Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

1. Thomas Watteyne and Brett Warneke (Linear Technology) received the IPSO CHALLENGE 2015 People's Choice Award with the project “HeadsUp! : Monitoring the Post-surgery Position of Retinal Detachment Patients”. 3 December 2015.

2. Danny Hughes, Nelson Matthys, Fan Yang, Wilfried Daniels (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Thomas Watteyne received Third Place in the IPSO CHALLENGE 2015, with the project “MicroPnP: Harnessing the Power of IPv6 for Ultra Low Power, Zero-configuration IoT Networks”. 2 December 2015.

3. Thomas Watteyne elevated to IEEE Senior Member. August 2015.

Meeting & Seminars

Tutorials and Keynotes

1. Keynote address by Thomas Watteyne.

   Nuts and Bolts for Industrial IoT Middleware. ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference (Middleware), 7-11 December 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

2. Tutorial organized by Inria-EVA.

   OpenWSN & OpenMote: Hands-on Tutorial on Open Source Industrial IoT. Thomas Watteyne, Xavier Vilajosana, Pere Tuset. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, USA, 6-10 December 2015.

3. Tutorial organized by Inria-EVA.

   OpenWSN Tutorial [presented by Xavi Vilajosana] Workshop Internet Of Things / Equipex FIT IoT-LAB, Lille, France, 15 October 2015.

4. “Demi-heure de la science” presentation by Thomas Watteyne.

   Wireless In the Woods: Monitoring the Snow Melt Process in the Sierra Nevada. 3 September 2015, Rocquencourt, France.

5. Keynote address by Thomas Watteyne.

   The Rise of the Industrial IoT. International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets), 31 August - 2 September 2015 San Remo, Italy.

6. Invited Professor Leila Saidane, from ENSI, Tunisia. She stayed in the EVA team from 18 November to 18 December 2015 to prepare common publications and identify further research directions.

Standardization

1. Standardization meeting co-chaired by Inria-EVA

   6TiSCH working group meeting at IETF 94, 1-6 November 2015, Yokohama, Japan.

2. Standardization meeting co-chaired by Inria-EVA

   6TiSCH working group meeting at IETF 93, 19-24 July 2015, Prague, Czech Republic.

3. Hackathon organized by Inria-EVA.

   OpenWSN/6TiSCH Hackathon, Czech Republic, 19 July 2015.

4. Interop event organized by ETSI and Inria-EVA

   First ETSI 6TiSCH plugtest (interop event) in Prague, Czech Republic, 17-18 July 2015.

5. Standardization meeting co-chaired by Inria-EVA

   6TiSCH working group meeting at IETF 92, 22-27 March 2015, Dallas, TX, USA.

Organization of Workshops and Conferences

1. PEMWN 2015 international conference on Performance Evaluation and modeling in Wired and wireless Networks, cochaired by Leila Saidane, Pascale Minet and Farouk Kamoun, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, November 2015.

2. Workshop organized by Inria-EVA.

   Inria-DGA day on “Software Defined Network (SDN) & MANET” in Paris, October 2015.

Invited Professors and Celebrations

1. Pascale Minet and Paul Muhlethaler were invited to celebrate the 30 years of ENSI, Tunisia in November 2015.

2. Leila Saidane, professor at ENSI, Tunisia, stayed within the EVA team one month to initiate new common research directions.