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).

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Get to know the Cross Domain Development Kit (XDK) from Bosch Connected Devices and Solution and experience your possibilities with its LoRa-Extension. Reiner Schmohl, the XDK Productmanager will give you an introduction to the freely programmable sensor device and professional prototyping platform. Due to its 8 sensors and the innumerable possibilities it offers, the XDK is also known as the Swiss Army Knife of IoT.

And as we from Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions always aspire to drive the Internet of things forward on a global level you will furthermore get to know one of our latest Products the Parking Lot Sensor (PLS) which also uses the LoRa Wan network and its opportunities.”

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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).

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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.

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Having investigated the available sensor solutions we quickly learned it is not just the sensor alone that makes the difference: it’s the complete IoT landscape we have considered while developing a Smart Office sensor solution. Come and hear the lessons we’ve learned during our holistic approach.

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Nowadays time to market becomes more and more important to bring a good idea as fast as possible to the market. Away from the classical model of serial development towards parallel structures in the entire process. In order to be able to quickly bring larger quantities to the market in series quality, a wide wealth of experience and a broad existing base and infrastructure are required.

The key question is: how to work in parallel on an interdisciplinary basis without errors creeping in?

Speed can only be achieved with a modular system of pre-developed solutions. This allows the processes to be accelerated, parallelized and, through experience with similar solutions, the risk of failures or errors can be minimized due to the shortened development and test time.

The key tasks include a project manager who keeps an eye on all steps, intensive reviews of all steps, immediate involvement of production in order to be able to procure the material and test equipment at an early stage.

Our customers can test standard products concurrently and create the software in the cloud.

The small but powerful development crew of comtac, led in the sense of a start-up, with a 30 year experience background, is embedded in the Amalthea Group with over 300 employees and over 60 million group sales. With the electronics producers www.gesys.ch and www.elfab.ch we have the possibility to offer you everything from one source from the development to the delivery of serial devices. Due to the close cooperation we can react very fast to adapted delivery situations and are treated with high priority within the group of companies.

In the group of companies we are able to develop small devices up to devices which have e.g. to meet high medical requirements. For our producers, quantities in the six-figure range can also be easily achieved. Through the cooperation of partners also outside Switzerland, we are able to realize manual manufacturing processes at optimal cost.

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Next generation IoT sensors will perform high performance audio-visual processing supported by AI directly on the edge to enable the next generation of battery-powered sensing devices for use cases like predictive maintenance, people counting, feature recognition in images, etc.

Alex Raimondi received the Master in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the renowned ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2002. Since 2004, he has been leading the embedded design group of Miromico in order to develop advanced hardware - from high performance FPGA systems to ultra low power sensor devices. Currently, he is the director of the embedded design group at Miromico.

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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.

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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.

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uTensor is an opensource framework that enables Machine Learning models to be deployed on extremely resource-constrained devices (limited energy, speed, bandwidth, memory and cost). We will present the inner-workings of uTensor, its applications in IoT, how you can use and contribute to it.

Neil Tan is a developer evangelist at Arm, creator of uTensor, a software and hardware hacker. He originally joined Arm as a parallel-computing engineer before becoming a Mbed enthusiast. He loves taking on cross-domain challenges and learning people’s stories.

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David will highlight the features and advantages of each LoRa IC in the SX12XX platform and how to select the best match for your application.

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From a real case of physical attacks to an innovative secure software solution to prevent it.

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In this talk, we introduce LoRa®TLS as a security solution that approaches the BSI-compliances for Smart Metering in Germany. In particular, the solution achieves Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS), which is a cryptographic feature that is in general recommendable for WAN communication.

Adding TLS (with BSI-complained cipher suites and certificates) to achieve PFS on top of and transparent to LoRaWAN is not trivial. Besides a protocol (fragmentation and scheduling, etc.) implemented on an interlayer between LoRaWAN-MAC and TLS/application, an extended analysis of the up- and down-link capacity of 868 MHz LoRaWAN is required, which is also part of the presentation by hand.

LoRa®TLS was developed in cooperation between Gelsenwasser AG and PHYSEC GmbH.

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

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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.

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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

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Investing in Industrial IoT requires a non-traditional venture capital skill-set, investment thesis, sourcing approach and acceleration model. Momenta Ventures, a leading investor in the IoT, will discuss our perspective, learnings and why we believe the LoRaWAN market is so compelling.

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Kevin will share how myDevices has empowered businesses to quickly bring IoT into the market with IoT in a Box™ - finished and customizable IoT solutions for a wide variety of vertical markets.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Teralytic uses LoRaWAN to connect farmers with real-time information on soil moisture and nutrients. Here's what they learned conducting pilots of their wireless soil probes across the world.

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MicroClimate Network is an initiative for the improved outdoor environment. Its aim is to raise awareness of global change, which is progressively impacting our everyday lives, and try to mitigate it by utilizing state-of-the-art technologies and the latest findings in applied science. MicroClimate Network is an ecosystem ranging from air temperature, relative humidity and air pressure sensors to data insights for various use cases such as urban heat island potential, frost protection, forest fires, and urban pollution. We encourage everyone to be part of the platform by connecting their own DIY device, an off-the-shelf sensor or the LoRaWAN-based MicroClimate.node sensor, which we designed and build just for the project.

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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)

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