Sensors Midwest 2017

Start your days off the right away with breakfastand coffee! This is a perfect way to reconnect with colleagues, mingle with speakers, meet industry press, and energize for the day ahead.

The Internet of Things is a complex market. To address the challenges of developing new products and bringing them to market, developers in that space need access to capabilities beyond their own areas of expertise. That need is best met through an “ecosystem” of specialized partners. NimbeLink entered the IoT market as a component company but has developed an ecosystem, allowing the company to provide products, services, and expertise to meet the range of needs of customers entering the IoT market. This keynote will describe the process of how NimbeLink evolved from a components company into a solutions company. 

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.

Hosted by the Embedded Computing Design, this full-day workshop will teach design engineers the latest techniques for designing industrial systems that not only communicate with the outside world, but can make intelligent decisions based on the analytics derived from those systems.

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.

Agenda:

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.

Moderated by Bunny Ellerin, Director Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Management Program at Columbia Business School, attendees will learn how sensors are driving development and innovation through case studies and applications from some of the world's leading experts during this half-day Workshop.

Agenda

10:15AM-10:20AM | Opening Remarks - Bunny Ellerin, Director, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program, Columbia Business School

10:20AM-11:05AM | Soft Wearable Biosensors for Personalized Medicine - Roozbeh Ghaffari, Senior Director of Research and Innovation, Northwestern Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics
Unusual classes of electronics and electrochemical sensors enabled by recent advances in materials science and mechanics have been designed with physical properties that approach the mechanical properties of human skin. These systems are highly conformal and wearable by virtue of their soft mechanics compared to conventional packaged electronics and sensors. In this talk, I present an overview of recent advances in novel materials, mechanics and designs for emerging classes of fully-integrated epidermal electronics. These devices incorporate microfluidics and microfabricated arrays of sensors configured in ultrathin, stretchable formats for monitoring of hydration and physiology. Quantitative analyses of strain distributions and circuit performances under mechanical stress highlight the utility of these systems in the clinical and home environments. I will conclude with representative examples of these skin-based epidermal devices in clinical studies. 

11:10AM-11:40AM | Biomedical Optical Sensing to Improve Lung Cancer Screening and Minimally Invasive Surgeries - Hari Subramanian, Chief Technology Officer, Nanocytomics
This presentation will focus on two specific applications of biomedical optical sensors: (i) to improve lung cancer screening and (ii) to improve minimally invasive surgeries. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. and the survival rate dramatically depends on the stage at which it is diagnosed. We have utilized biomedical optics to develop an office based, low cost, minimally intrusive and accurate screening test for lung cancer among current/past smokers. We have developed a robust operating protocol and a high throughput microscope to process these samples in a clinically acceptable time. Both the instrument and the protocol have been validated using a blinded study design and achieved a specificity and sensitivity of 83% and 81% respectively for early stage (Stage I) lung cancers. Our long- term vision is that the optical sensing of buccal cells may become a frontline risk stratification tool to personalize lung cancer screening that can be performed by a primary care physician (PCP) as part of an annual exam of current or former smokers. The lack of tactile and visual feedback during minimally invasive surgery increases the complexity of already difficult procedures. These problems can lead to inadvertent damage to blood vessels hidden beneath tissue causing serious health risks to patients and a heavy unreimbursable financial burden to hospitals. Existing intraoperative imaging technologies either are too expensive or too cumbersome to be included into existing surgical devices. We have developed a low-cost, contrast agent-free, miniaturized smart dissector, with a biomedical optical sensor that is able to localize, track and quantify a blood vessel wrapped around any given tissue in real time with a high resolution. The system is able to find blood vessels of size 2-8mm with a resolution of 0.5mm and has been successfully validated in both ex vivo tissue specimens and in vivo pig models. 

