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Creating and Capturing Value in the MEMS and Sensors Ecosystem

27 Jun 17
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Pre-Conference Symposium

Speaker(s): Abhinav Khushraj ; Alissa Fitzgerald, Ph.D ; Arye Lipman ; Brian O'Rourke ; Ingolf Leidert ; Marcellino Gemelli ; Marco Kircher ; Mark-Eric Jones ; Michelle Kelsey ; Natalie Wisniewski, Ph.D ; Peter Hartwell
This pre-conference symposium presented by MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MSIG) will provide an overview of the MEMS and sensors industry including... More...

Embedded Technology - Designing for the Industrial IoT

27 Jun 17
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Pre-Conference Symposium

Speaker(s): Amar Parmar ; Brent Nelson ; Charles J. Lord, PE ; Ed Kuzemchak ; Eric Bauer ; Guy Fedorkow ; Maciej Kranz ; Terry Dunlap ; Tobin J.M. Richardson ; Wil Florentino
If you’re designing systems, components, software, or any other facet of the Industrial Internet of Things (aka Industry 4.0), you know that failur... More...

Energy Harvesting and Energy-Efficient Power Solutions for Sensor Applications - Tutorials

27 Jun 17
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Pre-Conference Symposium

Speaker(s): Christian Pennisi ; Geoffroy Gosset ; Jeff Sather ; Karim El-Rayes ; Mark Buccini ; Pierre Mars ; Randy Frank ; Robert Andosca ; SungUn Chang ; Terry Ray Pennisi
Sensors are among the mostly frequently cited additions to connectivity in the Internet of Things (IoT) and certainly are one of the key enablers f... More...

IoT Lifestyle: Invisible Technology Moving in Your Home, Your Car, Your Office

27 Jun 17
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Pre-Conference Symposium

Speaker(s): Ben Kearns ; Benjamin Cisneros ; Charlene Marini ; Curt Bramel ; Drake Margiotta ; Edoardo Gallizio ; Guillaume Girardin ; Jim McGregor ; Peter Cooney ; Pushkar Ranjan ; Scott Nelson ; Steven Schmidt ; Will Tu
Mark Weiser wrote in 1991 "The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until th... More...

Printed, Flexible, Stretchable and Functional Fabric Sensors and Systems: Technologies and Applications for Wearable and IoT Applications

27 Jun 17
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Pre-Conference Symposium

Speaker(s): Ahmed Busnaina ; Alper Bozkurt ; Anwar Mohammed ; Binu Baby Narakathu ; Carlo Guareschi ; Christine Kallmayer ; Jae Son ; Jani Mantyjarvi ; John Volakis ; Miguel Ridao Granado ; Radislav Potyrailo ; Rob Podoloff ; Roger Grace ; Susana Cardoso de Freitas ; Sywert Brongersma
The availability of sensors that can take the shape of their imposed working environment has existed for quite some time with the earliest being fo... More...

A Market Forecast for Sensors in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Technologies

28 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Emerging Technologies

Speaker(s): Jennifer Colegrove
Dr. Colegrove will discuss different devices as well as different Human-machine interaction (HMI) sensor technologies, including touch sensor, voic... More...

Addressing Agrotech and Food Industry Challenges with Sensors

28 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Novel Sensor Applications

Speaker(s): Rob O'Reilly
One of the challenges of the sensors industry for agriculture and food applications is its fragmentation. We are witnessing a proliferation of envi... More...

How 5G Enables IoT

28 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Jim McGregor
While the vision for IoT has been well defined, implementations have not lived up to expectations. One key reason is that lack of wide area network... More...

MEMS Sensors: What's Next?

28 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: MEMS & Sensors

Speaker(s): Jean-Philippe Polizzi
With the legacy MEMS (accelerometers, gyrometers, pressure sensors) being commoditized, all eyes are looking for new sensors capable of restoring m... More...

Minimizing the Complexity of Hardware, Code, and Cloud Development for Embedded Devices

28 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design, Sensors & Embedded Systems Design, Sensors Data

Speaker(s): Mihir Dani
To develop and deploy wireless embedded devices usually requires outside developers for hardware, code development, and a cloud development and imp... More...

