40 participants ON SITE that will have the full experience
Keynotes and Talks live
Poster session participation for networking with other PhD candidates
Networking Events
Sightseeing
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects a plethora of devices. It allows programmers to interact with the physical environment. This brings many fascinating challenges and opportunities but also risks.
In our summer school, we will introduce you to the fascinating world of the Industrial Internet of Things, the IoT that makes factories run. You will learn about many different aspects from device manufacturing over communication protocol and semantics to application management.
This year’s edition has the title “IoT meets Autonomy“. Many of the computer systems around us work autonomously. They simply run without human intervention, adapt to their environment, or even evolve with mechanisms such as Machine Learning.Implementing such functionality can be challenging. These challenges are not only technical but also ethical, societal, juridic, etc. In this years edition, we will explore different forms of autonomy using the IoT as use case. Topics include but are not limited to Data Analytics, Machine Learning, IoT protocols, self-*, cybersecurity.
Future-IoT.org connects academia and industry. Therefore, the series is in collaboration with leading industry partners from France and Germany including Airbus, ArianeGroup, Atos, AWS, elm.leblanc, Siemens, and several other industrial partners.
The Future IoT summer school offers an exciting mix of lectures, hands-on tutorials, and hackathon challenges. There is also a lot of room for getting to know each other, networking, and exploring our hosting city!
It is a great idea to stay over the weekend to explore Berlin a bit.
Challenges in the 5th edition (2022)
Future-IoT traditionally embeds a hackathon. You will work in teams of about 4 people. Your team will start working on one challenge from the beginning of August. After the distributed off-site preparation, you will have 24h (Wed-Fri) for working on-site with the others on your Proof-of-Concept. Friday you pitch your result in front of our expert jury, and the best project is selected.
For the moment we have the following challenges confirmed:
Siemens – Autonomous Guided Vehicles for the factory of the future
A guided robot.
A helping Hand – Flexible grasping using AI. In the field of mobile robotics we want to extend the abilities of our machines with robot arms that we made more clever by using an existing framework. Each arm can become an AI king by adding a camera and practice grasping new objects by themselves. You can start building your idea on what a robot arm was always meant to do. Trust on this awesome AI-detection Algorithm and focus one your vision.
IMT/AWS – Automated Analysis and Synthesis of Multimedia Data
Used technology (proposal): video stream, voice recognition, image magick, twitter, youtube, facebook, linkedin, face recognition, python, shell, ffmpeg
A possible outcome based on sampled stream images and recognized speech.
Many data sources exist. FIOT events are also producing a lot of data. The goal of this challenge is making use of the stream data. Your task will be analyzing the data to identify iconic moments. To do so, the idea is to transcribe what is said and create images with text overlay for sharing on social media. AWS face recognition technology can help for identifying speakers, audience, the right part of the image etc.
A possible approach could be generating possible image text combination while allowing editing of the text for possible corrections. A human user could then select which ones to share and the system would take care of the distribution.
A first prototype you can use as a starting point for this challenge is already existing. We are looking forward to your creative approaches that you can test already during the event.
IMT – Autonomous Machine-to-Human Signaling via Integration of low-cost IoT Hardware via Bluetooth and Infrared
A key principle of the IoT are mash-ups: entities that are meant to be connected (or not) get connected. In this challenge we want to explore how off-the-shelf devices with different communication technologies can be connected to a system.
Bluetooth configurable audio meters that should be turned into additional meaningful signals.
Goal of the project: Create software for the raspberry pi that can communicate via bluetooth with the above lights and via infrared with a programmable alarm clock. At the beginning of a talk, the clock should send the remaining time to the alarm clock countdown and start it. The volume meters can be configured via bluetooth. They should be integrated in a way that they change color throughout the talk depending on the remaining time, e.g. turning more red towards the end.. This way the speaker and the audience know how much time is left.
There is already some preparatory work done regarding the hardware and software. The clock is already controllable via an MQTT to infrared gateway. For the bluetooth you will have to revers engineer the protocol, e.g. by reading the commands sent by the according app. You will have time to develop additional cool features to the described ones. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas implemented!
If you see use for addition al technology such as face recognition with AWS etc. you will have the experts on site.
FUB / ECDF – IoT Fleet Management
Motivation Security and management of low power IoT networks at large scale poses multiple challenges. Whereas single devices can be configured manually one by one, scaling up requires new layers of abstraction to conveniently orchestrate and autoconfigure fleet of devices.
