45pm | Sensors in the Brain: The Emergence of Cybernetic Interfaces - Philip Troyk, PhD, CEO/Professor, Sigenics, Inc/Illinois Institute of Technology
Once limited only to science fiction, designing and implementing electronics for sensing and stimulation of the human brain are rapidly becoming science. Creating miniature wireless sensor modules, called neural prostheses, for implantation into the brain requires a combination of unique system/circuit design and packaging techniques. Clinical testing of a broad range of new neural prostheses is on-going, with the most advanced ones using subminiature fully wireless modules. The design and testing of an implantable modular system for restoration of vision to those will blindness will be presented.
The world is home to many harsh environments which that can cause unexpected issues in many engineered systems. This session is designed to give an overview of some of the different challenges faced by robots and other mechatronic devices face while operating in harsh environments. For the purposes of this session, harsh environments include the oceans, the deserts, mines, volcanoes, outerspace, nuclear waste processing and storage facilities, and industrial processing facilities, and many others. We’ll discuss, at a high-level, challenges that occur when designing oceanic robots, solutions to those challenges, and analogous issues and solutions in other environments.
Concussion prevention and treatment have become major concerns for football, rugby, hockey and other team sports. This session will examine options for implementing sensors to assist coaches and medical personnel for early detection and treatment. The design will involve selecting the proper sensor type, implementing proper detection and measurement of impact to prevent serious injury, and implementation of wireless connectivity on playing field to alert coaches and medical personnel.