27th May 2010 – National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK

Wireless micro-autonomous systems with their very severe volume constraints present significant challenges to the design of power sources that meet the operational requirements of key application scenarios. State-of-art power sources often fail to meet such requirements and while energy harvesters provide a promising alternative, interfacing them properly remains a major problem. Power management is an active research topic aiming to control power consumption in electronic devices, while providing a reasonably good performance.

This one day event organised by the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN and the Electronics KTN on the 27th May 2010 at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington UK and aims to explore the design opportunities provided by power management concepts and optimisation strategies that are applicable to the scale of micro-autonomous systems. The event will disseminate the results of a recently conducted survey on power management technologies. The programme will feature a panel discussion debating the best practices in design approaches at the system level covering hardware, software implementation and innovative systems design. The event will be an opportunity to meet innovators from the electronics and sensing community as well as developers and users of power management technologies and applications.

For further information visit http://www.tinyurl.com/ktnpmc

The 5th annual IEEE European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context a platform to discuss   techniques, algorithms, architectures, protocols, and user aspects underlying context-aware  smart surroundings and cooperating intelligent objects.

The conference will take place in Passau, Germany, from 14 – 16 November.

We invite the submission of full papers, posters, and demos on subjects related to:
* Distributed smart sensing and context recognition
* Context processing
* Context-aware actuators, interaction methods, and human aspects
* Applications, deployment, test beds and case studies
* Opportunistic information and context processing

The paper submission deadline is June 16 2010.

More information is available here.

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 200 students during the past four events. Internet of Things is regarded as one of the top ten technologies that will impact the future life style and industrial products.

The aim of the summer school is to:

* Present the latest results, trends, activities and applications in the IoT domain
* Identify novel research opportunities, important challenges and research directions
* Demonstrate existing prototypes and demos
* Interact with experienced researchers and establish new contacts
* Have fun and enjoy while acquiring new skills and expertise

PROGRAM
The summer school will last for 5 days and will feature a number of different activities:

* Lectures: Each day will feature lectures and discussions around a various research themes like 6loWPAN and IETF activities on COAP, Security in IoT, European activities on IoT and SENSEI framework, M2M services in mobile networks, SENSEI pan-European test bed, WSN Implementation for Intelligent Buildings, Sensor placement and energy optimization in green buildings of the future internet and building mobile applications for interaction with sensors.
Lecturers (TBC) include: Antoine Fraboulet (INSA Lyon), Alex Gluhak (Uni of Surrey), Stephan Haller (SAP), Srdjan Krco (Ericsson), Sotiris Nikoletseas (CTI Patras),  Antonio Ruzelli (UCD), Zach Shelby (Sensinode), Konrad Wrona (NATO C3 Agency).

* Participants Workshop: All participants will have an opportunity to present their own work and involvement in the field.
* Soft skills: working in teams and presentation skills exercises
* Social activities: One day is scheduled for an excursion; a dinner party as well as other interesting social activities will be also organized.

VENUE
The summer school will take place in Rijeka, Croatia.

REGISTRATION, COSTS and TRAVELING
Participation is open to all qualified applicants, but the number of participants is limited to a maximum of 40. If we receive more applications, we will select participants based on their work area and background, geographic distribution, and date of registration.

To apply, please fill in the form available at http://www.senzations.net/ or send an e-mail including name, contact information, research area and background to local organizers.

The registration fee of EUR300  includes participation at all school activities, school material, accommodation in two bed rooms in a student house, breakfasts, lunches, a gala dinner and a social event (excursion to Istria).

IMPORTANT DATES
Application deadline: July 01, 2010

ORGANIZATION
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Program Committee:
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson
Konrad Wrona, NATO C3 Agency

We are excited to announce that the fourth Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in December 2010.

The purpose of the fourth Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks.

When working with real-world experiments or deployments, many new issues arise: the network environment may be composed of a variety of
different technologies, leading to very heterogeneous network structures; software development for large scale networks poses new types of problems; prototype networks may differ significantly from the deployed system; actual sensor network deployments may need a complex combination of autonomous and manual configuration. Furthermore, results obtained through simulation are typically not directly applicable to operational networks and it is therefore imperative for the community to produce results from experimental research.

More info here.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners from the WMSN and WSN communities to foster a fruitful and critical discussion on integrated solutions for Secure WMSNs that could help in the development of new design methodologies for planning advanced services. In particular, the Guest Editors encourage the submission of papers related to one or more of the following issues:

- Innovative technological platforms for Secure WMSNs;
– Advanced monitoring applications based on Secure WMSNs;
– New analytical methodologies and tools to design Secure WMSNs;
– QoS and QoE in Secure WMSNs;
– Performance evaluation of Secure WMSNs with particular attention to achievable performance bounds on QoE, Energy efficiency, and Security;
– Communications algorithms and protocols for Secure WMSNs (Physical, MAC, Network, Transport layers, and Cross layer stacks);
– Security in Multimedia encoding, compression, and aggregation algorithms for WMSNs;
– Encryption techniques for multimedia contents in WMSNs;
– Security and Privacy policies, Trust management, authentication and data integrity in WMSNs;
– Secure Localization in WMSNs;
– Scalability and Fairness in Secure WMSNs;
– Joint Security, Multimedia Coding and Communication techniques in WMSNs.

Submission deadline: 15th of June, 2010

More info here.

The Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2010) will be held in Brisbane, Australia in December.

ISSNIP is organized as a number of independent symposia that discuss recent results Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing. This year ISSNIP will be co-located with e-Science 2010.

They are currently calling for symposia, workshops and tutorials.  Symposium and Tutorial Proposals should come by 15 May.

Website: http://www.issnip.org/2010/issnip.pdf

DCOSS 2010 will feature a poster/demo session that provides a forum for distributed computing and sensor network researchers and developers from academia, industry, and government to interact with and explore the latest research results.  Towards this goal, DCOSS 2010 solicits posters and
demonstrations presenting recent original results or ongoing research in the general area of sensor networks. Authors are invited to submit interesting
results on all aspects of sensor networks, including algorithms, protocols, systems and applications.

Important Dates:
Abstracts Submission Deadline: April 26, 2010
Notification of Acceptance:    May 3, 2010
Conference Dates:              June 21 – 23, 2010

More info here.

More info here.

Another edition of the WSN Programming Tutorial will be presented in Stockholm as part of the CPS Week on April 12-16, 2010. This gathering will bring together five leading conferences and interrelated scientific communities, check the following links for the specific events HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, LCTES, and RTAS.

More info here

SenSys, the flagship conference of sensor networks, is coming to Europe for the first time. Zurich is an amazing city to visit (and the beautiful campus of ETH Zurich is not so far from the lively city life). Try submitting your best works to SenSys this year!

The call for papers can be found here and is also appended below.
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