11:40AM-12:00PM | Networking Break

12:00PM-12:30PM | Entrepreneurs Showcase
Learn about some of the most exciting medical startups in the sensors industry. During the first part of the session, you’ll hear from three entrepreneurs who are integrating sensors into medical applications to improve accuracy, decrease operator error and ultimately improve patient outcomes. 
Yashar Ganjeh, Co-Founder & Vice President, IntuiTap Medical
Jonathan Gunn, CEO, Briteseed

Briteseed
Briteseed is commercializing a new class of smart surgical tools that have artificial-vision assistance to help surgeons quickly identify landmarks and safely navigate vital structures.These multifunctional tools have the benefit of cautery, dissection, and optical tissue sensing in a single package. Formed in 2013, Briteseed has developed its first surgical tool, the Smart Grasper, that integrates blood vessel-detection technology into a mechanical grasper. By utilizing optical spectroscopy in the jaws of the tool, surgeons can identify the presence and diameter of blood vessels. This information is displayed on the video monitors currently used in the operating room, with no interruption in surgeon workflow.

IntuiTap Medical
IntuiTap is the world’s first device designed for spinal punctures that integrates imaging of the spine with needle guidance and analytics to help physicians get where they need to go on the first try.Using its proprietary imaging technology, IntuiTap enhances palpitation and can detect the underlying vertebrae even through multiple layers of soft tissue. A real-time image of the underlying bones is constructed and displayed conveniently on the LCD screen attached to the handheld device. The company’s predictive algorithm projects onto the screen exactly where the needle will end up if inserted at that location, allowing the physician to visualize precisely where they need to insert the needle for optimal success. A digital pressure sensor incorporated into the device provides confirmation that the physician is in the right place, and accurately measures the opening pressure, eliminating the need for a cumbersome and inaccurate manometer. 

12:30PM-1:00PM | Panel Discussion on Innovating and Entrepreneurship
During the second half, the entrepreneurs will come together on a panel to discuss the different stages of the startup process, from research and development to funding to commercialization. With personal experiences spanning across these different stages, the Panel aims to provide great insight into how the sensors industry is transforming with new startups being born every day. 
Yashar Ganjeh, Co-Founder & Vice President, IntuiTap Medical
Jonathan Gunn, CEO, Briteseed

1:00PM-1:45PM | STRIVE Center: Bridging Laboratory Research & Real World Applications - Ryan McKindles, Research Director, STRIVE Center, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Sensorimotor Technology Realization in Immersive Virtual Environments (STRIVE) Center. An approximately 4,000 ft2 facility, the STRIVE Center features a High-end Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) system, one of three in the world. The CAREN enables the assessment of a person’s cognitive and physiological performance as they interact with a fully immersive virtual environment. This world-class center provides a nexus for the clinical, academic, and government communities to collaborate on next generation clinical, operational, technology development, and advanced training research.

Agenda:

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!

Agenda:

10:15-10:45am  |  The Survey Says: A Review of Survey Results on the IoT and Analytics Market - David Houghton, Strategist, James Brehm & Associates

11:00-11:30am  |  Building an Ecosystem for IoT Success
Moderator: David Houghton, Strategist, James Brehm & Associates
Speakers:
Manuel Botija, IoT Product Marketing, Sequans
Jeff Liebl, President, IoT Group, Anaren
Noel Mythen, Sales Manager, Central N. America, Taoglas

1:00-1:30pm  |  Intelligence in the Cloud, a Case Study - Jeff Liebl, President, IoT Group, Anaren

2:00-2:30pm  |  Is Cellular Right for Your IoT Applictions?
Moderator: David Houghton, Strategist, James Brehm & Associates
Speakers: 
Manuel Botija, IoT Product Marketing, Sequans
Steve Garrett, Director of Sales Engineering, OptConnect
Thaddeus Gulden, Field Applications Engineer, Taoglas
Scott Schwalbe, CEO, NimbeLink

3:00-3:30pm  |  Why Projects Fail - An Inquest Panel of IoT
Moderator: David Houghton, Strategist, James Brehm & Associates
Speakers:
Manuel Botija, IoT Product Marketing, Sequans
Thaddeus Gulden, Field Applications Engineer, Taoglas
Richard LaBorde, Director of Business Development, Anaren
Mike Tackaberry, VP Sales, NimbeLink

4:00-4:30pm  |  What We Learned from Managing 80,000 Cellular Devices - Steve Garrett, Director of Sales Engineering, OptConnect

This presentation focuses on the technology that allows material analysis to be done out in the field, rather than in a lab. Traditionally, material analysis was done with bench-top spectrometers, however there is now unique and proprietary technology that has put discrete optical benches on silicon die. With the main optical components on a MEMS die, a spectrometer is now highly integrated, scalable, and reliable. What was once branded a bench-top device is now a portable spectral sensor enabling new applications for material analysis.

