[Tccc] Call for Extended Abstracts:1st Workshop on the Internet of Things (IOT 2013) in South Africa
Muthoni Masinde
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Sun Jul 28 08:07:49 EDT 2013
1st
Workshop On The Internet Of Things (IOT 2013)
In Conjunction with SAICSIT 2013
(http://www.ict.ru.ac.za/saicsit2013/workshops.html)
East London, South Africa, OCTOBER 7, 2013
Call for extended
abstracts
Todays internet is based on human oriented
applications (web browsing, Email checking, social network applications, video
streaming, etc.). The future of internet is predicted to be focusing on the
interconnection of objects, or what is called the internet of things. That is,
the Internet will serve as a seamless fabric and networked objects, where
computers and phones that we currently use as the only mean to connect to
internet will be augmented by other autonomous objects, such as RFID
technology, sensor networks, actuators, etc., which will connect to internet
and exchange information without involving the user. This is to provide the
user with a variety of real world services.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly gaining
ground in the arena of wireless telecommunications and computer science, and
attracting the research community in related fields. The workshop is organized
in the context of research project between university of Cape town, RSA, and
CERIST research centre, Algeria, co-funded by NRSF and DGRSDT. The aim is to
bring researchers working on topics related to the on-going project in
particular, and the arena of IoT in general, both from academia and research,
to discuss and current contributions and results, and debate future
perspectives.
All papers will be published in an abstract booklet
that will be distributed at the workshop venue. Extended versions of selected
papers will be published, after a rigorous reviewing process, as chapters in a
book with ISBN published by UNESCO (pending approval) or papers in an
international journal (pending approval).
Topics
Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:
* Communication protocols for the IoT
* System architectures for the IoT
* Emerging Services/middlewares on the IoT
* Integration of wireless, wired, and hybrid networks
* Service platforms for the IoT
* Enabling technologies and standards for the IoT
* Mobility management
* Context awareness
* Sustainable design
* Location-based services and geographic information systems
* Experimental prototypes and pilots; large-scale testbed
infrastructures
* Applications, including: eHealth/mHealth; Smart Grid/Smart Metering,
Smart House, smartCity connected consumer, fleet management, surveillance,
Intelligent Transportation Systems
* Privacy and security
* Interconnection between IP and sensor networks
* Interconnection between RFID and sensor networks
* Machine to Machine communications
* Energy efficiency in smart object scenarios
* IoT management and interoperability
* Participatory and global sensing
* Performance measurement and tuning, scalability
* Simulation and analytical studies
* Testbed, prototype, and practical systems
* White Spaces and IoT
* IoT for development (IoT4D)
Steering committee
* Antoine Bagula, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
* Anne Kayem, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
* Djamel Djenouri, CERIST, Algeria.
* Marco Zennaro, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy.
* Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
* Muthoni Masinde, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
* Jacob Wikner, Linkoping University, Sweden.
Important Dates
* Abstract Submission Deadline: August 15, 2013
* Acceptance/Rejection Notification:September 05, 2013
* Camera ready copy: September 15, 2013
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