How can businesses get started with IoT? How can the sensor industry reach this audience to help?
This track features expert speakers from Arduino, Arm, Cisco, Comcast MachineQ, Google, NXP and cutting-edge application examples from AAware, Mbientlab, Nextflex and North Dakota State University to help answer these questions.
Learn:
● Practical steps on where to start in creating connected sensor applications
● Overcoming challenges to IoT production, deployment, and operation
● Applications insights in wearable, smart building and smart city
Plus:
● Networking opportunities with companies leading the space
● WIN - an Arduino MKR board to kick-start your next IoT project!
Agenda:
9:00am-9:45am | Democratizing IoT - Connecting Technology with People - Dominic Pajak, VP Business Development, Arduino
9:45am-10:15am | Android Sensors and Location - Steve Malkos, Technical Program Manager, Google
10:15am-10:45am | Flexible Hybrid Electronics: The Breakthrough IoT Technology Enabling Health and Safety in the Future - Jason Marsh, Director of Technology, NextFlex
10:45am-11:00am | Break
11:00am-11:30am | Speak Up: Your Home is Listening - Joe Gianelli, CEO & Co-Founder, Aaware Inc.
11:30am-12:00pm | Rapid IoT Prototyping - Jay Canteenwala, Marketing Manager, Mass Market Enablement, NXP Semiconductors
12:00pm-12:30pm | Making IoT Concepts a Reality: Examples in Medical, Fashion and Fitness - Laura Kassovic, CEO, MbientLab
12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch
1:30pm-2:00pm | How IoT Will Help Us Live Smarter - Rhonda Dirvin, Director, IoT and Embedded, ARM
2:00pm-2:30pm | Understanding How Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) Brings IoT To Everyone - John Brzozowski, Head of Engineering and Fellow, Comcast machineQ
2:30pm-3:30pm | Panel: The Challenge of Infinite Possibilities - What Stands in the Way of IoT Enablement?
Moderator: Dominic Pajak, VP Business Development, Arduino
Panelist: Rhonda Dirvin, Director, IoT and Embedded, ARM
Yash Prakash, Director of IoT Strategy & Planning, Cisco
Laura Kassovic, CEO, MbientLab
Sid Shaw, Senior Director, NXP Semiconductors
Jason Marsh, Director of Technology, NextFlex
3:30pm-3:45pm | Break
3:45pm-4:15pm | IoT Data – Drown in It, or Thrive on It? - Yash Prakash, Director of IoT Strategy & Planning, Cisco
4:15pm-4:45pm | Smart Cities: The Opportunities and Challenges of Connected Vehicles - Dr. Raj Bridgelall, Assistant Professor of Transportation Science & Technology, North Dakota State University
4:45pm-5:00pm | Closing Remarks - Dominic Pajak, VP Business Development, Arduino
Get acquainted with the RISC-V instruction-set architecture (ISA) in this Embedded Hands-On Workshop by bringing up an RTOS and writing some basic MicroPython scripts, all on a Microsemi Mi-V Creative Board that is configured with a 32 bit RISC-V core in an IGLOO2 FPGA. Each attendee will leave with this $99 kit. Attendees will be exposed to the ins-and-outs of the instruction set architecture (ISA) using a variety of firmware and Microsemi’s SoftConsole integrated development environment (IDE).
After designing a “Hello, World!” application, attendees will be guided through RTOS bringup with both the open-source FreeRTOS operating system and a commercial platform. From there, the tutorial will expand to adding peripherals and executing MicroPython scripts on the board’s Mi-V RV32IM core.
The development board, tools, and associated software are complimentary for attendees, making for a perfect introduction to RISC-V.
Attendees must bring:
When you combine Moore's Faster and Cheaper with Greater and Exponential, you have a dramatic opportunity. Is IoT about to explode the Market or implode the Internet?
ST’s AlgoBuilder is a complete Development environment enabling quick prototyping of solution that can be built using MEMS Sensors, microcontroller and software building blocks such as algorithm libraries with user’s own logic.
