imec, 6 December 2011

In this ninth work meeting, on Tuesday December 6 @ imec, the Wireless Community members will exchange their latest developments in wireless technologies for positioning.

Registration
  • Confirm your attendance by e-mail to: registration@wireless-community.be
Location

Imec – Kapeldreef 75, Leuven

Final programme
13:00 Registration
Welcome / Coffee
13:30 Wireless Community: status and plans after 3 years of successful knowledge sharing
Kris Hermus, Coordinator Wireless Community, imec
13:55 Principles behind existing & emerging wireless positioning technologies
Lieven De Strycker, Professor, KaHo Sint-Lieven Ghent
14:20 From theory to reality: challenges of localisation of patients in hospitals and nursing homes
John Gesquiere, R&D Director, Televic Group nv
14:50 Omnitrack: 1mm localisation in 1 ms and 1mW power consumption, illusion or reality?
Wim Dehaene, Professor, K.U.Leuven-ESAT
15:15 Opportunistic seamless localisation
Maarten Weyn, Docent, Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen
15:40 Coffee break with posters & demo presentations
Demo 1: Live demo of the ORCA-service: reliable, affordable and fast localization
Demo 2: Live demo of Essensium’s LOST system
Huub Tubbax and Frederic Stubbe, Essensium
Demo 3: Video-demo of UWB-based localisation
Jac Romme and Georgios Selimis, imec-NL @ Holst Centre
Poster 1: Integration of GNSS with inertial sensors for improved GPS-based positioning in difficult environments
Jan Leyssens and Jean-Marie Sleewaegen, Septentrio
Poster 2: Localisation expertise at DraMCo lab of KaHo Sint-Lieven
Lieven De Strycker, Jean-Pierre Goemaere and Jeroen Wyffels, KaHo Sint-Lieven
Poster 3: Wireless localisation for mechatronic applications
Maria Luisa Ruiz de Arbulo Gubia, Risang Gatot Yudanto, Frederik Petre (FMTC), and Marko Pellinen (VTT, Finland)
16:20 Imec’s UWB technology for localization: status and plans
Jac Romme, Senior Researcher, imec-NL @ Holst Centre
16:50 Essensium’s LOST technology for location aware wireless sensor networks
Huub Tubbax, RTLS Program Manager, Essensium
17:15 Discussion
17:45 Posters & Demos (cont’d)
Closing & networking
19:00 End of the work meeting