2015 IEEE Winter Academy on Internet of Things

In conjunction with the 2nd IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 2015 (IEEE WF-IoT 2015), held in Milan, Italy, on 14-16 December 2015, the IEEE Initiative on Internet of Things and the Università degli Studi di Milano are glad to announce the first edition of the IEEE Winter Academy on Internet of Things.
This is a continuous education activity directed to PhD students and young professionals who are interested in understanding some key aspects, challenges and future trends of the internet of things, some enabling technologies, and some practical aspects.

The Academy includes 8 tutorials, 5 keynote speeches, and 8 industrial panels on the above topics offered by leading scientists and professionals from around the world: attendees can choose within this variety of activities the ones which are more useful for their own education and profession. Up to 2 industrial panels can be included in the individual educational program within the Academy.

Attendance at the Academy is limited only to attendees registered at the 2015 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things at no additional charge.
Attendance at each of the Academy activities will be recorded: after the Academy, each attendee will receive a certificate of attendance, jointly issued by the IEEE Initiative on Internet of Things and the Università degli Studi di Milano, listing all attended activities, their respective durations, and their respective syllabi.

After the Academy a final exam will be also arranged individually for each attendee: attendees who will pass this exam will receive a certificate of acquired competences, jointly issued by the IEEE Initiative on Internet of Things and the Università degli Studi di Milano, which may be used for obtaining credits in formal educational programs (e.g., in degree’s programs at the attendee’s university) at institutions which recognize this type of documentation.

Prospective attendees who are interested in obtaining the certificates are kindly requested to register at the Academy to facilitate the logistics, even though they are not planning to attend all educational activities. 

 

Registration

To register at the Academy, please fill the online registration form below.  
 

Academy Steering Committee

Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (Chair)
Dr. Dave Cavalcanti, Intel Corporation, USA
Prof. Yen-Kuang Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Prof. Latif Ladid, Luxembourg University, Luxembourg
Dr. Roberto Minerva, Telecom Italia, Italy
Prof. Arnold Pears, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Prof. Antonio Skarmeta, Murcia University, Spain 
 

Questions

For any question, please contact the secretariat of the Academy at [email protected] 
 