Challenges The challenge focuses primarily on drafting an architecture for managing a fleet of low-power networked IoT devices, building atop open communication standards as much as possible. The targeted devices are all low-power devices (microcontrollers such as described below) that have limited network capabilities and resources.
The provided architecture would allow for:
Monitoring the network and the devices. Configuration of multiple and individual devices. Collaborative measurements and actuation between devices. Spreading software/firmware updates throughout the network. Autonomous/automatic reconfiguration of the fleet to match high-level requirements Expected outcome A drafted architecture of the software around the challenge (slideware). The architecture must include some form of orchestration, allowing for configuration and remote updating of the devices.
Ideally, a small Proof of Concept setup using real IoT hardware connecting server-side and device-side software is within scope, but optional due to time limitation of the challenge.
Starting Point / Building Blocks For hands-on aspects we’d provide multiple IoT low-power boards (nRF52840dk boards + sensors). A code base using RIOT would be provided to run a small demo network on them with each device running a small CoAP server and a registry to communicate with them. This would provide a starting point for the participants for a demonstrator of their architecture.
Prerequisite skills Knowledge of computer networks Knowledge of embedded systems with microcontrollers such as the Arduino Experience with programming languages such as C, Python, Go Not required, but bonus
Experience with embedded operating systems such as RIOT, Zephyr or FreeRTOS Experience with constrained protocols and data formats such as CoAP and CBOR
Acklio/AWS – Integration of an Acklio LoraWAN Gateway with the AWS Smart Territory Framework
Used technology: Lora, AWS
This challenge is about integrating an Acklio LoraWAN gateway into the cloud, more particular into the AWS Smart Territory Framework.
The place to be (Berlin 2022)
Our location in 2022: the ECDF.
The school will take place in the Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, Germany
We are literally in the center of the center of the town, a few meters from the Brandenburg gate:
The X is where we are located.
Speakers & Organizers 2022
Organizers
Marc-Oliver Pahl
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
Fabian Rhein
Fabian Rhein, PhD, Research and Innovation Ecosystem Munich & Karlsruhe at Siemens
Dr. Fabian Rhein started at Siemens Technology as a PhD candidate in the department of Material Design and Manufacturing Technologies in 2013. After 3 years, he joined University Relations as a strategic consultant and is now shaping the Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem (Siemens RIE) of Munich and Karlsruhe. Inside the Siemens RIE he is responsible for collaborations and knowledge interchange with universities, like the TUM, LMU, and KIT, research institutes, startups and companies.
Further Fabian Rhein is the Siemens Technology contact person for the Siemens PhD Network (SPN) and the PostDoc@Siemens program.
Tim Kawalun (Foto: ECDF/PR/Felix Noak)
Tim Kawalun, Coordinator Events & Cooperation at Einstein Center Digital Future
Tim Kawalun graduated in geography in Berlin in 2009 and has been working in science management ever since at different universities. Since 2018, he works at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) as coordinator for events and collaborations of the public-private partnership project that focuses on digital transformation research.
Sebastian Steinhorst (Foto: Andreas Heddergott)
Sebastian Steinhorst, PhD, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany
Sebastian Steinhorst is professor for Embedded Systems and Internet of Things at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of TUM. The research of Prof. Steinhorst centers around design methodology and the hardware/software co-design of distributed embedded systems for use in Internet of Things, automotive and smart energy applications.
Speakers (alphabetical given name)
Falko Dressler
Falko Dressler, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Falko Dressler is full professor and Chair for Telecommunication Networks at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Erlangen in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Falko Dressler is an IEEE Fellow as well as an ACM Distinguished Member. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). His research objectives include adaptive wireless networking (sub-6GHz, mmWave, visible light, molecular communication) and wireless-based sensing with applications in ad hoc and sensor networks, the Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems.
Florian Gramss
Florian Gramss, Innovations Manager SUP at Siemens, Germany
Florian Gramss started as a dual student in Electronical and Information Technologies and finished his Bachelor in Engineering in 2018. Parallel to studying his Master degree he became a fulltime employee at Siemens and works since 2020 as Innovation Manager for the Factory Automation Sales Support department. Having finished his Master Applied Research (M.Sc.) mid-2022, he will be starting his PhD in Software Architecture this October.
