Syllabus
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Preliminary Concepts [8 hours]
Smart Environments. Networked Embedded Systems. Paradigms for pervasive netwoking. Infrastructure-based wireless networks. Wireless Ad hoc networks. Intermittently-connected wireless networks.
Sensor Nodes [6 hours]
Physical Sensors: passive, semi-passive, and active sensors. Soft sensors. Sensor nodes. Hardware architecture. Operating systems for sensor nodes. Sensor platforms. [4 hours).
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) [30 hours]
Architecture. Application Scenarios. The energy problem. Energy harvesting and energy conservation. Data aggregation and compression. Power management. Topology control. Networking Protocols. IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Standard. Wireless Sensor Networks for Critical Applications. IEEE 802.15.4e standard.
Mobile Sensor Networks [10 hours]
Sensor networks with mobile nodes. Power management and mobile node discovery. Data transfer to mobile nodes. Routing to mobile nodes. Sensor networks with all mobile nodes. Participatory sensing
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) [6 hours]
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSAN). WSANs and CPSs. Some relevant examples (Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Grids, Intelligent Transportation Systems). WSANs and Internet of Things
Data Mining [14 hours]
Signal pre-processing, feature extraction, feature selection, classification models, performance evaluation. Sensor fusion.
Context Awareness [6 hours]
Context. Context representation. Context detection. Context-aware applications
Applications [10 hours]
Applications for smart cities (pollution monitoring, smart lighting, context-aware applications), smart mobility (parking area management, intelligent transportation systems), smart buildings (home/building automation, energy efficiency). Social sensing applications.
Industrial Seminars
As part of the course, a number of seminars, given by industry representatives and city operators, will be organized to present industrial solutions available in the field of smart cities, smart mobility, smart buildings, smart energy, etc.
References
Papers provided by instructors.