Remote and Inaccessible Wireless Sensor Strategy to Achieve IoT Long Life Battery Goals

28 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: EH/Power

Speaker(s): Herman Morales
While most IoT attention is focused on high-volume markets served by standards-based solutions, many large market niches exist for where it is cruc... More...

Array of Things and the Waggle Platform: Instruments for Urban Measure and Analysis

28 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Novel Sensor Applications

Speaker(s): Charles Catlett
Based on Argonne's Waggle embedded sensing and computing platform, Array of Things is in the process of installing a 500-node sensor and deep-learn... More...

Battery-Free Wireless Embedded Strain Sensing - Technology Advancements and Application Examples

28 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: EH/Power

Speaker(s): Scott Dalgleish
The session will explain RFID battery-free RFID sensing and related technologies such as long-life battery assisted RFID sensing and RFID battery a... More...

City-Scale Sensor Networks & Real World Challenges

28 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Matt Willenbrink
Forward-thinking leaders of cities all over the world, big and small, are considering the potential of Internet of Things and Big Data technologies... More...

Deep Learning Based Vision Al for Emotion Recognition from Facial Micro-Expressions

28 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Emerging Technologies

Speaker(s): Modar Alaoui
This session will reveal a novel use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as a Deep Learning architecture towards the creation of a facial expre... More...

Disruptive MEMS Temperature Sensing Technology for IoTs

28 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: MEMS & Sensors

Speaker(s): Sam Maddalena ; Wouter Leten
Smart buildings and mobile health are, at first sight, two different trends within IoT. However, at sensor level they converge into a stringent nee... More...

Getting Started with an RTOS on the Raspberry Pi

28 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Daniel Morris
There's a lot of dogma and disinformation around using an RTOS. When, if at all, is one needed? Aren't they complex, greedy, expensive? How or wher... More...

A New Type of Neural Network for Anomaly Detection in Sensor Data

28 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Emerging Technologies

We are living in an area with an ever growing number of sensors, where streaming analytics and machine learning are critical.  But what does it tak... More...

Get Your IoT Head Out of the Clouds and Into the Fog

28 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Robert Lutz
Just as you are embracing the benefits of IoT Cloud computing, now solutions are transitioning to the Fog.  Should you?  This session will provide ... More...

RTOS Design Techniques for Sensor Based Systems

28 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Jacob Beningo
Embedded Systems are becoming more complex and requiring more advanced design techniques in order to maintain the systems real-time performance. Em... More...

Solid State LiDAR: Enabling Mass Adoption in Multiple Industry Sectors

28 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Novel Sensor Applications

Speaker(s): Louay Eldada
Demand for high resolution, long-range and high accuracy object detection capability in low visibility, are factors driving the development and ado... More...

Utilizing Ultra-Low Power MEMS Sensors to Realize Intelligent Real-Time Asset Health Monitoring

28 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: MEMS & Sensors

Speaker(s): Wayne Meyer
Attendees will explore how intelligent IoT asset health monitoring solutions involving ultra-low power MEMS sensors, placed on a variety of transpo... More...

Zero Pin Sensors - The Path to Self-Powered Sensor Nodes

28 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: EH/Power

Speaker(s): Michelle Farrington ; Paul Perrault
A self-powered system affords the user tremendous freedom when commissioning a new wireless sensor network.  Without the concern for periodic maint... More...

An Approach to Intelligent Distributed IoT

28 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Tom Freund
For some applications, the most effective way to implement IoT is to rely on direct dialogues between the sensors and actuators within an IoT deplo... More...

Low Power Microphone Acquisition and Processing for Always on Applications Based on Microcontrollers

28 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: MEMS & Sensors

Speaker(s): Luca Spelgatti
This session will focus on the tradeoff between performance and low power consumption in embedded IoT platforms used for always on microphone acqui... More...

Meeting Sensor Requirements In Industry 4.0 & Smart Vehicle Applications With Extended Temperature Range Solid State Batteries

28 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Novel Sensor Applications

Speaker(s): Denis Pasero
Ilika has applied its heritage of patented materials discovery with leading OEMs, to develop solid state batteries which enable the powering of aut... More...

Moving AI Into the Physical World with Industrial IoT Systems

28 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Emerging Technologies

Speaker(s): Adam Kell ; Andrew Scheuermann ; Prateek Joshi
AI has been changing the digital landscape for several years now, but new companies are focused on pushing these developments into the physical wor... More...

