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Wednesday, February 17, 14:00 - 17:00 (CET)

The CHIIoT workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from industrial design, computer science, and electrical engineering working on new challenges in industry and academia. The workshop will provide a platform for participants to review and discuss challenges and opportunities in the intersection of computer-human interaction and the internet of things, focusing on human-centered applications using emerging connectivity and sensing technologies. We aim to jointly develop a design space and identify opportunities for future research.

More information about the workshop and the submission instructions are available at http://chiiot.org

Tutorials

Internet of Things with Microcontrollers: a hands-on course

Wednesday, February 17, 14:00 - 17:00 (CET)

The tutorial addresses the entire chain of IoT microcontroller programming, from object to cloud. It provides an introduction to the IoT and hands-on experience in programming connected objects with microcontrollers. The programming activities of this course are carried out with Jupyter notebooks (https://jupyter.org/), using the RIOT OS (https://www.riot-os.org/), and the FIT IoT-LAB testbed (https://www.iot-lab.info/).

Program:

The general outline of the tutorial is as follows:

  1. A common core with activities that are followed by all the participants (1 hour)
    • Platform overview presentation: a presentation to give an overview of the testbed: design, usage and key-features.
    • First Experiment: launch your first experiment on the testbed and see basic usage and basic tools.
    • Discover RIOT-OS: write your first application and extend it. Discover the OS architecture and API with threads and timers and use sensors of the IoT-LAB M3 board.
  2. A set of pedagogical activities in which participants can choose at their convenience around the two themes of the Low-Power Communication Networks and IoT security (2 hours)

    Low-Power Communication Networks:
    • Discover 802.15.4 radio communication.
    • Use IPV6 with 6LoWPAN protocol.
    • Send/Receive UDP sockets.
    • Use IoT protocols: CoAP and LwM2M protocol.
    • Discover the basics of LoRaWAN communication Security.
    • Hash, encryption scheme and signature.
    • Communication with DTLS.
    • Over the air firmware update.

Note: activities take a minimum of 15/20 minutes (e.g. Discover 802.15.4 radio communication) and a maximum of 45 minutes (e.g. Discover the basics of LoRaWAN communication)

Bio of speakers:

Alexandre Abadie is a research engineer at Inria Saclay - Île-de-France. He is one of the main contributors of RIOT, involved in LoRaWAN support, STM32 and RISC-V support. As part of his work at Inria, Alexandre Abadie is also a core team member of the FIT-IoT-LAB platform, a testbed for large scale IoT experimentation.
Frédéric Saint-Marcel is a research engineer at Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes. Since 2012 he is the technical leader of FIT IoT-LAB development team focusing on Internet of Things and in charge of the testbed exploitation.

Requirements:

Participating in this tutorial doesn’t require any specific hardware or software installation. We use an IoT-LAB JupytherHub instance 4 with which participants can do all the activities. The tutorial can have a maximum of 30 participants.

 

Intra-body embedded networks exploiting ultrasounds and coupling technologies

Wednesday, February 17, 10:00 - 13:00 (CET)

Intra-body communication (IBC) is a novel key research area that will transform the next generation of healthcare technologies by in situ testing of physiological conditions, personalized medicine and proactive and targeted drug delivery. Intra-body networking (IBN) is the paradigm that interconnects the implants and allows them to transmit measurements to an external centre for real time processing and monitoring and to send commands to embedded actuators. Energy efficient and safe communication among implants, body sensors and external devices is thus required. The tutorial presents novel and biocompatible communication technologies for intra-body area networks that use the human body as a medium for data communication. In particular, ultrasounds and coupling techniques will be discussed with the specific aim of overcoming the limitations and weaknesses of the currently employed radio frequency technologies such as IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6. After describing the unique features of the human tissues and the basics on ultrasounds and coupling physics, the design aspects for IBNs will be discussed; then, protocols and architectures to support intra-body communication and networking in order to send biomedical data over tissues will be illustrated. To this purpose relevant literature in the field will be discussed with particular attention to medical applications and practical aspects. Experimental testbeds and activities in this field will be discussed by shading light on their high technology readiness level.

Program:

The tutorial will be presented in about three hours. The interchange of three speakers facilitates to catch the attention of the audience. Each speaker will discuss for about one hour in such a way to foster the participants’ interest by also balancing theoretical and practical contents, and discussing physical communication paradigms for both ultrasounds and coupling techniques, protocol design, experimental testbeds, applications and future research trends.

The outline of the tutorial includes:

  1. Intra Body Area Networks (IBANs): application requirements and design aspects. (15 min).
  2. State of the Art on RF solutions: Architecture and Standards. (15 min).
  3. Alternative techniques for IBAN: Ultrasounds & Coupling methods (inductive coupling, capacitive coupling, galvanic coupling). Communication techniques high level comparison. (30 min).
  4. Basics on ultrasounds and galvanic coupling physics and channel model. (45 min).
  5. Design of intra-body networks: medium access control, networking issues and experimental testbeds. (1 h).
  6. Relevant applications and open issues. (15 min).

Bio of speakers:

Laura Galluccio received her Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Catania, Italy, in 2001. In March 2005 she got her Ph.D. in Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at the same university. Since 2002 she is also at the Italian National Consortium of Telecommunications (CNIT), where she worked as a Research Fellow. Since November 2010 to October 2019 she has been Assistant Professor at University of Catania. From November 2019 she is Associate Professor at the same university. Her research interests include unconventional networks including ultrasonic and microfluidic networks, ad hoc and sensor networks in general, protocols and algorithms for wireless networks, and network performance analysis.
Anna Vizziello received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and computer science from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2007 and in 2011, respectively. Currently she is a Senior Research Associate with the Telecommunication and Remote Sensing Laboratory, University of Pavia, Italy, under the Research Grant on “Intra-body communication systems for nervous signal transmissions”. She has been included in the 2018 list of “N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications” for outstanding and impactful contributions in the area of networking/communications, supported by the IEEE Communication Society
Pietro Savazzi received his Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 1995 and in 1999, respectively. In 1999, he joined Ericsson Lab Italy, in Milan, as a system designer, working on broadband microwave systems. In 2001, he moved to Marconi Mobile, Genoa, Italy, as a system designer in the field of 3G wireless systems. Since 2003, he has been working at the University of Pavia where he is currently teaching courses on signal processing, wireless communications, and wireless sensor networks for biomedical applications. His main research interests are in wireless communications and sensor systems, with a focus on modulation and coding, adaptive signal processing, MIMO architectures, intra-body networks, and wearable wireless sensors.

Requirements:

There are no specific requirements. No special hardware or software is needed for this tutorial.