The conversion of a simple sensor is typically just that, simple. The problem is with more complex sensors, particularly sensor that require stimulus. This usually means a software based approach to the conversion that drives up MIPs and complexity. Fortunately, Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs) provide an effective alternative. CIPs allow the creation of dedicated conversion engines that operate without code overhead.

This presentation will demonstrate several autonomous sensing solutions. These examples include position sensing, ultrasonic ranging and proximity, capacitive sensing and synchronized data acquisition. Each system will be described in detail with implementation and code overhead highlighted.

As advanced products move into portable, battery-operated devices, leading manufacturers are looking to Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) as today's leading magnetic sensor technology.  Competing with yesterday's solutions such as Hall Effect and Reed Sensors, TMR satisfies designers of emerging technologies requiring the lowest power consumption coupled with the highest sensitivity while taking up very little board space.   Mr. BouRamia will extrapolate on TMR technology mechanisms, capabilities, and products.  The audience will share in an interactive demonstration of TMR.   Attendee Benefits include 1) Understanding TMR technology; 2) Comprehending how TMR can advance a next-generation device; 3) Actual hands-on experience of TMR technology.

This topic cover two key trends in managing power of mostly asleep ultra low power optoelectronic devices. More devices, displays, and sensors are being designed to run on static batteries or alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power. So the need for ultra efficient devices is becoming a more critical aspect of technology development. Battery powered devices don't only have to be small but they have operate in ultra low power consumption mode, otherwise batteries will be drained quickly.

This session will describe real-world, case studies using Industrial Internet of Things technologies in factories and foundries to reduce energy costs and improve manufacturing efficiencies by identifying no-cost and low-cost improvements. Motivated by gas and electric utility company incentive programs, analysis of IIoT measurements and real-time alerts for out-of-normal conditions have revealed natural gas and electricity savings opportunities with return on investment (ROI) periods ranging from a few weeks to a few months. In these case studies, energy savings were always accompanied by productivity improvements, tighter process control, better management oversight, and other production cost reductions. Tables, graphs and charts with results from IIoT measurements will be included.

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.

In this session, Rick Li will present a case study jointly with AEIDOGroup for 300,000 older building safety monitoring in southern China built in the 1970s and 1980s on sand foundation, using LoRa based narrow band wireless tilt and vibration sensors.

The Industrial wireless instrumentation is being applied to wide variety of applications. Plant owners require a secure wireless sensor network with large scalability, fast updates with deterministic latency, and high reliability for monitoring, control and safety applications. We will introduce the Dependable plant wide wireless network base on the IEC 62734 (ISA100.11a) standard which delivers a fully redundant, large scalability, deterministic latency to support mission critical applications.  The benefits of attendees are to learn (1) requirements and use cases for industrial wireless, (2) ISA100.11a technologies and solutions, and (3) success story for oil and gas industry using this technology.

The optical coherence tomography (OCT) was initially developed for medical applications. However, in the last decade the high resolution, OCT has found applications in many other fields including semiconductor metrology. At first, real space OCT system was applied, but now the frequency domain systems find their way in many industrial applications. One of the most recently invented systems is the Frequency Space Moire gauge which allows to measure arbitrary large distances with undiminished speed and accuracy. Attendees will learn the newest developments of OCT industrial metrology, and discuss practical design and manufacturing challenges of such sensors.

Get inspired by female engineers involved in sensors and raise awareness of the contributions they make to the sensors community!

[Note: the WISE Program is being offered to attendees free of charge! Simply RSVP during the registration process to sign up.]

