Track: From 0 to 1

Track: From 0 to 1

Track: From 0 to 1

The design of integrated antennas for IoT devices is not as trivial as it seems. Off-the-shelf antennas are not performing as expected because different effects within the device (total dimensions, materials, housing, etc.). The proposed presentation aims to clarify typical antenna concepts and to highlight those parameters to be considered in earlier stages when designing a device with an integrated antenna.

Jordi Balcells-Ventura received the M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, in 2004 and 2011 respectively. Since 2011 he is with the department of Antennas and EM Modelling of IMST GmbH, where he is an antenna researcher engineer, involved in several industrial and public founded projects. He has experience in the complete process of antenna design, including specifications, design, electromagnetic simulations, manufacturing, measurements and final analysis. These antennas targeted different bands and applications such as RFID (13.56 MHz), VHF (127 MHz) ISM (868 MHz), GPS (1.575 GHz), Wlan (2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz), Satellite communications (X-band and Ka-band), WPAN (W-band).

Track: From 1 to 1M

Ana Bernal will focus her speech on highlighting the importance of keeping a strong Ecosystem of partners from a Business Development Strategy point of view, and she will show some successful examples.

Track: Business

Track: Business

Klemen Logar is responsible to enhance and transfer industry leadership and best practices helping companies from various fields to accomplish primary energy management goals: holistic monitoring of energy efficiency performance and reduction of energy consumption.

“Sales and marketing are my passion because it brings new challenges on daily basis and every account is different therefor thinking out of the box is crucial for success. This drives me forward to go an extra mile to help customers in growing their business and profitability”, Klemen Logar, Sales Director from Solvera Lynx

Track: Use Cases

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Track: LoRaWAN

This talk describes the development of LoRa projects at Lufthansa Industry Solutions from the very first beginning up until now. Different levels on the road of becoming a “LoRa master” and our lessons learned are presented.

Track: Use Cases

Asset condition monitoring and process control are keys to industrial efficient operation. One of the challenges is data collection from diverse manufacturing system. LoRaWAN flexible platform can enable easier deployment in a high mix small volume experimentation phase.

Track: Use Cases

Track: Use Cases

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Matt Johnson is the CEO and co-founder of Bare Conductive, which is proposing a radically new set of ways to integrate electronic intelligence into the built environment. Matt has led the company to build a technology stack of materials science, sensor hardware, and software, forming partnerships with some of the world's largest brands. Matt is also a tutor at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London where he earned an MA/MSc in Industrial Design Engineering.

Bare Conductive's technology presents compelling opportunities for smart buildings by combining the scalability of coatings and the precision of high-resolution capacitive sensors. Matt will present the fundamental technical principle of the technology alongside case studies of its use, highlighting ways in which developers can get involved.

Track: Use Cases

How big ideas from just a few people can change the future

Track: Business

LoRaWAN operates worldwide in disparate regions with many different regulatory schemes. This talk will address our regional parameters standardization efforts as well as certifications, deployment models and current hot topics in the LoRa Alliance Regional Parameters Workgroup.

David Smith
As part of the Executive Leadership Team and in conjunction with Marketing, Sales and Product Management David develops innovative hardware and software technology solutions to address customer and market needs. David began his career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Since joining MultiTech, he’s brought his unique combination of innovation and pragmatism to deliver exciting new products and related IP, significant productivity improvements and state-of-the-art processes. He is currently co-chair of the LoRa Alliance regional perameters working group and a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

Track: LoRaWAN

Alper will share the recent development of the LoRaWAN standard and gives some insight in challenges that lie ahead. Included in his talk are developments on interoperability, roaming, security, LoRaWAN 1.1

Alper Yegin is the Co-chair of the Technical Committee, Vice-Chair of the LoRa Alliance, as well as the Director of Standards and Advanced Technology Development at Actility

Track: LoRaWAN

Track: Network Deployments

Track: Network Deployments

Track: Use Cases

An independent advisor and technology evangelist, James Brehm is one of the leading voices on the state of the IoT and M2M market. Leveraging experience gained in a decade long career as an industry analyst after holding multiple marketing and customer facing roles with leading technology companies, Brehm launched James Brehm & Associates in early 2014 to serve the very specific needs of his customers – pragmatic, actionable advice and metrics grounded in reality.

Track: Business

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Track: From 1 to 1M

Track: Use Cases

Olga Wilnner showcases how Deutsche Bahn (DB) intends to use LoRaWAN for intelligent operations. Beyond remote-monitoring its assets (e. g. station clocks) with the transmission technology, Deutsche Bahn currently conducts trials to determine how LoRaWAN can support people-counting at train stations. DB will also test a LoRa-based sensor for snow and ice-detection on train platforms this winter.

Dr. Olga Willner is project lead for IoT & Data Analytics at the division of Deutsche Bahn in charge of train stations. Previously, she worked as a researcher at both ETH Zurich and MIT. The experiences she gained in that role, she now uses to explore and test innovative IoT technologies in train stations.

Track: Use Cases

Track: Use Cases

Track: Use Cases

Track: From 1 to 1M

Track: From 1 to 1M

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Track: Deployments

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Track: Business

What is the shortest path to gaining an advantage over competitors in the current days and age? Intelligent connected devices (products) and services which generate data to better understand the world around us, the consumers which use our products and The Province of Drenthe heard about LoraWAN and decided to facilitate the infrastructure needed for the next generation of products and machines. To stimulate innovation and to provide a fieldlab where every citizen living in Drenthe could experiment and benefit from the newest technology.
Adri will show you how the companies, the government, citizens and even the forestry benefit from LoraWAN.

Adri Wischmann is the founder of IoT Nederland, a Dutch Full-stack IoT-solution-provider.

Adri is an electronics engineer and a computer technician who spent the first 30 years of his career in the finance industry doing what we now would call “big data analysis on financial markets”. But as the old saying goes: “once an electronics engineer, always an electronics engineer” he stepped out of the financial industry and back into what is now called Internet-of-Things.

His company does IoT product-design and prototyping for SME’s with lots of solutions which require wireless monitoring. This is one of the reasons IoT Nederland got involved with LoraWAN in an early (pre-kickstarter) stage. Being an avid Smart City enthusiast Adri is a asked to speak at many international conferences on this topic. He has been involved in rolling out a private LoraWAN-network (also connected to TTN/TTI) for the province of Drenthe (500.000 inhabitants on 2700 km2) called DIDI (roughly translated to the Drenthe Internet of Things Initiave). He is also the driving force behind www.WhatTheHackathon.nl a small company that regularly organizes Hackathons (the next one will be on IoT & LoraWAN, March 9&10th 2019)

Track: Business

Track: Business

Track: Business

Track: Network Deployments

Track: Use Cases

Track: Use Cases

Track: Use Cases

Track: Use Cases

Track: Use Cases

Track: Business

Track: Network Deployments