AlgoBuilder uses a simple graphical design approach (drag and drop, connect, set properties) for quick prototyping of applications for MEMS sensors and STM32 MCUs.
A wide range of function blocks are available in libraries including motion sensor algorithms, such as, sensor fusion, activity recognition and more. Function blocks can be also created by the user.
C code is generated from the graphical design and combined with binary libraries and FW template for selected STM32 microcontroller. The output of the application is fully functional FW project which can be compiled and immediately used with one of the NUCLEO board to test its functionality. Unicleo-GUI can be used to visualize, store and playback sensor data and display outputs from running firmware generated by AlgoBuilder.
The Workshop will walk you through some different examples of prototypes using the AlgoBuilder platform and ST’s development boards. All participants will receive a FREE STM32L4 Nucleo + X-NUCLEO-IKS01A2 eval boards. All Participants must have a PC running Windows (7 or 10) with administrator privileges and a USB Type-A port to participate.
All Sensors Expo attendees can attend free of charge; must opt in during registration or in the Attendee Resource Center. Space is limited; first-come, first-seated.
Customers who are building the next generation of automotive, robotic, drone, smart home, and security systems with embedded AI must efficiently manage the ever-changing and new requirements in sensing and computing. Avnet and Xilinx will present and demonstrate the latest adaptable development platforms for AI, sensor fusion, and computer vision. Join us to discover more about how to develop your own unique machine learning platforms using Xilinx adaptable intelligence.
Specific sessions include:
All Sensors Expo attendees can attend free of charge; must opt in during registration or in the Attendee Resource Center. Please note: attendees are encouraged to arrive early as there are limited seats available; opting in during registration does not guarantee entry.
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Resource Utilization (memory, CPU, network) is a primary concern when developing deeply embedded software components or deploying software into a SWAP constrained environment. Gaining insight into memory utilization within your infrastructure components is necessary for architects and engineers as they develop and deploy these systems, but this can be particularly challenging when using commercial software. Learn the tools and techniques necessary to avoid mismanaged system resources that often lead to reduced scalability, poor performance, and increased deployment costs.
Largely due to its growth and changing nature, IoT is a relatively non-commoditized field. There are many factors that can impact the value of IoT components and services that companies should be aware of to successfully compete in the field.
In recent years, the cost of sensors has decreased and the network capabilities designed to connect these sensors have evolved. As a result, businesses, campuses, and municipalities no longer face a question of whether a wide area IoT deployment is possible—instead, the biggest question is how to best implement wide area IoT solutions.
Since the requirements for every IoT application are different, a connectivity strategy that may be ideal for one application may fail for another. With the wrong network, application developers are at risk of offering an IoT solution that is either too expensive to manage or one that fails to meet objectives. LPWAN, or Low Power Wide Area Network, is a network category designed to operate with little power and send data over wide areas. LPWAN works well in situations where small amounts of data need to be sent up to 30 miles from sensors that will be in place for up to 10 years. It offers key benefits that include a long communications range, deep penetration indoors and underground, long-lasting batteries, the security of choosing a proven technology with an extensive global footprint, and cost-effective connectivity.
There are several LPWAN technologies in the market today, but one of the network protocols quickly gaining the most global traction is LoRaWAN. In its May 2017 analysis of LPWAN technologies, Gartner recommended the development of LoRa-integrated solutions to minimize long-term viability risk and maximize market share potential.
In addition to selecting a network type with the right technical capabilities to support your IoT solution, you’ll also need to select a network service provider. The attributes you’ll want to consider as you evaluate a network service provider include affordability, network maturity, reliability, and security.
Attending this session will help you:
An ecosystem is “a complex network or interconnected system,” and that is exactly what the IoT is. This presentation deconstructs a complex IoT ecosystem to help participants understand how such a system operates from the most remote sensor to network center.