Academy Program

DATE & LOCATION	EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY	TITLE AND LECTURER
Mon 14 Dec 2015 9:30-10:15 Aula Magna	Keynote speech	Internet of Vehicles: From Intelligent Grid to Autonomous Cars and Vehicular Clouds Prof. Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mon 14 Dec 2015 10:15-11:00 Aula Magna	Keynote speech	TBA
Mon 14 Dec 2015 11:30-13:30 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	Data Analytics for IoT Applications (abstract) Prof. Hsing-Kuo Pao and Dr. Yuh-Jye Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Mon 14 Dec 2015 11:30-13:30 Aula Magna	Industry panel	Deploying IoT in Manufacturing and Supply-chains: Challenges and Expectations
Mon 14 Dec 2015 14:30-16:30 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	Start the RIOT (abstract) Prof. Emmanuel Baccelli, INRIA, Paris, France
Mon 14 Dec 2015 14:30-16:30 Aula Magna	Industry panel	SDN & IoT
Mon 14 Dec 2015 17:00-19:00 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	IoT Device Management Using Eclipse IoT Open-Source Tools and Frameworks (abstract) Dr. Charalampos Doukas, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy, and Mr. Benjamin Cabe, Eclipse Foundation, Toulouse, France
Mon 14 Dec 2015 17:00-19:00 Aula Magna	Industry panel	Towards Fully IoT Connected Cities: Challenges and Trends
Tue 15 Dec 2015 9:00-9:45 Aula Magna	Keynote speech	IoT for Future Healthcare Prof. Ian Craddock, SPHERE, Bristol, UK
Tue 15 Dec 2015 9:45-10:30 Aula Magna	Tue 15 Dec 2015 9:45-10:30 Aula Magna	TBA
Tue 15 Dec 2015 11:30-13:30 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	Machine-to-Machine Communications and Internet of Things as Pillars of Smart City Initiatives (abstract) Mr. Soumya Kanti Datta, EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France
Tue 15 Dec 2015 11:30-13:30 Crociera Giurisprudenza	Industry panel	IoT Standardisation
Tue 15 Dec 2015 14:30-15:30 Aula Magna	Keynote speech	TBA Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Google, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Tue 15 Dec 2015 16:00-18:00 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	Open Interconnect Consortium - IOT Ecosystem, Specification and Framework (abstract) Mr. Ravi Subramaniam and Mr. Ned Smith, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Tue 15 Dec 2015 16:00-17:30 Crociera Giurisprudenza	Industry panel	The Internet of Things & Big Data Analytics
Tue 15 Dec 2015 17:30-19:00  Crociera Giurisprudenza	Industry panel	IoT and 5G
Wed 16 Dec 2015 9:00-11:00 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	Designing Comprehensive & End to End IoT Solutions: Challenges, Opportunities and Approaches Mr. Narang N. Kishor, Narnix Technolabs, New Delhi, India
Wed 16 Dec 2015 9:00-11:00 Crociera Lettere	Industry panel	Impact of IoT on Telecom and ISPs: IoT Services, Benefits and Challenges
Wed 16 Dec 2015 11:30-13:30 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	Software-defined Networking in the Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things Context (abstract) Mr. Bruno T. de Oliveira, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and Prof. Cintia Borges Margi, Universidade de São Paulo & Escola Politécnica, São Paulo, Brazil
Wed 16 Dec 2015 11:30-13:30 Crociera Lettere	Industry panel	IoT Security & Privacy
Wed 16 Dec 2015 14:30-16:30 Sala Napoleonica	Tutorial	Data Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things (abstract) Prof. Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

 