Overcoming Battery Life: The Next Generation of Sensors

28 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: EH/Power

Speaker(s): Ben Garcia
Among the most pressing challenges toward realizing the full potential of the global IoT is the question of power for the billions of battery-opera... More...

Secure Network Infrastructure for Industrial IoT

28 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Ron Victor
This session will focus on core network infrastructure issues related to securely transporting data from millions of Industrial sensors in a slew o... More...

Is Your Data Acquisition System Ready for Big Analog Data?

28 Jun 17
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Anjelica Warren
With the proliferation of sensing and networking technologies, adding measurements to systems has never been easier and more cost-effective. This o... More...

New Generation of Thermal Activity Sensors Impacts Smart Building and IoT Markets

28 Jun 17
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Tracks: Novel Sensor Applications

Speaker(s): Cyrille Trouilleau
Cyrille Trouilleau will discuss how thermal activity sensors will significantly improve the ability of smart building applications and Internet of ... More...

Sensing and IoT Ecosystem: Opportunities at a National Research Library

28 Jun 17
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Tracks: Emerging Technologies

Speaker(s): Dr. Osman Ahmed
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a federally funded research and development center, focuses on basic research that advances the front... More...

Solving IoT Cost, Size, and Power Headaches, Evolving Designs with Configurable Mixed-Signal Devices

28 Jun 17
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): David Chow
Attendees will learn about how to reduce development time and cost through the use of flexible and configurable mixed-signal devices.  Understand t... More...

Ultra-Wide Angle MEMS Spatial Light Modulator for LIDAR

28 Jun 17
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Tracks: MEMS & Sensors

Speaker(s): Dr. Youmin Wang ; Youmin Wang
Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) is a key enabling technology for self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles. Optical phased arrays (OPA) a... More...

Wireless Power, Energy Harvesting, Power Management Solutions for Sensors and IoT

28 Jun 17
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Tracks: EH/Power

Speaker(s): Charles Greene
Devices can be utilized in areas that previously could not accept sensors due to wired connections or loss of power. Join in discussing the advance... More...

Sensors, Robots, and Humans: Working Together to Explore the Solar System

29 Jun 17
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Speaker(s): Vytas SunSpiral
Exploration of the Solar System is fundamentally driven by sensors.  First and foremost, there are the science instruments which are designed to an... More...

ARMv8-M trustZone Security for Coretx-M Processors

29 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Robert Boys
Security has become an important issue for many microprocessor systems especially those IoT platforms connected to the Internet. Sensors need to be... More...

Commercialization Opportunities and Strategies for Printed, Flexible, Stretchable and Functional Fabric Sensors in Wearables and Other Applications

29 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Flexible & Wearable

Speaker(s): Roger Grace
In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the field of flexible, printed and organic large-area electronics and sensors. These new p... More...

Integrated Optical Sensors Challenges and Solutions

29 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Optical Sensing & Detection

Speaker(s): Lutz Porombka ; Marko Mai
Target detection, distance and brightness measurements are basic requirements in industrial automation and safety. Industry 4.0 demands smart solut... More...

Sensor Market Analysis

29 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Guillaume Girardin
From smartphone to smart cities, the IoT world has been built on the great promise of the ability of sensing anything anywhere. How the sensing mar... More...

Ultrafast, Highly Sensitive Printed Moisture Sensors for High-Speed Sensing Applications

29 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Measurement & Detection

Speaker(s): Vijaya Kayastha
An ultra-fast, printed moisture sensor, with high moisture sensitivity, will be presented. These carbon-based, resistive-type sensors have almost i... More...

Wearable Sensors & Performance Biomechanics in MLB, NHL, NBA, NFL and on the Assembly Line

29 Jun 17
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Tracks: Sensors Data & Data Analytics

Speaker(s): Ben Hansen ; Orrin Bigelow
Join Ben Hansen to learn how data and analytics from wearables allow for performance and injury prevention discussions to be had. Attendees will ex... More...

A Wealth of Data: Sensors in Black Boxes - Planes, Drones & Automobiles

29 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Sensors Data & Data Analytics

Speaker(s): Greg Berkin
In today's transportation environment, systems are growing increasingly more connected and inter-operable driving the real-time demand for intellig... More...