Cellular connectivity is reliable, simple, and available virtually everywhere. With the advent of new services like Cat M-1, it is more affordable than ever and has very modest power requirements making it ideal for many, but not all, IoT applications. Explore the criteria for determining whether cellular is your best choice.
Discover a new and powerful method of debugging Arduino sketches that brings sketch development into a Professional Level IDE with all the extra features that come with that environment. Atmel Studio 7 allows Arduino sketches to be imported directly into a full formed C++ project allowing use of breakpoints, direct peripheral control and data watchpoints. Save Serial.println for the real data.
The LoRa Alliance and its members are on a mission to make LPWA a solution that supports global applications. This session looks at the go to market for LPWA
Real-time operating systems (RTOSes) are the foundation that many IoT devices are built upon. Connecting an RTOS to the cloud can be a challenge. Amazon FreeRTOS is a new operating system that is built upon the popular open source FreeRTOS which includes connectivity libraries such as MQTT, encryption, cloud connectivity and OTA updates. In this session, attendees will learn about the fundamentals of Amazon FreeRTOS and how they can get started using it. The session will take a hands-on approach using the STM32L475 IoT Discovery Node.
Topics Covered in this session include:
IoT has a lot of simple sensors deployed in the field and many companies believe they can optimize the processing locally. This session looks at where intelligence can be incorporated near or on the edge of devices what are the benefits.
This session discusses the importance of providing layered security co-located with fundamental device content for better overall endpoint protection and resilience. An important aspect of this is migrating mutable software roots of trust to hardware roots of trust. A strong case can be made for a hardware core root of trust for measurement (CRTM). While often existing as a software RoT, the CRTM can be vulnerable to numerous attacks and if compromised the whole system becomes "rooted" and untrustworthy. Hardware roots and layered security can mitigate these attacks.
Optical sensors represent the most common type of biosensor. With continued innovation and integration, biosensors are more accurate at low power. This session provides technical background on how optical techniques improve our everyday life and how they are used for bioanalytical applications. It discusses the common noise and error sources affecting optical sensors in mobile and wearable applications, including the effects of confounders from the environment captured in the measurement and the physiological variations among the user population.
Attendees receive an overview on using reflectometry for a pulse plethysmograph (PPG) waveform and details about the physical and physiological principals at work. They also learn about current capabilities of wearable biosensors and the future direction of optical biosensing applications.
By connecting widely scattered sensors and systems, the IoT enables creation of vast, intelligent systems. These can rely on either centralized or decentralized intelligence to make fast, highly efficient decisions and support exponential growth
Koito is the world’s leading Tier 1 automotive supplier of exterior lighting and focuses on developing new innovate products that amplify safety while also adapting to styling needs of OEMs and the end consumer. With 35000 fatalities occurring on US roads in 2016, Koito has made the decision to increase the functionality of their lights in order to support the next wave of transportation, autonomous driving. Solid state LiDAR, camera, and radars are the sensors we are focusing on adding to our lamps. This specific real estate is extremely important in order to capture a 360 degree field of view. We also host the Sunnyvale Sensor Fusion Meetup at Plug and Play once a month.
The convergence of smart technologies, evolution of passive infrared sensor technology, and significant manufacturing cost reductions has helped propel new and exciting use cases for thermal sensors. This presentation will focus on the current technologies available, general differences and crossover points for use case integration, as well as, differences between application uses for imaging sensors and traditional sensor information outputs.
The core to successful deployment is understanding the architecture around IoT. This session looks at how IoT is deployed and Configured for Success.
Both the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Working Group for Industry 4 acknowledge that security is pivotal for the Industrial IoT. To achieve it, is important to address vulnerabilities in application code, particularly where they represent potential access points to the weakest elements of the underlying architecture. This session outlines the relationship between secure middleware, separation kernel/hypervisors, and application software, and discusses techniques to ensure that applications are securely coded.
