Sensors Expo & Conference 2018

With a complimentary MPLAB Xpress Eval Board, attendees will learn how to develop an embedded sensor node prototype that captures humidity, temperature, and pressure data. They will speed through configuration of the Microchip microcontroller and Bosch BME280 sensor using MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) graphical programming interface. The tool will generate free libraries with simple APIs so attendees can spend time working on their solution instead of messing with registers or communication protocols.

Attendees do not need to install any tools on their computers, as this entire workshop will use the cloud based MPLAB Xpress IDE. All sensor data will be graphed on their computer via an on-board USB-to-serial adapter. Attendees will be shown how to move the solution to a wireless communication method using the same tools, transforming from a simple wired sensor to an IoT or wearable solution.

https://www.microchip.com/mplab/mplab-xpress

Attendees must bring:

• A computer with Wi-Fi, Windows/Mac/Linux OS, a standard browser and an available USB port (be sure to have the latest version of Java installed)
• A Micro USB cable
• A terminal program, such as Putty, CoolTerm, or TeraTerm

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This symposium will provide a ‘state of the union’ of the MEMS and sensors industry including a look at where the action is today for sensing capabilities across multiple vertical markets and sensor types. Having provided that foundation, what lies ahead in sensing for the remainder of this decade will be covered. Specific topics will include deeper dives into sensing technologies and the actionable information they may provide. Presentations will also cover trends in algorithms and data analytics including machine learning, deep learning and AI to provide end to end system solutions. Attending the pre-conference symposium will provide an excellent snapshot of what MEMS and sensor technologies to pay attention to today and tomorrow.

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Agenda:
9:00am-9:15am | Welcome & Introduction - Stephen Whalley, CEO, Strategic World Ventures

9:15am-9:45am | MEMS & Sensor Market Overview - Manuel Tagliavini, Principal Analyst, MEMS & Sensors, IHS Markit

9:45am-10:15am | It’s No Longer Just About the Sensor—Garage Shop Thinking in a Mature Industry - Becky Oh, CEO, PNI

10:15am-10:30am | Break

10:30am-11:00am | ASIC Design – The Missing Piece to Your MEMS & Sensors Development Puzzle - Andy Kelly, IC/Systems Architect, Cactus Semiconductor Inc.

11:00am-11:30am | MEMS Based Pressure Sensors for a Smarter Home - Omar Abed, President & CEO, Silicon Microstructures

11:30am-12:00pm | Micro-Mirrors Reflecting Brightly on New Sensing Applications - Paul Pickering, VP Business Development & CRO, Micralyne

12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch

1:00pm-2:00pm | Understanding the Basics of Machine Learning - Mike Stanley, Software Architect, NXP

2:00pm-2:30pm | Smart MEMS Pressure and Temperature Sensors to Enable IoT Industrial and Consumer HVAC Applications - Tom Nguyen, CEO, DunAn Sensing

2:30pm-2:45pm | Break

2:45pm-3:15pm | Democratizing Healthcare with Sensors and AI - Maryam Ziaei, Co-Founder & CEO, iSono Health

3:15pm-3:45pm | Rapid Prototyping of Wireless Sensor Solutions for Future Applications - David DiPaola, Managing Director, DiPaola Consulting

3:45pm-4:45pm | MEMS & Sensors for IoT Solutions
Moderator: Stephen Whalley
Panelists:
Becky Oh, CEO, PNI
Paul Pickering, VP Business Development and CRO, Micralyne
Mike Stanley, Software Architect, NXP
Maryam Ziaei, Co-Founder & CEO, iSono Health

4:45pm-5:00pm | Closing Remarks - Stephen Whalley, CEO, Strategic World Ventures

Wirelessly connected sensors pose a major problem when considering batteries as the sole source of power - battery life. Converting the available energy from a variety of sources to electricity, or energy harvesting, provides an alternative to frequently changing batteries in wireless sensing applications.

This symposium will provide an in-depth analysis of the challenges and solutions of using energy harvesting techniques of varying types for powering sensors in wireless and other ultralow power applications.

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Agenda:
9:00am-9:10am | Energy Harvesting Background - Randy Frank, President, Randy Frank & Associates, Ltd.

