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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Silex Insight
Silex Insight offer key competences for your benefit
Since its foundation, Silex Insight is involved in hundreds of FPGA, ASIC and SoC designs. Based on our design experience with ARM architectures and AMBA/AXI based IPs, we deliver competitive SoC solutions.
Security and especially data encryption projects, developed for players of the electronic payment market, brought us advanced competences in this area. Silex Insight provides a comprehensive range of e-secure solutions and highly flexible cryptographic cores for standard algorithms like AES and Public Key systems.
Image and video processing is another key competence of the Silex Insight design team. As a logical outcome of many projects performed in the Barco group, our engineers are experts at implementing real time, high performance image processing algorithms onto dedicated hardware. This is particularly true for image and video compression, where we also offer the best in class video codecs like JPEG2000, VC-2 HQ Mpeg, Jpeg IP cores.
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Wireless technologies for IoT applications
Speaker: Mohiedinne El Soussi and Christian Bachmann
Company/ Institute: imec / Holst Centre
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
Abstract:
This demo presents imec’s activities in wireless IoT technologies, such as Sub-GHz long-range communication and cellular narrowband-IoT.
These technologies address the specific needs of IoT applications, including long range, low power, and long battery lifetime.
On our demo booth you can discuss applications for smart home, smart farming, smart cities, utility & metering, tracking, etc.
Slides: available after the workshop (Community members only, login required)
From network to solution and beyond
Speaker: Gabriele Bozzi, Innovation and Incubation Manager
Gabriele Bozzi started messing with electronics with a Philips EEkit aged 6. After a number of stints that included CERN, Apple and a handful of top500 companies he landed at Proximus as Innovation Manager. He holds a computer science degree from Pisa’s University and is actually busy finding non conventional ways to connect the dots between swarm computing and connected devices.
Company/ Institute: Proximus
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
Abstract:
You will be guided through a journey on how to build a low power IoT wireless solution with Proximus tools. Then you will be introduced to Proximus’ roadmap on LPWAN (LoRa) and the innovation projects that will enable a digital eco-system around IoT: Simple devices, EnCo, TelCo APIs, marketplace, myThings enablers.
Slides: click here to download (Community members only, login required)
Testbed for IoT radio performance testing
Speaker: Frank Wybouw
Company/ Institute: Tucana
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
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We demonstrate a testbed that allows for realistic radiated radio performance testing in a controlled and repeatable way, with controlled attenuation, mobility and interference.
The testbed can be configured for LoRa type topology but also for meshed topologies, e.g. Thread by addition of Octobox cages.
Slides: available after the workshop (Community members only, login required)
An international view on the ecosystem and IOT use cases powered by LoRa
Speaker: Bram Senave
Bram Senave is more than 10 years active in the electronics market from semiconductors to embedded and wireless technologies.
He specialises in the wirelless market from a technical point as well from a business point of view.
Company/ Institute: Actility
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
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Acility is a leader in LoRa Network Technology, partnering with Operators and Utilities to facilitate new business models in a connected world (IoT infrastructure and Smart Grid applications). Actility ThingPark™ is a complete IoT solution, combining LPWA networking, an IoT data management platform, and an extensive ecosystem of fully interoperable devices and applications.
Actility is one of the founders of the LoRa alliance which was launched in 2015, in order to drive the success and guarantee the adoption of the LoRaWAN protocol. The LoRa alliance has more than 200 members in the meanwhile. This ecosystem will enable product availability, and will ensure interoperability through the LoRaWAN™ Certification Program.
The applications where LoRa is applicable are endless, but the main applications driving the current network deployments are in intelligent building, Smart Metering, Smart City, logistics & supply chain, Smart industries & factories, wearables and agriculture.
Our vision on IoT will be shared:
- Status and role of the lora-alliance after one year
- the ecosystem and the business model behind it
- the LoRa ongoing projects.
Slides: click here to download part1 and part2 of the slides (Community members only, login required
MicroPnP: Plug-and-Play Peripherals for the Internet-of-Things with Low Power Connectivity
Speaker: Fan Yang, Christophe Huygens, Sam Michiels and Danny Hughes
Company/ Institute: iMinds-DistriNet/KU Leuven
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
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This demonstration showcases MicroPnP, a complete hardware and software stack for building zero-configuration plug-and-play IoT applications. MicroPnP is the first IoT platform to support true plug and play integration of embedded sensors and actuators, while maintaining a 10 year battery life. The live demonstration shows two low-power network technologies: LoRa provides low-power, long range communication, while SmartMesh-IP provides an ultra reliable and extensible mesh network based on IEEE-802.15.4.
Slides: available after the workshop (Community members only, login required)
City of Things: bringing the Internet of Things to the city
Speaker: Bart Lannoo, Operational Lead MOSAIC Research Group
Bart Lannoo is operational lead of the MOSAIC research group at the University of Antwerp and iMinds. He received a M.Sc. degree in electro-technical engineering and a Ph.D. degree from Ghent University (Belgium) in July 2002 and May 2008, respectively. Before joining University of Antwerp in April 2016, he has been working at Ghent University and iMinds, where his main research interests were in the field of fixed and wireless access networks, focusing on MAC protocols, Green ICT and techno-economics. He has been involved in several national and European research projects dealing with various topics like optical access, wireless (city) networks, energy-efficient network design and smart manufacturing. He is author or co-author of more than 100 international publications, both in journals and in proceedings of conferences.
Company/ Institute: University of Antwerp – iMinds
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
Abstract:
The IoT landscape is covered with a myriad of wireless technologies, each with their own capabilities, application domains, strengths and weaknesses. When building your IoT solution: should you go for a Low Power WAN alternative (e.g., LoRa, DASH7) or are the more consumer oriented technologies such as WiFi and Bluetooth sufficient. And what happens if you combine them all together? In this talk, we will discuss how the City of Things testbed can be used to answer these questions. City of Things is a heterogeneous multi-technology testbed for performing network and data experiments, which can scale up to the city level. We will give an overview of the current status of the testbed, showcase the first experiments and give you some information on how you can participate.
Slides: click here to download (Community members only, login required)
Smart long range and low power wireless sensor demonstration
Speaker: Tom De Ryck and Pieter De Mil
Company/ Institute: allora Factory
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
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allóra Factory develops and manufactures smart wireless sensors based on the LoRa technology.
Our partnerships with leading telecom operators like Proximus and KPN, and platform providers like Actility and Loriot, ease the integration with your cloud application.
Close relationship with imec and their EDM team guarantees high quality products.
Slides: available after the workshop (Community members only, login required)
Engie and SigFox in Belgium: a future proof combination
Speaker: Dirk Indigne, CEO
Company/ Institute: Engie M2M
Event: 21st work meeting
Date: 27 April 2016
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Engie M2M was founded in June 2015 as a separate entity of Engie group in order to build, maintain and commercialize the first Public Network in Belgium, dedicated to the Internet of Things.
Through strong alliances with key market players, Engie has succeeded in delivering solid network coverage in a couple of months time. Status update of the network and the business model will be presented along with some inspiring Belgian use cases.
Slides: click here to download (Community members only, login required)