Летња школа Senzations 2014
9th Summer School on IoT and Applications senZations'14.
August 31 - September 6, 2014, Biograd na moru, Croatia.
Design and deploy your own IoT solutions in the beautiful environment of Biograd na moru, run experiments and learn how to use smart devices!
Learn about the latest achievements in the field of IoT from the experts coming from the EU FP7 projects SocIoTal, IoT6, Planet, EarIt, City Pulse and IoT Lab!
Join us, have fun, meet peers and experienced researchers, expand your network of contacts.
The senZations summer school has become an annual event on the agenda of young researchers in Europe. Covering a range of novel topics from wireless sensor networks to M2M to Internet of Things and their applications with support of excellent lecturers and senior researchers from academy and industry, the senZations have attracted more than 400 students during the past eight events.
The aim of the summer school is to:
- Provide access to the latest results, trends, activities and applications in the IoT domain
- Run experiments using heterogeneous devices and build your own live testbed deployment in Biograd
- Mobile crowdsensing (not just smart phones, but horses as well)
- Security, privacy and societal aspects of IoT
- Identify novel research opportunities, important challenges and research directions
- Demonstrate existing prototypes and demos - and implement new ones!
- Interact with experienced researchers and establish new contacts
- Have fun and enjoy the beauty of the Adriatic coast while acquiring new skills and expertise
PROGRAM
The summer school will last for 5 days and will feature a number of different activities:
Hackhaton: Work in a teams comprising technical and business focused members in order to design and deploy solutions on different devices and frameworks, together with analysis of its market potential.
Lectures: Each day will feature lectures with subsequent discussions around important IoT research themes and technology areas:
- IoT architecture: an overview of the proposals and approaches towards defining an overall architectural framework for IoT
- IoT and IPv6
- Acoustic sensing
- Semantic sensor networks and Linked Open Data
- Deployment, operation and maintenance of large-scale/complex systems of heterogeneous networked cooperating objects, including wireless sensor and actuator networks and mobile objects
- Smart cities and intelligent buildings
- Social impacts of IoT, role and potential of IPv6 in IoT, including co-creation process
- Latest standards developments in IETF and ETSI, FI-PPP and IERC.
Lecturers include (to be confirmed): Alex Gluhak (Intel Labs), Konrad Wrona (NCI Agency), Rob van Kronenburg (IoT Council), Payam Barnaghi (Univ. of Surrey), Michele Nati (Univ. of Surrey), Sebastien Ziegler (Mandate International), Stefan Fischer&Franziska Kühn (Univ. of Luebeck), Congduc Pham (PAU Univ.), Lesse Steenbock Vestergaard (Alexandra Institute), Sotiris Nikoletseas (CTI/Univ. of Patras), Valerio Veglio (Univ. of Southampton), Salil Kanhere (Univ. of New South Wales), Charalampos Doucas (Create Net), Dick Brandt (Leehigh Univ.), Srdjan Krco (DunavNET).
Participants Workshop: All participants will have an opportunity to exercise their presentation skills and to get constructive feedback while presenting their own work and/or the results of the team projects.
Social activities: A half-day excursion, a dinner party as well as other interesting social activities will be also organized.
VENUE
The summer school will take place in hotel Adria in Biograd na moru - a beautiful town on Croatian coast.
REGISTRATION, COSTS and TRAVELING
Participation is open to all qualified applicants, but the number of participants is limited to a maximum of 50. Please register early. To apply, please fill in the form available at http://www.senzations.net.
The registration fee of EUR415 (465EUR for registrations made after June 20, 2014) includes participation at all school activities, school material, 6 days shared accommodation in 2-persons rooms with full board, a social event and access to all hotel (4*) facilities.
IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration deadline: June 20, 2014
For registrations after June 20, 2014, the participation fee is 465EUR - so be fast, book your place now!
Program Committee:
Srdjan Krco, DunavNET
Konrad Wrona, NCI Agency
Alexander Gluhak, Intel Labs