9:10am-10:00am | Case Studies of Vibration Energy Harvesting in Action - Karim El-Rayes, PhD. Candidate, University of Waterloo

10:00am-10:50am | Solving Energy Harvesting and Low Power Sensing Problems with Supercaps - Pierre Mars, VP Quality & Applications Engineering, CAP-XX

10:50am-11:10am | Break

11:10am-12:00pm | Power Efficient Machine Intelligence for Mobile and Edge Devices - Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, CTO, Eta Compute

12:00pm-1:20pm | Lunch

1:20pm-2:10pm | Real-World Deployments of Remote Wireless Power in Wireless Sensor Networks and Other Applications - Charles Green, Chief Operating & Technical Officer, Powercast Corporation

2:10pm-3:00pm | Cutting the Power Cord - Laurence Dunn, Chief Engineer, Hyster-Yale Group

3:00pm-3:20pm | Break

3:20pm-4:10pm | Solving the Energy Storage Problem for Miniature Sensing Applications - Jeff Sather, VP Customer Solutions, Cymbet Corporation 

4:10pm-5:00pm | Techniques and the Methodology for Reducing Processing System Power in Energy Harvesting Applications - Mark Buccini, Director, Texas Instruments

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

This symposium is unique in that it specifically addresses the topic of sensors and sensor-based systems enabled from these platforms. The extensive list of speakers, who represent the international “who’s who” in this topical area, will present several of the more interesting printed/flexible/stretchable and functional fabric sensor technologies and their applications currently under development and in production in the commercial sector as well those under development in the leading research universities and research labs around the world. In addition to these sensors, this symposium will address several other electronic functionalities e.g. batteries, memory/logic and the challenges of their packaging and integration with other functional element of basic Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable applications. It will also address various manufacturing issues, including reliability, to create these heterogeneous and hybrid solutions from both a batch mode and continuous process. Finally, barriers to the successful commercialization of these sensors and recommended strategies for market success will be presented.

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Agenda:
9:00am-9:25am | Welcome & Introduction - Roger Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates 

9:25am-9:55am | Keynote - AFFOA: Addressing Commercialization Challenges of Functional Fabrics, Electronics - Eric Spackey, CEO, Bluewater Defense, Inc. 

9:55am-10:20am | Design Considerations and Manufacturing Process Tradeoffs for the Creation of Printed Sensors and Sensor-Based Systems - Jaye Tyler, President & CEO, Si-Cal

10:20am-10:30am | Break

10:30am-10:55am | Non-Enzymatic Electrochemical Sensors Based on Wearable Carbon Textile - Siyi Cheng, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

10:55am-11:20am | Polymer Thick Film (PTF) Circuitry and Sensors - Len Allison, Business Manager – Printed Electronics, Engineered Materials Systems

11:20am-11:45am | The Role of Reliability in Functional Fabric Sensors for High Volume Applications - Allyson Hartzell, Managing Engineer, Veryst Engineering

11:45am-12:10pm | Design and Manufacturing Challenges for Flexible, Hybrid, Printed Systems Incorporating MEMS Sensors - Mary Ann Maher, Founder & CEO, SoftMEMS

12:10pm-12:55pm | Lunch

12:55pm-1:00pm | Introduction to the Afternoon Session - Roger Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates

1:00pm-1:30pm | Keynote - Recent Advances in Wearable Biomonitoring Devices - Dr. Gregory Auner, Professor, Department of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University School of Medicine

1:30pm-1:55pm | Packaging and Assembly Challenges for Sensor-Based Systems Using Flexible, Hybrid Printed Materials - Leland Spangler, President & Owner, Aspen Microsystems

1:55pm-2:20pm | Wearable Sensors for Healthcare: From the Skin to Below the Skin – Sheng Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego

2:20pm-2:45pm | Bringing Flexible Sensors for Medical Wearables to Market: A Case Study - Shawn Reese, Co-Founder & CEO, Bend Labs, and Daniel Marriott, President, Spectra Symbol

2:45pm-2:55pm | Break

2:55pm-3:20pm | Head-to-Toe Applications of Printed Tactile Sensors - Rob Podoloff, CTO, Tekscan

3:20pm-3:45pm | Ubiquitous Wearable and Disposable Chemical and Biological Sensors: Market Demands and innovative Technology Solutions - Radislav Potyrailo, Principal Scientist, GE Global Research

3:45pm-4:15pm | Flexible Sensors and Energy Harvesters - Dr. Junwen Zhong, Research Specialist, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

4:15pm-4:40pm | Spray Pattern Sensing: The Advantages, Challenges, and Methodologies of Spray Pattern and Distribution Sensing - Dr. Charles McLeod, UK Sales & Business Development, Pressure Profile Systems

4:40pm-4:45pm | Closing Remarks - Roger Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates

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:

• A computer with Wi-Fi, Windows/Linux OS, a standard browser and an available USB port (be sure to have the latest version of Java installed)
• Install SoftConsole 5.2 and the Firmware Catalog (https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/137662-softconsole-v5-2-download-for-windows)
• A terminal program, such as Putty, CoolTerm, or TeraTerm (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html)

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