Academy Synopsis

TITLE	ABSTRACT
Data Analytics for IoT Applications Prof. Hsing-Kuo Pao and Dr. Yuh-Jye Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology	The IoT applications are expected to have huge impact to us in a very near future. To efficiently and effectively manage various IoT applications, we should carefully check the data that are generated by IoT devices to understand the environment states and monitor any particular anomalous conditions if there is any, so called the data driven approach. In this tutorial, we first state the constraints and assumptions of IoT data analytics. We discuss the data analytics that can work with little label information, or with limited resources such as computation power, bandwidth for IoT devices. We survey a list of data analytics methodology according to the above criteria, following a discussion on the difference between traditional data analytics and IoT data analytics. Anomaly detection, semi-supervised learning, approximate models, distributed models, models that consider spatial and temporal dependencies are among the methods that we should focus on this tutorial.
Start the RIOT Prof. Emmanuel Baccelli, INRIA	RIOT is a community-driven, open-source operating system for the Internet of Things. RIOT aims to become an equivalent of Linux for IoT devices that cannot run Linux due to resource constraints (e.g. memory constraints). RIOT allows cross-platform, C and C++ application programming on such IoT devices, and provides standards-compliant network stacks allowing such applications to interoperate and communicate with one another or with the Internet. The objectives of this hackathon is to (i) introduce the basics of RIOT to the audience and (ii) guide the audience through a first hands-on experience with the OS on real IoT hardware.  Prerequisites
IoT Device Management Using Eclipse IoT Open- Source Tools and Frameworks Dr. Charalampos Doukas, CREATE-NET and Mr. Benjamin Cabe, Eclipse Foundation	The Internet of Things is becoming a reality with more and more devices being connected to the Internet and enabling interactions with users and their context. This connectivity is bringing new challenges in the domains of automotive, wearables, smart homes, healthcare and more. Most of the research work is dealing with interoperability issues, communication protocols, discovery of devices and services, end-to-end deployment and security. This tutorial will focus on the need for IoT device management and will discuss standards like the OMA LWM2M. It will present through examples and hands- on open source tools and frameworks like the Eclipse Leshan and Kura that are developed especially for managing constrained devices.
Machine-to-Machine Communications and Internet of Things as Pillars of Smart City Initiatives Mr. Soumya Kanti Datta, EURECOM	The world population is set to grow by an estimate of 2.3 Billion by 2050 and 70% of the population will reside in cities. This will increase the challenges on city infrastructures for managing mobility, public safety, resource & waste management etc. To provide better services and improve the quality of life of citizens, the cities are currently under transition towards a higher quality of living, next-generation ICT enabled services, intelligent energy management and resource efficient economy. ICT plays a critical role in envisioning, developing and maintaining "smart cities". A plethora of such ICT activities are taking place on a wide range technologies including cloud and network edge computing, sensing and actuation, low power communication protocols, big data analytics, smarter healthcare. They can be united under the umbrella of M2M communications and Internet of Things. They bring together citizens, industries, governments and provide applications and services such as intelligent transportation systems, building automation, smarter healthcare, smart grid and more. The main purpose of the tutorial is to present how M2M communications and IoT can act as enablers of smart cities, improve urban life and build a sustainable society.
Open Interconnect Consortium - IOT Ecosystem, Specification and Framework Mr. Ravi Subramaniam and Mr. Ned Smith, Intel Corporation	The scope and variety of devices from different sources (manufacturers, makers, academics) in Internet of Things and Wearable computing need to operate as a coherent whole to deliver the full potential and business opportunity. There needs to be common semantics, protocols, mechanism and bootstrapping as part of a standard, open framework that is pervasive and weaves these devices into an interoperable ecosystem. The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) has a charter to specify and develop a framework to connect heterogeneous devices for IOT and Wearable computing. The framework objectives are to be pan data connectivity technologies (like IP, BLE, Thread, ULE etc.), be able to interoperate with other ecosystems (e.g. OneM2M, AllSeen etc.) and include data models defined by other organizations (e.g. IPSO, BLE, ZigBee etc.). The framework design abstracts these details and allows for interoperability between ecosystems siloes so that applications developers can develop once and deploy on many. The OIC also identifies and curates typical uses cases and is developing a comprehensive certification and logo program. This tutorial describes typical use cases, introduce OIC, discuss the key framework concepts and specification details, introduce Iotivity, the open- source project that has implementation of the OIC specifications.
Software-defined Networking in the Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things Context Mr. Bruno T. de Oliveira, University of São Paulo and Prof. Cintia Borges Margi, Universidade de São Paulo & Escola Politécnica	Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been envisioned as a way to reduce the complexity of network configuration and management, initially focused on wired networks. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the Internet of Things present different challenges and requirements, and thus the main approach to SDN (OpenFlow) does not apply to WSN and IoT. Software-defined Networking for Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things imposes challenges (such as the limited resources), but provides several opportunities to improve resource reuse, implement node retasking, and node and network management, as well as to ease transition to standard protocols for deployed networks. This tutorial presents an overview of SDN in WSN context, including concepts and the state-of-the-art, as well as practical implications concerning SDN implementation and deployment for WSN/IoT. To illustrate the design, implementation and evaluation process of SDN for WSN, we will use TinySDN.
Data Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things Prof. Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano	The wide adoption of wearable devices and, in general, the wide diffusion of the IoT in our daily activities are causing an explosion in the amount of data generated every day. To manage such an amount of data, cloud computing is becoming an interesting paradigm for storing, accessing, processing, and sharing information. In fact, the cloud provides high data and services availability, scalability, and elasticity at limited prices. The advantages of IoT and cloud services however do not come for free. Moving data to the cloud causes higher privacy risks and vulnerabilities. In fact, it is hard to guarantee that sensitive data remain properly protected and that users maintain the control on who can access their data when they are stored at external cloud providers. This tutorial will focus on the security and privacy risks that users undergo when relying on the cloud to enable the IoT deployment. In particular, the tutorial will consider the problem of protecting confidentiality and of guaranteeing integrity of data stored or processed by external cloud providers.