IEEE Invited Talks -- Smart Home and IoT

[Qing....@csiro.au]

Hi all,

You are kindly invited for two talks of Smart Home and IoT by Dr. Jan Jasiewicz and Professor Anne H.H. Ngu, on Monday 30th November 2015.

Location:  Board room, Level 5, UQ HS Building, RBWH, Herston, Brisbane

Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, Monday 30th November 2015.

Talk 1:  An introduction to the design and implementation  of the US Department of Veterans Affairs' Smart Home at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa Florida

Speaker: Dr. Jan Jasiewicz

Bio:  Jan Jasiewicz holds a PhD from the University of Oregon USA exploring the neuro- and biomechanical basis of balance control in birds. From 2000 to 2008 he was the MAIC (Motor Accident Insurance Commission) Fellow in Clinical Biomechanics at QUT. From February 2009 to July 2015 he was a rehabilitation research scientist at the United States Department of Veterans’ Affair in Tampa Florida USA.

In 2010 he was successful in obtaining a $2.92 million grant to develop a Smart Home for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury, based on Ultra Wide Band tracking technology, at the James A. Hayley Veteran’s Hospital’s Polytrauma Transitional Rehabilitation Program (PTRP). The aim of the project was to develop a cognitive prosthetic and clinical monitoring system to aid the Veteran and the clinical team in the rehabilitation process.

As a result of the success of the initial project Jan was successful in obtaining additional grant funding in 2011 to expand the Smart Home concept into individual Veteran’s homes - but with the emphasis of assisting the caregiver and Veteran to continue their rehabilitation, as well as reducing care giver burden. This project was funded at $1 million per year starting in 2011.

In August 2015 Jan returned to Brisbane to be closer to his family and contribute to the field by advocating and facilitating collaborations, both nationally and internationally, in the adoption and use of Smart Home Assistive Technologies. 

Talk 2: Context-Aware IoT Middleware and Applications

Speaker: Professor Anne H.H. Ngu, Texas State University

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) provides the ability to learn and interact from billions of things that include sensors, actuators, services, and other Internet connected objects. The realization of IoT systems will enable seamless integration of the cyber-world with our physical world and will fundamentally change and empower human interaction with the world.  A key technology in the realization of IoT systems is middleware, which is usually described as a software system designed to be the intermediary between IoT devices and applications.  In this talk, I will first motivate the need for an open IoT middleware using an IoT application designed for real-time prediction of blood alcohol content using smartwatch sensor data.  I will then present Ptolemy’s (*) actor-based IoT middleware that embraces the heterogeneity of IoT devices and also supports the essential ingredients of composition, which is critical for rapid creation of IoT applications. Finally, I will present a concept demonstration of a context-aware Ptolemy's IoT middleware.

(*) Ptolemy is an actor-oriented framework for the modeling, simulating, and designing  of concurrent, real-time,  embedded devices.  It is an open source system developed by Professor Edward Lee at the University of California, Berkeley since 1996 (http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/)

Bio:   Dr. Ngu is currently a visiting scientist at CSIRO, Marsfield and a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University, USA. She received her PhD in Computer Science from University of Western Australia. Her main research interests are in information integration, Internet of Things, eHealth, business and scientific process management, and service-oriented computing.  She has worked in different countries as a research scientist, including Institute of System Science in Singapore, Tilburg University in the Netherlands, Telcordia Technologies and MCC in the United States.  From 1992-2000, she was a faculty member in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW). She worked as a summer faculty scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2003 until 2006. She has been a visiting scholar at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as well as the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley. 

We hope to see you all at the event.

regards,

Qing

Dr Qing Zhang

Senior Research Scientist

Digital Productivity and Services Flagship

CSIRO

E qing....@csiro.au T +61 7 3253 3630

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