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM  | Introduction & Keynote
   Introduction: Galya Stoeva | Sales Manager, West Coast | Okmetic
   Keynote: Karen Lightman | Vice President | MEMS & Sensors Industry Group, SEMI

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | WISE Panel Discussion
   Moderator: Galya Stoeva | Sales Manager, West Coast | Okmetic
   Panelists:
   Amy E. Duwel | Division Leader for Materials Engineering | Draper
   Karen Lightman | Vice President | MEMS & Sensors Industry Group, SEMI
   Donna Sandfox | Sales Planning Manager | Omron Electronic Components LLC
   Sandra Vos | Director of Engineering, MEMS | Knowles Corporation

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Coaching & Mentoring Roundtables
   Mentors:
   Amy E. Duwel | Division Leader for Materials Engineering | Draper
   Karen Lightman | Vice President | MEMS & Sensors Industry Group, SEMI
   Donna Sandfox | Sales Planning Manager | Omron Electronic Components LLC
   Sandra Vos | Director of Engineering, MEMS | Knowles Corporation

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Beers & Bites Reception on the Expo Floor

OBD standards are now driving the need for real-time diagnosis of aftertreatment system emissions performance over the life of the vehicle.  This system diagnosis requires the integration of information from a growing number of sensors in the vehicle exhaust pipe: NOx/NH3 sensors, soot load and particulate distribution sensors, temperature sensors, delta-pressure sensors, DEF and gas assist dosing pressure sensors, and DEF sensors including level, concentration/quality, and temperature are now becoming standard.  In addition to allowing control of the aftertreatment system and compliance to certification limits, improving sensor diagnostic functionality allows the OEM system to monitor the state of system health in real time.   These OBD sensors are becoming the guardrails that allow aftertreatment systems to meet required standards. In this context it is clear that OBD requirements at the vehicle level translate into reliability, performance, and self-diagnostic capabilities at the sensor level.  After a detailed description of the context, this talk will cover a number of tools that are employed today to ensure that the OBD compliance of emissions sensors is matched to the vehicle system during its development and integration phases.

Pushing remote sensor data to the Cloud is complex. Bluetooth, WiFi, and Gateways all have strong negatives. Emerging Low Power Wide Area Networks are able to overcome these challenges. Attendees will learn about LP-WAN Pro's and Con's through a demo.

Get a summary and review a progression of Functional Machine Safety, primarily dealing with entry monitoring from simple limit switches, to dual reed magnetic switches, to coded magnet switches and finally to RFID switches.  The main premise is to define the level of protection and tamper countermeasure improvements as these devices progressed in conjunction with the progression of the safety standards.

In a connected world, the promise of the Industrial IoT value proposition comes out only when multiple applications have access to the same device data on a real-time basis so as to influence the application eco-system. These applications will reside everywhere - some on the cloud, some on the edge. We are all aware of data breaches within the IT network that originated via the OT network. We are also aware of DDoS attacks using BOTS that ran on OT devices such as connected video surveillance cameras. The onset of Industrial IoT has created a new problem of how OT data from legacy un-connected control systems and devices can be transported securely from any device to any number of applications simultaneously; while ensuring protection of the legacy Industrial mission-critical asset, complete data isolation between OT and IT networks, as well as minimization of data theft.  This calls for a secure, flexible and scalable network infrastructure architecture that can support such a requirement for billions of devices in any vertical.

To build industrial sensor-to-cloud proof of concepts that integrate your technology, you must understand the components, protocols, interfaces, and security considerations needed. Whether you supply precision sensors and actuators, or software analytics in cloud platforms, you need some combination of hardware and software elements to build a real-world PoC. The challenge is in connecting the OT domain with IT enterprise to represent relevant data that's usable for your business case. Many gateways are focused only on IT data models or hardware that is tailored to enterprise systems, but doesn't consider low-level, embedded systems with their memory constraints and latency requirements.

Most mechanical and evaporative heat rejection equipment in an HVAC system has an induced-draft configuration typically including one or more axial fans mounted at the top of a steel structure. The fans move outdoor air through the equipment in order to expedite the heat transfer process. Because axial fans are large-diameter propeller fans with long blades, their stable performance is easily influenced by mechanical or environmental imbalance, damaged or worn gears and damaged shaft/coupling. When not at a stable operating level, the fans tend to vibrate at increased amplitude. Vibration monitoring is essential to provide signals for early warning or provide shutdown when vibration levels exceed a predetermined threshold.

