Abstract:
Low-power wireless sensor networks has the potential to revolutionize both in industry and our daily lives, but the lack of interoperability have hampered progress thus far. IP-based low-power sensor neworks are changing this, with full IP connectivity combined with efficient low-power operation that promise years of lifetime on batteries. Recent IETF standardization efforts in the 6lowpan and ROLL groups provide header compression and routing. New efforts in providing application-level connectivity are emerging. I will talk about the architecture, the technology, and the applications of IP-based sensor networks.

Bio:
Adam Dunkels, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. He has published over 50 scientific papers on wireless sensor networks, is the principal author of the Contiki operating system, and the uIP and lwIP embedded IP stacks. In 2009, the MIT Technology Review named him one of the 35 top innovators under 35. He is also a co-author of the upcoming book "Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP - the Next Internet".

 

Session 1: Industrial Deployment of Sensor Network Technology

Abstract:
Many problems in the industry can be solved by generic wireless sensor networks. Strategy; Measure anything you like, distribute it wirelessly, to one or many receivers, make use of the information. From the receivers, monitor, control and alarm. Via gateways, gather full access over the Internet. I will present, share and discuss six years of unique field knowledge from the deployment of state-of-the-art applications in Sweden.

Bio:
Mr. Janis Platbardis is the founder of the RadioSense, TermoSense and TNT-Elektronik AB companies. All of these companies are focused around wireless sensor technology. Janis is a member of the WISENET board, striving for pragmatic sensor deployment and usages. He is an engineer and has been developing innovative electronic and wireless products and applications since the early sixties! Janis is unique in having been avarded SKAPA grants, in the memory of Alfred Nobel, twice! Finally he is a carismatic TV celebrity, bringing our field of engineering into the public, by a vinning concept in "Draknästet" recently presented in the 17th of March, as the overall winning innovative concept of the TV-series!

Abstract:
Radio communication has been around for many years and has been widely adopted for commercial and private use. The automation industry has already incorporated wireless technologies into some products and offerings. The latest trend is to introduce wireless communication for field level devices, an area where wireless sensor technology is a good fit.
This presentation will give an overview of the area, discuss opportunities, challenges, and applications, seen from an industrial point-of-view.

Bio:
Tomas Lennvall recieved his Ph.D on "Adapting to Varying Demands in Resource Constrained Real-Time Devices" from Mälardalen University, Sweden. He is currently employed by ABB Corporate Research in Sweden where he works with embedded systems and wireless sensor network technologies.

Abstract:
CRL Sweden is an OEM supplier of software technology for Mesh networking. CRL's customers are product vendors within diametrically different application areas and market segments that all requiring robust and reliable mesh networking. The applications range from indoor Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) systems to battery powered sensor networks for military surveillance in the most challenging environments. These WSN systems must work 24/7 and failure is not an option. CRLs protocol stack "µC-CORE" for embedded radio devices build on the Contiki OS. When taking cutting edge low power Mesh networking technology from the lab and simulation environment to the real world deployments though, a lot of new challenges arise. Björn Karlsson, CEO of CRL Sweden will talk about a few of the challenges CRL faced during the product development and customer deployments on the way to achieve a military grade robust low power WSN system.

Bio:
Björn Karlsson is CEO for Communication Reasearch Labs Sweden AB

Abstract:
A modern truck uses up to 25 different ECUs to control and optimize its performance. Functionality and sensors are distributed over a local network. Adaptive cruise control is a typical example of distributed functionality involving radar sensor, chassis ECU, engine ECU, brake ECU and instrument cluster ECU. This comfort function is now evolving to automatic emergency braking to manage autonomous braking of full size truck when a collision is imminent which is a legal requirement in EU from 2013. Many trucks are also “connected” to the office thru GPRS for positioning, transport tasks and follow up of truck and driver performance. Future trends include use of more sensors and digital maps to avoid accidents, save fuel and to reduce emissions. Communication technologies with higher bandwidth will enable sensor and information sharing between vehicles and with the infrastructure. The vehicle will no longer be standalone, but an integrated part of transport system.

Bio:
Tony Sandberg recieved his Licentiate degree at Scania and Lindköpings University as an industrial PhD student. He is currently employed by SCANIA CV where he is the Head of Advanced Engineering, Electrical Systems.

Session 2: Industrial Safety-Critical Embedded Systems organised by the European project PREDATOR

Abstract:
Multi-processor and multi-core systems are becoming increasingly important in time critical systems. Shared resources, such as shared memory, I/O peripherals or communication buses are used for tasks to share data, read sensors and output control signals. This talk will present how to analyze the worst-case response time for real-time tasks for different resource access arbiters. For different resource access models and different execution models, we explore the ir schedulability relationship. Based on the analysis of these models, we conclude which model designers should use for resource-sharing multiprocessor systems.

Bio:
Dr. Jian-Jia Chen received his Ph.D. degree from Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 2006. Since 2008, after completing his compulsory military service, he has been a postdoc researcher at Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include real-time systems, embedded systems, energy-efficient scheduling, power-aware designs, temperature-aware scheduling, and distributed computing. He receives two best paper awards. He is appointed W1 Juniorprofessor, starting from May 2010, in Department of Informatics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany.

Abstract:
Despite the research effort devoted to continuously create higher performance systems, current methodologies for SoC design and application development are still based on simulation. Virtual platforms are indeed extensively used both for early software development before the real hardware is available, and to optimize the utilization of the hardware resources for the application itself when the real hardware is already there. This presentation will provide an accurate review of the current virtual platforms for SoC architectures and it will discuss the most important aspects and the key features for enabling the development of the future simulators for predictable multicore architectures.

Bio:
Martino Ruggiero received a Ph.D. from the University of Bologna, Italy. He is currently with the Electronics, Computer Sciences, and Systems Department, University of Bologna, where he holds a post-doctoral position. His research interests include embedded system architecture and software design, and development of simulation environments at different levels of abstraction for multiprocessor systems-on-chip.

Luca Benini received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1997. He is currently a Full Professor with the Electronics, Computer Sciences, and Systems Department, University of Bologna, Italy. His research interest includes design of system-on-chip platforms for embedded applications. He is also active in the area of energy-efficient smart sensors and sensor networks, including biosensors and related data mining challenges. He has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, four books, and several book chapters.