This session will highlight NXP's sensor portfolio and roadmap for the medical and industrial IoT markets. This session will also provide an overview of the key target applications in Quantified Health, Security, Smart Home and Industrial IoT domains.
Your Industrial IoT application must be fast, compact, and energy-friendly. This session talks about how to quickly find the optimum solution that balances these requirements. It discusses size vs. speed optimizations and you will learn how to write compiler-friendly code that will provide you with the best optimization to meet these goals. In addition, attendees learn which coding constructs are good (and which are not!) from an optimization point of view and how they can leverage C++ to achieve fast and compact code. This session is a must-attend for embedded developers of all abilities.
Fast and reliable transmission of sensor and actuator data is a basic requirement for Industry 4.0 and IoT. Communication under harsh industrial environment requires communication solutions apart from well-established standards in traditional networking in computer- and/or telecommunication domain. The speech gives an overview and introduction into different technologies including pros and cons for sensor data communications in industrial applications.
The blockchain of food has its greatest potential in seamlessly capturing and integrating live conditions monitoring at the farm, conditions during packaging, transportation, and delivery to end buyers of produce by sharing data and validating processes in the food supply chain to create one record of truth. The marriage of blockchain and sensors/IOT enable a potential transformation of agriculture and food that can help with traceability of food down to seconds, authenticity to rid the world of food fraud, and contribute to improvement of food quality and supply to be ready for the 9 billion mouths by 2050. Learn how ripe.io is starting this journey to leverage sensors and IOT in the world of blockchain of food to create trust and transparency in the food supply system. This session opens up attendees' thinking to new opportunities for sensors in the blockchain of food that will drive exponential growth across multiple supply chains.
As the IIoT encompasses safety- and performance-critical applications that are increasingly dependent on products controlled by software, safety, security or human life is exposed to risk if that software fails. Therefore, software quality needs to be the #1 priority. This session addresses how every development team needs a process in place to ensure code correctness and achieve application security goals prior to a product going to market.
This session will highlight NXP's automotive sensor portfolio and roadmap. The automotive sensors at NXP include Accelerometers, Gyroscope, Pressure Sensors, Tire Pressure Monitors, Angular Position Sensors and Rotational Speed Sensors. This session will provide an overview of NXP's key automotive applications such as Airbag Safety Control, Tire Pressure Monitoring, Electronic Stability Control, Passive keyless Entry, Braking, Throttle Control, Power Steering and many more.
For IoT developers, it is well known that there is no one size fits all solution for connectivity needs in the IoT. In this session, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group will give developers an in-depth look at the three major Bluetooth connectivity models that are driving the majority of the IoT, including low energy and continuous point-to-point connections, broadcast, and mesh networking. These Bluetooth connectivity models are being used in smart buildings, industries, cities, and numerous other IoT use cases. The newest connectivity model, Bluetooth mesh, allows for wireless sensor networks of tens, hundreds or thousands of devices to reliably and securely communicate. What’s more, device communication can now extend far beyond the direct radio range of a device and cover entire office blocks, airports, hospitals, or factory floors. So: What’s the right connectivity model for your IoT solution? Geared towards engineers and developers, attendees of this session will get a look “under the hood” at available Bluetooth connectivity models. They will also learn more about how they can use Bluetooth technology to generate new product offerings and revenue streams for their organizations.
So Many companies point to IoT, that the market feels like a gold rush market.However many companies have been doing some form of IoT for decades. This session is a look at what is new, old and innovative.
Whether you're new to the industry or a seasoned professional, Sensors Expo offers a range of resources to help start or advance your career. The Career Connection, located on the Expo Floor in the University Zone, provides education, networking, and a venue to make connections with potential employers and job seekers.
Submit your resume in advance to be included on the Job Board for over 300+ exhibitors to see! Contact csoucy@questex.com for more information.
Serinus is developing low cost, ultra low power gas sensors for existing and emerging markets in industrial safety, automotive and consumer electronics.
