Visit of Anouk Wipprecht at Automation Systems Group

Thanks to the publicity of the IPSO challenge Anouk Wipprecht made a visit at our lab last week to get insights into our Internet of Things activities and the www.iotsys.org project. Was a pleasure to have her here! She also presented her amazing work on fashiontech (http://www.anoukwipprecht.nl/). Hope we can cooperate in future. 

Paper accepted at the 4th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2014) taking place October 6–8, 2014 at Cambridge, MA, USA

My paper titled "The relevance and impact of IPv6 multicasting for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks based on 6LoWPAN and Constrained RESTful Environments" was accpeted at the 4th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2014) taking place October 6–8, 2014 at Cambridge, MA, USA. It will be hosted by the MIT Media Lab, so I am already excited to go to this innovative and prestigious place.

The paper contains the simulation results of the IoTSyS stack and the evaluation of the IPv6 multicasting effect on the sensor network that is used by the IoTSyS group communication mechanism.

Different communication topologies have been evaluated regarding the effect on latency and memory size.

IoTSyS participated in the IoT challenge hosted by the IPSO alliance in Chicago at Sensor Expo 2014

IoTSyS made it to the finals of the IoT challenge. It was a very nice event in Chicago and very strong competitors. Several start-ups presented very innovative Internet of Things products and other universities (e.g. MIT) also participated. IoTSyS closely missed a top 3 place and was ranked number 4 of 10, which was a very nice result taking into account the strong competitors. The innovative concept of the project received a very positive response, main criticism point was the lacking market readiness as product.

The competition take place in parallel to the conference and all top 10 finalists had about 6 minutes to present the project and prototype to a selected experts commitee.

IoTSyS was demonstrated with a mobile IoT demo suitcase consisting of a home and building automation system based on heterogeneous technologies in a box + IPv6 enabled smart objects.

What made the event more a success, was the opportunity to present the project at the IoT pavilion at the sensor expo of the IPSO alliance with a table dedicated to IoTSyS.

The reach out was tremendous and several interested expo attendees stopped by and showed real interest in the project. So it was definitely a great opportunity to promote the open source project to a very high quality audience.
Finally, there was also some time left for sightseeing in Chicago :)