Andreas Hofer (Foto: Frederique Madi)
Andreas Hofer, CEO at Aperion Analytics, Germany
Andreas Hofer did his Master in Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Munich. Currently he is finishing his PhD in Production Management and Logistics. He has worked as a consultant in the field of Manufacturing Industry and is Founder and CEO of Aperion Analytics.
Guillaume Neau
Guillaume Neau, Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), France
Guillaume Neau is helping France understand, think, build and shine cloud first as well as extracting the best out of AWS while having fun with innovative concepts applied to the field of cybersecurity.
Marc-Oliver Pahl
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
Pierre Parrend
PierreParrend, PhD, University of Strasbourg
Pierre Parrend is the head of the Laboratory for Systems at EPITA (LSE), and member at CSTB Team of ICube lab in Strasbourg. He is a professor at EPITA Strasbourg. Pierre works on cybersecurity of IoT, embedded devices and networks for more than 15 years. After a PhD on system security where he worked on making robust Java/OSGi platforms, he turned to detection of complex attacks in particular through graph-based detectors, metrics and learning.
Antonello Pastore
Antonello Pastore, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Antonello Pastore was Mechatronics Technician at swb AG in Bremen between 2014-2020. In 2017 he started his Bachelor of Engineering Mechatronics at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. Starting in 2021 Antonello Pastore was a Student Supervisor and Technical Consultant at Siemens AG in Nuremberg as well as started his Master for Applied Research in Engineering Sciences at the Technical University of Nuremberg.
Benjamin Schadde
Benjamin Schadde, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Benjamin Schadde did his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) at Technical University of Nuremberg between 2013 and 2017. He was Student Assistant in the Laboratory for Mobile Robotics from 2017 to 2019. Benjamin Schadde finished his Master of Engineering in Mechatronical and Electrical Systems in 2021 also in Nuremberg. Since 2021 he works as Engineer in Presales Support at Siemens AG.
Laurent Toutain
Laurent Toutain, IMT Atlantique and Co-Founder of Acklio, France
Laurent Toutain is a Professor with the IMT Atlantique Graduate Engineering School and a Co-founder and a Scientific Advisor of Acklio. He worked for several years on IPv6 and participated in the creation of the G6 group, which has been gathering researchers and industrialists around IPv6 since 1995. His current research focuses on protocols and architectures specific to IoT’s needs. From 2011 to 2015, he managed the Smart Grid competence center shared by Télécom Bretagne, Texas Instruments, and ITRON. He is the author of several books on networks.
Pascal Traverse
Pascal Traverse, General Manager for Autonomy Technology at Airbus, France
Pascal Traverse is building Airbus strategy around autonomy technologies (automation, human-machine interface …) for the whole Airbus, launching the projects that are needed to fuel that strategy, fostering synergies within Airbus, and then participating in their steering. He participated in Fly-by-Wire development, from A320 to A380 – mostly on system architecture, safety and certification. Outside Airbus, he contributed to the first version of ARP4754 and regulation harmonization (with EASA, FAA …). He then managed Airbus system safety activities and later on part of A380 manufacturing quality (Final Assembly Line). Pascal Traverse is a Fellow of the AAAF, the Aeronautic and Aerospace Association of France. His doctorate is from Toulouse Institut National Polytechnique (N7). Pascal Traverse worked on research in LAAS (Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes, Toulouse) and UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).
Antoine Wacheux
Antoine Wacheux, Solution Architect at AWS, France
After Antoine Wacheux graduated from a computer engineering degree in 2017, he worked for 2 years at Bloomberg in London on various subjects such as mobile applications or real-time market data ingestion. Then he came back to France where he started working on cloud computing infrastructure, first as a consultant, then as Solutions Architect at AWS. Within AWS, he works today mainly with french public sector customers about smart territories and media workloads in the cloud.
Challenge Co-Organizers
Emmanuel Baccelli
Emmanuel Baccelli, PhD., Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Emmanuel Baccelli is Professor for “Open and Secure IoT Ecosystem” at Freie Universität Berlin, in partnership with Inria and the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). He received his PhD in 2006 in Paris from École Polytechnique. In 2012, he completed his habilitation at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Since 2007, Emmanuel Baccelli has joined Inria as scientific researcher, where he currently takes part in the project-team TRiBE. Since 2013, Emmanuel Baccelli is also co-founder and coordinator of the open source community developing RIOT Operating System.