Serinus Labs, Inc., is the world`s first manufacturer of integrated silicon gas sensors, focused on developing mobile integrated gas sensing solutions for consumer and industrial applications such as in air quality monitoring, safety and preventive healthcare. Founded in 2017 and based in Berkeley, CA, Serinus Labs uses proprietary technology developed at UC Berkeley, to offer low power gas sensing solutions with significant competitive advantages over status quo in terms of size, power, sensitivity and selectivity as well as the capability for proliferation in mobile consumer tech.
As Yogi Berra said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” But if you want to know where the IoT market is heading and you believe in “the wisdom of crowds,” this survey review could be your window on tomorrow.
Too Many times, developing an IoT solution requires custom code to make the interface from the sensor to the back end systems. To solve this problem many companies have created platforms that mask the complexity and reduce the time to development. The platforms also make for better management of multiple solutions within an Enterprise. This panel discusses the customization and features involved.
Led and moderated by Roger Grace, this panel will consist of four panelists: three engineering educators and one current engineering student. The panelists will share their experiences as educators and will provide opinions as to their recommendations for their institutions and the engineering educational process in general to help better prepare both undergraduate and graduate students for successful entry into the engineering workplace. The session will conclude with an interactive Q&A.
The growth of low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) designed for the IoT has uncovered pertinent issues with existing connectivity. 2G and 3G have been perfect for the majority of M2M communications, but ‘sunsetting’ these bands will push traffic onto innovative LTE technologies. Non-cellular LPWANs have huge potential benefits, but a lack of standardization is stunting global rollout, provoking an open-source response. This session discusses the various options available, highlighting the pressing need for future-proofed connectivity.
There are many ways to speed development of a market-ready IoT product. This presentation will trace the development, from concept-to-market.
Amazon FreeRTOS is an open source real-time operating system (RTOS) based on the popular open source RTOS FreeRTOS. Amazon FreeRTOS helps IoT developers easily connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by providing a demonstration that shows how easy is to connect a device to the cloud. In this session, we will explore how this black box RTOS works by deconstructing using trace technology. We will run Amazon FreeRTOS on the STM32L475 IoT Discovery board alongside Percepio Tracealyzer and examine what tasks are required to connect to the cloud and the overhead that we can expect while using Amazon FreeRTOS.
Topics Covered in this session include:
Here at SensorsExpo there is no shortage of solutions that take advantage of IoT. The IoT Ecosystem Connectivity awards looks that the next level where Sensors and IoT combine to impact Return on Investment.
Embedded analytics makes sensors and devices smarter, enables local control and reduces the volume of raw data sent to the Cloud. This requires small analytics agents that can run within existing processor and memory capacity without impacting performance. It is challenging to provide high functionality and flexibility within a such small footprint. This presentation explains how this can be done and provides a live demo of an embedded analytics agent.
Coordinate, control, and manage your business better as the Internet of Things (IoT) connects more devices. Learn how a global automotive company implemented SAP IoT Connect 365, enterprise service, to help simplify connectivity and enhance data privacy and security.
IoT applications can vary widely in their sensor requirements. This presentation will explore a variety of motion and pressure sensors, including their respective power requirements, performance parameters, complexities and capabilities, and discuss how to choose the right one for your needs.
Embedded and IoT systems and networks remain highly vulnerable to attacks, whether malicious or accidental. These attacks result in lost personal and corporate data, legal fines, lost customer trust and lost services – or they can also simply shut down critical infrastructure, from oil and gas pipelines to manufacturing to the financial system. Despite the obvious security concerns, manufacturers worldwide continue churning out unprotected, connected things based on networks that were not intended to handle the security, traffic or things suddenly tied together. What can be done?
With Embedded Computing Design, Trusted Computing Group (TCG) will offer a session to discuss and demonstrate real-world solutions and technologies, based on widely vetted and adopted standards, to secure embedded and IoT systems, networks and data. The session will address the role and implementation of a root of trust, the development of secure software to support a root of trust and how we can embed trust and security into networks. Experts also will demonstrate examples of these technologies and talk about resources and tools to implement them.