Adding a Voice Command Interface to Battery-Powered Wearable Fitness, Medical and Wearable Products

29 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Flexible & Wearable

Speaker(s): Mark Buccini
Consumers have become more comfortable using voice to interact with technology as this interface has become common place on higher-end electronics ... More...

Artificial Intelligence with Sensor and Signal Data

29 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Stuart Feffer
Attendees will receive a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in this fast emerging technology of Artificial Intelligence. Applicable case studies that... More...

Edge Computing IoT Architectures for Tomorrow's Industrial Control Systems

29 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Neal Calanni
Moving an enterprise from traditional silos or monolithic solutions to architectures that are flexible and open in a way that data consumers and pr... More...

How to Solve the Six Most Common Sensor Challenges

29 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Optical Sensing & Detection

Speaker(s): Walter Brooks
Analog designers require solutions to highly complex sensing problems in today’s world. Challenges like ambient light, reliable presence detection,... More...

Lessons from the Design, Development and Test of a Signal Conditioned Ultra Low Pressure Sensor

29 Jun 17
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tracks: Measurement & Detection

Speaker(s): Gertjan Van Sprakelaar
Sensors and ASIC’s can each be optimized individually for performance, but to achieve the best overall system performance all factors, including th... More...

A Sensor Ecosystem For Indoor Air Quality

29 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Measurement & Detection

Speaker(s): Paul Wilson
Humans spend an overwhelming majority of time indoors, but not until very recently has the case for indoor air quality monitoring been recognized a... More...

Embedded Machine Learning Accelerating Innovation for the IoT Long-tail

29 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Nicolas Sauvage
Attendees will learn how best Embedded Machine Learning with Sensing Fusion can enable the upcoming innovative use-cases from the highly fragmented... More...

Line Confocal Imaging Sensors - New Technology for Measuring 3D Surface Features at Sub-Micron Resolution

29 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Optical Sensing & Detection

Speaker(s): Juha Saily
This session introduces the Line Confocal Imaging (LCI) method and sensors that enable high-speed 3D measurement of highly reflective, transparent,... More...

Optical Heart Rate Monitoring: System Design for Wearable Consumer and Medical Devices

29 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Flexible & Wearable

Speaker(s): Craig Easson
This seminar will discuss the basic principles of photoplethysmography (PPG), the physiology involved and methods for measurement. Attendees consid... More...

Short Range, Low Power RADAR IoT Sensor

29 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Rob Frizzell
This session will educate attendees about using low power RADAR sensors for a number of IoT applications.  RADAR sensors can provide information ab... More...

The Value of Water and Data

29 Jun 17
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM

Tracks: Sensors Data & Data Analytics

Speaker(s): Dr. Yair Poleg ; Sivan Cohen
The emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is a response to the need for enormous amounts of data to monitor remote infrastru... More...

Data Aquisition and Analysis with Linux

29 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Sensors & Embedded Systems Design

Speaker(s): Dan Naughton
Gain an overview of the Linux Control and Measurement Interface for Data Acquisition and Analysis while learning the basics of data acquisition and... More...

How Harsh/Critical Environments Are Driving Sensor Innovation

29 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Measurement & Detection

Speaker(s): Karmjit Sidhu
Miniaturization, mobility and combined technologies make environments using sensors extremely challenging, but its opened new worlds, enabling us t... More...

Next Generation Biometric Sensing in Wearable Devices

29 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Flexible & Wearable

Speaker(s): Colin Tompkins
Attendees will learn considerations of adding biometric sensors to wearable hardware designs, including optical and skin temperature sensor selecti... More...

Smart, Cheap, and Discrete: A Data Love Story Gets Foggy (…And We're Better for It)

29 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Sensors Data & Data Analytics

Speaker(s): Damian Black
Sensors and Analytics have been dating for a while and together producing a lot of data. IoT loves Analytics (but only when it's at its best). It a... More...

Ultra Wideband (UWB) Ranging and Localization for Vehicle Autonomy and Collision Avoidance in GNSS-Denied Areas

29 Jun 17
2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: IoT & Wireless

Speaker(s): Rachel Reinhardt
Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio ranging sensors enable precise localization in areas where GNSS either struggles or doesn’t work at all indoors, dense m... More...