Program

13:15 - 13:20: Opening remarks

13:20 - 14:15: Keynote

On the Information Quality of Energy-Harvesting-Based Sensing in Motion-Powered IoTs

Prof. Mahbub Hassan

University of New South Wales

Mahbub Hassan is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He co-chaired three SPIE conferences on Internet Quality of Service and co-authored the book “Engineering Internet QoS”. He is currently leading a project on human sensing from kinetic energy harvesting which won the Australian Information Industry Association’s Mobility Innovation of the Year award in New South Wales. He was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis and Osaka University. He is currently an editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial and previously served as Guest Editor for IEEE Networks and IEEE Communications Magazine. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE (2013-2016). He received PhD from Monash University, Australia, and MSc from University of Victoria, Canada, both in Computer Science. More information about Professor Hassan is available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~mahbub.

Abstract: To prolong battery life or achieve complete power autonomy, some IoT sensors are using motion energy harvesting technology that can convert any form of motion or vibration into usable electricity. With machine learning, we were able to turn the motion energy harvesting patterns into usable intelligence, such as detecting human behaviour when human motion is harvested by wearable IoTs, recognizing voice commands when energy is harvested from acoustic vibrations, authenticating users from unique motion energy patterns of human gait, or even decoding data transmitted through modulated sound. This talk will discuss the information quality we could achieve for such energy-harvesting-based sensing and some of the challenges and opportunities for improving it.

14:20 - 15:00: Session 1

- Giannis Tzouros, Vana Kalogeraki, "Efficient Scheduling of Multiple Data Transfers in Mobile Applications"
- Duc V. Le, Jacob Kamminga, Hans Scholten, Paul Havinga, "A Framework to Measure Reliance of Acoustic Latency on Smartphone Status"

15:00 - 15:30: Coffe break

15:30 - 16:30: Session 2

- Mohamed Elshenawy, Mohamed El-Darieby, Baher Abdulhai, "Automatic Imputation of Missing Highway Traffic Volume Data"
- Fausto Giunchiglia, Mattia Zeni, Enrico Bignotti, "Personal Context Recognition via Reliable Human-Machine Collaboration"
- Alireza Hassani, Alexey Medvedev, Arkady Zaslavsky, Pari Delir Haghighi, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Maria indrawan-Santiago, Sea Ling, "Context-as-a-Service Platform Exchange and Share Context in an IoT Ecosystem"

16:30 - 17:30: Panel Discussion

Topic: Information Quality in People-Centric Sensing: Why is it Important?

Moderator: Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales
Panelists:
Flora Salim, RMIT University
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business
Sajal Das, Missouri S & T