All Sensors Expo attendees can attend free of charge; must opt in during registration or in the Attendee Resource Center. Limited space available!
The growth of IIoT, while impressive, has been impeded in recent years by several factors affecting its adoption and deployment. The success of an IIoT solution depends on a thorough understanding of these factors in the context of the IIoT application. With our impressive background in sensor solutions for IIoT applications, we have crafted a framework to facilitate understanding of critical parameters before working on an IIoT solution.
Opening your application to the Internet of Things provides potential entry points for theft, vandalism, or other mischief. For that reason, security is of paramount importance; this presentation will address a variety of approaches.
Predictive Maintenance is one of the largest areas recognized for monetization in the Industrial IoT. Advanced failure prediction through the application of predictive maintenance can significantly reduce unplanned downtime in high volume manufacturing production lines.
This session provides a real-world framework, from endpoint to cloud, incorporating machine learning and advanced analytics for migration from preventative to predictive maintenance resulting in increased manufacturing efficiency and productivity. The framework encompasses the following areas:
Each of the areas identified will be supplemented with real-world application examples in test or implemented in production facilities today.
This presentation will outline how web technologies are being combined with traditional industrial automation techniques to fuel the adoption of Industrial Internet of Things. The relationship between RESTful services, and metadata models will be explained within the context of smart sensor arrays. Ongoing standardization work will be discussed.
IoT projects can be both complicated and time-sensitive. Smart decisions regarding hardware, software, connectivity, and development tools can help developers avoid dead ends and keep projects on deadline.
This session provides an overview of existing and emerging AI techniques and helps attendees better understand the difference between time-series and signal data in sensors, how to determine the right approach for working with each, how to use the latest machine learning and AI techniques on this kind of data, and what is different if you need an embedded solution.
There are no stupid questions. The only stupid thing to do is not to have to courage to ask. This is the chance to ask the questions and get real answers as the opinions expressed are based on experience and a broad market view.
In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the field of flexible, printed, wearable and organic large-area electronics and sensors. These new electronics and sensors are fabricated on flexible plastic or paper substrates as well as on/in fabrics, which offer advantages such as mechanical flexibility, shape conformity, light weight and low profile. The judicious use of these substrates/carrier platforms enables low-cost and high-speed manufacturing of devices over large areas using printing technologies in a Roll-to-Roll production line. Targeted applications include wearables, environmental monitoring and eHealth.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded $75M to FlexTech Alliance to establish and manage a San Jose-based facility to create a Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE MII). Additionally, the recent award of $75M, also by the US DoD, with $250M in matching grants from regional governments, industry and academia for the creation of a research and development consortia, Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), headed by MIT for the development of sensors and other electronic functions has validated the potential of this technology to create “smart fabrics” for consumer and military wearable applications.
This session provides an overview of printed, flexible, stretchable, functional fabric sensors and accompanying electronics and the applications that they are currently enabling as well as their future application opportunities. Examples from current suppliers as well as highlights from leading international research organizations will be addressed.
In addition to these sensors, this session also addresses the challenges of their integration with other functional element of basic Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable applications and the manufacturing issues to create these heterogeneous and hybrid solutions from both a batch mode and continuous process. Concluding presentation topics include barriers to the successful commercialization and recommended strategies for monetization opportunities of these technologies.
This session discusses the past, today, and future of optical spectroscopy, especially for personal everyday applications. In contrast to other fast-moving IT technologies and industries, the optical spectroscopy technology and industry is decades behind due to lack of technology breakthrough from everyday applications perspective. Recently, multiple big markets show growing needs in spectral sensing capability and also require an ultra-compact size and at affordable cost. This session discusses and compares different technologies and solutions, and their strengths and potential issues. Lastly, the session attempts to forecast the future trends and market potentials of optical spectroscopy markets.