Florian Gramss
Florian Gramss, Innovations Manager SUP at Siemens, Germany
Florian Gramss started as a dual student in Electronical and Information Technologies and finished his Bachelor in Engineering in 2018. Parallel to studying his Master degree he became a fulltime employee at Siemens and works since 2020 as Innovation Manager for the Factory Automation Sales Support department. Having finished his Master Applied Research (M.Sc.) mid-2022, he will be starting his PhD in Software Architecture this October.
Erkin Kirdan
Erkin Kirdan, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
Marc-Oliver Pahl
Marc-Oliver Pahl, Ph.D., IMT Atlantique, France (Expert Cybersecurity)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl heads the industrial Chair Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures (cyberCNI.fr) at IMT Atlantique Rennes, France. The chair hosts 18 professors, 9 PhDs, 4 PostDocs, and multiple engineers and interns. Marc-Oliver is an adjunct professor of Carleton University in Canada. Marc-Oliver is Vice President of the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (germany.acm.org). He heads the Future Education activities of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (future-industry.org). Marc-Oliver’s research focuses on a holistic approach to cybersecurity with an emphasis on collaborative approaches including VR-based cybersecurity interfaces and federated learning. He is an experienced teacher and an eLearning pioneer, holding several teaching awards. He continuously hosts events for larger audience such as the TALK.CYBERcni.fr speaker series and the future-iot.org PhD school series.
Antonello Pastore
Antonello Pastore, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Antonello Pastore was Mechatronics Technician at swb AG in Bremen between 2014-2020. In 2017 he started his Bachelor of Engineering Mechatronics at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. Starting in 2021 Antonello Pastore was a Student Supervisor and Technical Consultant at Siemens AG in Nuremberg as well as started his Master for Applied Research in Engineering Sciences at the Technical University of Nuremberg.
Benjamin Schadde
Benjamin Schadde, Consultant PCbased at Siemens, Germany
Benjamin Schadde did his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) at Technical University of Nuremberg between 2013 and 2017. He was Student Assistant in the Laboratory for Mobile Robotics from 2017 to 2019. Benjamin Schadde finished his Master of Engineering in Mechatronical and Electrical Systems in 2021 also in Nuremberg. Since 2021 he works as Engineer in Presales Support at Siemens AG.
Kaspar Schleiser
Kaspar Schleiser, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Kaspar Schleiser ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Freien Universität Berlin.
Laurent Toutain
Laurent Toutain, IMT Atlantique and Co-Founder of Acklio, France
Laurent Toutain is a Professor with the IMT Atlantique Graduate Engineering School and a Co-founder and a Scientific Advisor of Acklio. He worked for several years on IPv6 and participated in the creation of the G6 group, which has been gathering researchers and industrialists around IPv6 since 1995. His current research focuses on protocols and architectures specific to IoT’s needs. From 2011 to 2015, he managed the Smart Grid competence center shared by Télécom Bretagne, Texas Instruments, and ITRON. He is the author of several books on networks.
Antoine Wacheux
Antoine Wacheux, Solution Architect at AWS, France
After Antoine Wacheux graduated from a computer engineering degree in 2017, he worked for 2 years at Bloomberg in London on various subjects such as mobile applications or real-time market data ingestion. Then he came back to France where he started working on cloud computing infrastructure, first as a consultant, then as Solutions Architect at AWS. Within AWS, he works today mainly with french public sector customers about smart territories and media workloads in the cloud.
Lars Wuestrich
Lars Wuestrich, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
Staff
Samira Franzel
Samira Franzel, Science Communication Specialist at Einstein Center Digital Future, Germany
Samira Franzel has been responsible for science communication at the Einstein Center Digital Future since 2021. She studied American Studies and Political Science at the University of Mannheim, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Copenhagen. In recent years, she has worked at the Graduate School for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, the Goethe Institute, and the Sarah Wiener Foundation, among others.
Sandrine Frouin
Sandrine Frouin, IMT Atlantique
Assistante du Département SRCD
Erkin Kirdan
Erkin Kirdan, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
Olivia Pahl
Olivia Pahl, M.A., Web Chair
Olivia Pahl is the coordinator for the PhD Schools of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA) at IMT. Before moving to France she was heading the communications department at the Institute for Societal Development (FGW) in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Fabienne Rodionoff
Fabienne Rodionoff, IMT Atlantique
Assitant to the Chair Cyber-CNI
Lars Wuestrich
Lars Wuestrich, M.Sc., TU München, Germany
Research Associate at the IOT Smart Space Team at TU München.
