Workshop on Open Source Solutions for the Internet of Things

ICTP, Trieste - Italy

June 27 - July 7, 2017

Venue

The workshop will be held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The Scientific Fabrication Laboratory (SciFabLab) is housed in the Fermi Building on the ICTP campus.

IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. The number of mobile objects composing the IoT will be huge: in 2020 between 12 to 50 billion devices are expected to be connected, a 12- to 50-fold growth from 2012.

Hands-on

Learners grasp new ideas and principles better when they are presented “here and now.” Many new concepts can be explained through concrete examples and hands-on experience. The combination of “learning-by-doing” and problem-based learning is an extremely potent method.


A little about IoT


Today computers—and, therefore, the Internet—are almost wholly dependent on human beings to input information. If we had computers that knew everything needed about things—using data they gathered without any help from us—we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, loss and cost. We would know when things required replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best. This new technology is called Internet of Things (IoT) and has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet did. Maybe even more so.

Applications of Internet of Things can greatly benefit populations in Developing Countries: food safety can be checked, water quality can be monitored, landslides can be detected and mosquitoes can be counted in cities in real time. Our workshop will provide a complete introduction to the Internet of Things with a special focus on applications that are relevant to Developing Countries, adopting a problem-solving methodology.

WORKSHOP'S SCHEDULE


To achieve real change, we have to expand boundaries.
This is why we will mix academic rigor with hands-on experimentation.



Monday June 26th



Morning session

8:15-9:30 Registration, Administrative and Financial formalities.
All financially supported participants lodging at ICTP Guesthouses should reach the Operations and Travel Unit at the Enrico Fermi Building in order to fulfill all financial procedures. Please bring with you passport and travel receipts.
Registration at SciFabLab: only for participants lodging outside ICTP premises and faculty.

9:30-10:00 Opening
Marco Zennaro, ICTP

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Introduction to IoT
Marco Zennaro, ICTP

11:30-12:30 Introduction to IPv6
Alvaro Vives, RIPE

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-16:00 Python Lab
Franck Albinet

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Python Lab
Franck Albinet

Tuesday June 27th



Morning session

9:00-10:00 Introduction to IPv6, part 2
Alvaro Vives, RIPE

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:30 IPv6 Lab
Alvaro Vives, RIPE

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-16:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

Wednesday June 28th



Morning session

9:00-10:00 Radio Propagation and Antennas
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, ICTP

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 Radio Propagation and Antennas
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, ICTP

11:30-12:30 Intro to Sensors: from Atoms to Bits
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, ICTP

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-16:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

Thursday June 29th



Morning session

9:00-10:00 Wireless standards for IoT: WiFi, BLE, SigFox, NB-IoT and LoRa
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, ICTP

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 Wireless standards for IoT: WiFi, BLE, SigFox, NB-IoT and LoRa
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, ICTP

11:30-11:30 Radio Link Planning with RFBot
Marco Zennaro, ICTP

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00 Introduction to RIPE Atlas
Alvaro Vives, RIPE

15:00-16:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

Friday June 30th



Morning session

9:00-10:00 IoT Network Engineering
Antoine Bagula, UWC

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 LoRa details
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, ICTP

11:00-12:30 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-16:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 microPython Lab
Franck Albinet

Monday July 3rd



Morning session

9:00-10:00 Intro to REST and MQTT
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica De Valéncia

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 Intro to REST and MQTT
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica De Valéncia

11:00-12:30 Intro to blockchain technology
Martin Saint, Carnegie Mellon University (Rwanda)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-16:00 MQTT Lab
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica De Valéncia

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 MQTT Lab
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica De Valéncia

Tuesday July 4th



Morning session

9:00-10:00 Powering and Solar Energy
Ermanno Pietrosemoli, ICTP

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:30 Internet of Animals
Stephen Hailes, University College London

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-16:00 Case Study Presentations by SigComm participants

DEOKATE Balu, India

DITTOH Francis, Ghana

EBRAHIMI Farzad, Iran

FLORES CORTEZ Omar, El Salvador

DIEDRICHS Ana Laura, Argentina

GICHAMBA Amos, Kenya

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Case Study Presentations by SigComm participants