Start your days off the right away with breakfastand coffee! This is a perfect way to reconnect with colleagues, mingle with speakers, meet industry press, and energize for the day ahead.

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.

Agenda:

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:

• Infotainment: From Radio-CD to Display-centric Smartphone content
• Connected Car: From Telematics to Cloud-content, OTA updates, Cyber-security, Wi-Fi & V2X
• Autonomous Driving: From Driver assist functions to Self-driving and Driverless cars
• Mobility-as-a-Service: From Ride-hailing to Battery EV-centric driverless vehicle fleets

10:45AM-11:15AM | Making Automated Driving a Reality - Jada Tapley, Vice President, Advanced Engineering & External Relations, Delphi 
The automotive landscape has transformed with the shift toward automated driving. Software and sensors have come together to make the vision of automated driving a reality. Come and learn more about the technology that makes this exciting new reality possible. 

11:15AM-11:45AM | The Future of the IVI Experience: Will Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto Take Over In-Vehicle Infotainment? - Leonard Nieman, In-Vehicle Apps Architect Manager, GM
IVI was once looked upon as a luxury item, but is quickly moving to becoming standard equipment. The questions is, how does IVI evolve from here? What is the optimal User Experience? Will Apps, Projection, Natural Language speech, or autonomous driving change the game or just bring more of the same?

11:45AM-12:00PM | Break - Snacks and Refreshments Provided

12:00PM-12:30PM | V2X Shaping the Future of Transportation - Michael Blicher, Director of Business Development, Autotalks 
Communications between vehicle to vehicles (V2V) or Vehicles to Infrastructure (V2I) What does it mean for the future of IVI and AD and passenger experience.

12:30PM-1:00PM | The Compute Engines that will Drive Machine Learning and Autonomous Drive - Willard Tu, Sr. Director - Automotive Business Unit, Xilinx 
A key component to helping autonomous driving is providing a platform to which all the machine learning software will run on.  Semiconductor System on Chip (SoC) vendors are racing to create the "brains" to which all that software will run on. Come and learn the challenges SoC vendors are facing as they work to keep pace with the AD expectations and not slow down the momentum.

1:00PM-1:30PM | Panel Discussion - Ask the Experts
Automotive experts will provide their perspective in this Q&A session.  Come ask the questions that you've been wanting answers to.

Agenda:

10:15-10:45am  |  IoT 101: From the Edge to the Enterprise - Functional Decomposition of the IoT Ecosystem - David Houghton, Strategist, James Brehm & Associates

11:00-11:30am  |  What Processor for What Application - Richard LaBorde, Director of IoT Business Development, Anaren

1:00-1:30pm  |  Journey to Finished Products - Scott Schwalbe, CEO, NimbeLink

Agenda:

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.

Working with sensor data, particularly sensor data in the form ofsignals, can be very difficult. High sample-rate signals like sound,vibration, accelerometry and electrical signals are usually thedomain of the signal processing engineer, but there are newmachine learning and AI-driven techniques that make thesetypes of data much easier to work with, and much easier to blendwith data from other sensors. This session will help you better understand the difference between time-series and signal data in sensors. Attendees will learn how to determine the right approach for working with each and how to use the latest machine learning and AI techniques on this kind of data.

Machine learning is unlocking unprecedented hidden value from IIoT streaming sensor data, driving measurable business value across industries. Take the energy sector for example, advanced IIoT analytics solutions are significantly reducing operating costs and bolstering safety by alerting operators before critical asset incidents occur and empowering them to take preventative actions. By combining sensor data with visual analytics tools, operators can see patterns of equipment productivity degradation and stoppages. With streaming analytics, sensors support continuous surveillance, decision support, and automated action. Such technologies are augmenting intelligence in the energy sector, driving operational efficiency and meaningful ROI.

