How to make a sustainable world, that gives the society higher living standards, greater safety, more comfort and efficiency? In the track Pervasive Computing and Internet of Things we will address techniques, tools, and methods to design systems that help to realize this.
Pervasive Computing and Internet of Things is about networked and smart embedded systems being invisible and unobtrusive, integrated with everyday environments to support people in their activities, to facilitate and enrich their daily life, and to increase productivity at work.
Embedding and networking millions of intelligent objects into an environment creates a digital skin or wireless network of smart objects. Each object is capable of sensing physical information about its immediate space, cooperate with its neighbors, reason about its impact, and summarize the immense amounts of low-level information to produce data representative of the overall environment, and even actuate if needed.
Pervasive data will change how these intelligent objects dynamically pool information, cooperate under severe constraints and reliably interact and control the physical world.
Most important enabling technologies that have emerged to make the Pervasive Computing and the Internet of Things vision a reality are: wireless networking, localization, distributed systems, mobile computing, smart networked sensors, embedded platforms, sensor data analytics and reasoning. They have to deal with ever-changing user requirements, environmental situations and system resources. They have to be privacy aware and secure to encourage wide use and to provide the most optimal services.
Example topics of interest are, but not limited to, the following areas:
Computing and communications: opportunistic networks, participatory sensing, urban/mobile crowd sensing & intelligence.
IoT systems and infrastructures: large-scale data management, cloud and edge computing, wireless sensor and actuator networks.
Trust, privacy and security: participatory and social sensing, blockchain and smart contracts.
Novel applications: pervasive technologies for healthcare, sport, smart homes and buildings, smart manufacturing, smart cities, autonomous driving.
Technological innovations: mobile and wearable computing systems and services, smart devices and intelligent environments, positioning and tracking technologies.
Some possibly interesting topics can be found on the Pervasive Systems Education page
A conference that is addressing similar topics is the IEEE International conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication. A relevant journal in this domain is IEEE Pervasive Computing. You may also look at the Pervasive Systems website for more inspiration.
For further information on the content of this track, you may contact the track chairs: Alex Chiumento.