KAKOKO Lubamba, DRC

KONDELA Emmanuel, Tanzania

NAVARRO ROJAS Kiara Karina, Panama

PONCE DE LEON BARIDO Diego, Mexico

SAINT Martin, USA

TAYLOR George Washington Archbold, Colombia

TABARES Lorenzo Hernández, Cuba

ZLOBINSKY Natasha, South Africa

Wednesday July 5th



Morning session

9:00-10:00 Blockchain technology and IoT
Martin Saint, Carnegie Mellon University (Rwanda)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:30 Security, Privacy and Ethics of IoT
Stephen Hailes, University College London

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-16:00 Time series analysis with Python and MQTT integration
Sandor Markon, Kobe Institute of Computing

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Time series analysis with Python and MQTT integration
Sandor Markon, Kobe Institute of Computing

Thursday July 6th



Morning session

9:00-10:00 Planning the deployment in Miramare Park
Marco Zennaro, ICTP

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:30 IoT Deployment in Miramare Park

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:30 Case Study Presentations by Participants

Dagmawi Lemma Gobena, Ethiopia

Maximiliano Fermín Córdoba, Argentina

Nabil Benamar, Morocco

Jose Enrique Garcia, Colombia

Antonio Araujo Brett, Venezuela

Walid Gomaa, Egypt

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Case Study Presentations by Participants

Anderson Julca Vasquez, Peru

Charles Kabiri, Rwanda

Cristian Arrieta, Colombia

Nesredien Suleiman, Ethiopia

Sharma Aayushi, India

Milan Dragan Milosevic, Serbia

Isaac Kabuya, Democractic Republic of Congo

Friday July 7th



Morning session: IoT and Capacity Building

9:00-10:00 ITU-D Activities in IoT
Mike Nxele, ITU (TBC)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 ISOC's activities in IoT, Privacy and Security
Robin Wilton, ISOC

11:30-12:30 Group Discussion

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 Closing Ceremony and Diplomas

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

Pictures and List of Participants



Pictures taken during the workshop are on Google Photos.

The Group Photo can be downloaded here.

The List of Participants can be downloaded here.


MEET OUR AWESOME TEAM





Marco Zennaro

Marco is a Research Officer at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. His research interest is in the use of WSN for Development. He holds a PhD from KTH-The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.


Alvaro Vives

Alvaro is currently based in the Netherlands where he works for the RIPE NCC. He started working with IPv6 back in 2002. As a trainer since 2006 has given more than 65 workshops in more than 20 countries. He holds a Master in Telecommunications from Universidad de Vigo and an MBA from Universidad de Almería.


Sandor Markon

Sandor is a Professor at Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan.His interest in ICT4D is mostly sensors and signal processing. He also works in AI, optimization, and new human-machine interfaces. He holds a PhD from Kyoto University.


Stephen Hailes

Steve is the Director of Studies and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. He is interested in all aspects of mobile systems and security. But most particularly in the hard bits: ad hoc systems, pervasive/ambient computing environments, and how to secure these things.



Franck Albinet

Franck is a Geographical Information System and Data analyst who has been providing for the last decade support to emergency responses in various areas including Humanitarian and Nuclear Emergency.


Ermanno Pietrosemoli

A graduate from Stanford, Ermanno has been a professor in Telecommunications at University de Los Andes in Venezuela. He is now a researcher at ICTP. He holds the world record for the longest WiFi Link: 383 km.


Pietro Manzoni

Pietro Manzoni is a Professor of Computer Networks at the “Universitat Politècnica de València”, Spain. His research activity is related to Networking and Mobile Systems and applied to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Opportunistic Networking for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things, and Community Networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE.


Martin Saint

Martin is a Scholar in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda. He currently teaches and researches in the areas of telecommunications, network engineering, cyber-physical systems, financial technology, and digital financial services. Martin has an MS and PhD candidacy in Telecommunications at the University of Colorado.



Antoine Bagula

Antoine obtained his doctoral degree in 2006 from the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He held lecturing positions at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Cape Town before joining the Computer Science department at the University of the Western Cape in January 2014. He has authored/co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals and book chapters. His current research interest is in ICT with a specific focus on the Internet-of-Things, Cloud Computing, Data Science Analytics and Technologies and Communication Networks.


Marco Rainone

Marco has been a collaborator of the ICTP Wireless Lab since 2014. He is a freelance technical consultant since 2003, in the areas of embedded and mobile systems, integration of embedded systems in industrial automations and test systems, remote monitoring of systems for maintenance management, development of communication drivers for specialized hardware equipment.
He developed the software used in the TVWS Analyzer which has spectrum data from 30 different countries.



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Contact Information

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