More and more companies are collecting data from their sensors, however, many companies are simply collecting this data rather than taking action or deriving insights from the data. Companies know that they need to do something with this data, however, there are many challenges from a lack of resources to not understanding what can be done with the data that prevent companies from implementing solutions. This presentation will discuss the current challenges of starting a Big Data project, give a step by step guide on how to start organizing data and brainstorming solutions and the benefits of implementing a solution.

Guidance Navigation Control (GNC) systems on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) platforms often have to provide reliable service through challenging conditions.  For example, the faster these platforms operate, quite often, the more difficult their vibration profiles are to manage.  For those platforms that leverage MEMS IMU/Gyroscopes as their feedback sensing element, the gyroscope’s response to linear vibration can be the most influential error contribution in the GNC's operation.  Therefore, understanding and predicting this response is often a critical step in developing a GNC architecture for an AV platform. This session will deliver the following benefits to the audience:
1. Learn how to  quantity system vibration in a manner that enables simple analysis and prediction.
2. Learn how to identify key behaviors in MEMS IMU/Gyroscope datasheets and how to analyze their impact on key system metrics, such as bandwidth, noise and bias 
3. Learn how to define requirements for vibration mounting solutions, when they are necessary

IIoT devices present many challenges, as they have limited resources in terms of CPU, Memory, OS constraints, etc.. These characteristics require careful consideration when it comes to the preferred method of monitoring for failures and threats. Learn the pros and cons of the different methods that could be used for embedded systems: 1) Hardware based - external hardware attached to the system with data analyzed outside of system; 2) Software based - code is added to the system by either integrating into existing application code or as separate processes; 3) Hybrid solution - combination of both hardware and software taking advantage of the benefits of each and minimizing the faults.

Moving beyond the basic objective of collecting and reporting raw data from a stretchable or wearable sensor system, integrating processors and actuators enables analysis on that data which can then drive decisions and actions. When this occurs both the value of the product and the complexity of device integration increases.  A series of developments in both scalable manufacturing integration methods and reliability testing are underway at NextFlex in programs with participation from GE, Binghamton University, Georgia Tech, Cal Poly, DuPont, Raytheon, Boeing and others.  Advancements in integrated direct-write solutions, IC integration and reliability test methods will all contribute to driving these intelligent systems to success in the marketplace.

Magnetic position sensors use the measured magnetic field to detect the position or presence of a magnet. Common examples are door/window open or closed detection and wheel revolution counting as in a gas or electric meter. Tampering means using second magnet to defeat or fool the position sensor. In today's security conscious world inclusion of tamper detection is becoming more and more a requirement. Attendees of this session will learn about:

1.) Requirements related to tamper detection in security applications and electronic meters (wheel revolution counting)
2.) Strategies for tamper detection and adding tamper detection with minimal cost and power penalty
3.) Case studies related to tamper detection for security applications and electronic meters

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.

Rapid prototyping for a state of the art precision dual-axis Surface Angular Measurement (SAM) tool was developed in <10 days for an industrial manufacturing research need for dual-axis tilt measurement. Precision inclinometers are abundant, however; meeting custom needs for size, weight, axes, accuracy, precision, logging, display, and battery management into one design excluded various off-the-shelf devices.  Based on mechatronic design principles and rapid prototyping MEMS, a functional sensor design was achieved at low cost and minimal time.  A successful result with high confidence achieved a precision of <+/-0.058°, an accuracy of <+/-0.099° within a +/- 4°range.

Attendee benefits include:
• Discussion of rapid prototyping MEMS applications for precision measurement.
• End-User’s discussion on quality functional prototypes for sensor applications for industry.
• Detailed discussion of how to build a precision dual-axis inclinometer for acceptable gage
performance with small inexpensive modular components.

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.

This session documents proven sensor options and techniques that both reduce system cost while at the same time reduce power consumption in many cases by an order of magnitude. A case study of a battery-powered sensor system is presented with proposed optimization quantified. A functional embedded system that includes cost-power optimized examples of temp, light, proximity magnetic field and motion sensing will be discussed and demonstrated during this live and interactive session. Attendees leave this session with: 1.sensor options and techniques that both reduce both system cost and reduce power 2. how to quantify and measure the benefits 3. pitfalls to avoid in cost-power optimized embedded system design.