PLENARY SESSIONS

Presenter

Professor Moe Win
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Title

Location, location, and location!

Abstract

The availability of positional information is of extreme importance in numerous wireless applications. The coming years will see the emergence of location-aware networks with sub-meter localization accuracy, minimal infrastructure, and robustness in harsh (GPS challenged) environments. To reach this goal we advocate network localization and navigation, a new paradigm that exploits a combination of wideband transmission and spatiotemporal cooperation. Our work has addressed this problem from three perspectives: theoretical framework, cooperative algorithms, and network experimentation. We will give an overview of our recent research results in this exciting field.

Biography

Moe Win is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining MIT, he was with AT&T Research Laboratories for five years and with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for seven years. His research encompasses fundamental theories, algorithm design, and experimentation for a broad range of real-world problems. His current research topics include network localization and navigation, network interference exploitation, intrinsic wireless network secrecy, adaptive diversity techniques, and ultra-wideband systems. Professor Win is a Fellow of the AAAS, the IEEE, and the IET, and served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is an elected Member-at-Large on the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors (2011-2013). He was the Chair (2004-2006) and Secretary (2002-2004) for the Radio Communications Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. He was honored with two IEEE Technical Field Awards: the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (jointly with Professor R. A. Scholtz). He received the International Prize for Communications Cristoforo Colombo, the Copernicus Fellowship, the Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, the Fulbright Fellowship, the Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Ferrara, and the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Presenter

Dr. Thomas Burgess
indoo.rs, Austria

Title

Indoor Navigation: The Crowd is the future - Crowd learning for indoor positioning.

Abstract

Real-time accurate indoor positioning poses many new possibilities and challenges. At indoo.rs (Austrian based start-up founded in 2010) we enable positioning within third party mobile applications (Android/iOS) so that users can find themselves and navigate through buildings. In practice we estimate location and movement using motion sensors and comparisons of radio scans (WiFi/iBeacon) to pre-measured reference measurements (fingerprints). We currently are transitioning from using dedicated measurements to an approach that learns and updates references by analyzing data from navigating users. This approach uses the Hadoop ecosystem to combine the output of the IOT network of mobiles and beacons with big data based machine learning and near real time analytics (including visualization). The complete solution reduces implementation and maintenance cost of providing accurate real time indoor positioning.

Biography

Thomas Burgess did his PhD in particle physics at Stockholm University (Sweden) for the AMANDA/IceCube neutrino telescopes. Following this, he worked as a PostDoc/researcher at University of Bergen (Norway) for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In 2012, after 12 years of academic research, he joined indoo.rs (in Vienna, Austria) to initiate and lead research efforts in indoor positioning. He has given talks for business, academic conferences and the general public regularly throughout his career. Research at indoo.rs involves algorithm design, model building, statistical analytics, machine learning and data science. In current projects, data from large numbers of mobile devices is being processed for automatic mapping, advanced analytics and improved positioning.

Speakers

1 Dr. Wilfred E. Booij

Sonitor Technologies, Norway

Biography
Dr. Booij joined Sonitor Technologies, a leading indoor positioning technology company, in 2006 as Chief Technology Officer. Since that time, he has led R&D for all Sonitor products, including Sonitor Sense™, the Company's latest generation platform and industry leading positioning technology, from concept to a robust, industrialized product. Prior to Sonitor, Dr. Booij was a Senior Scientist at the Microsystems and Nanotechnology lab at SINTEF, Norway's leading industrial R&D organization, and was a senior engineer at Hewlett-Packard (later Agilent Technologies) in the UK. Dr. Booij holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK, where he pioneered nano-scale superconducting quantum electronics.

2 Nayeem Hoq

FAA Airport Engineering Division, USA

Biography
Nayeem Hoq has over 25 years of Electrical Engineering experience in industry and government. Currently, he is a Senior Electrical Engineer with FAA. Nayeem is the lead for the indoor navigation research project to find solutions to mitigate the challenges faced by blind and visually impaired passengers at airport terminals. Nayeem has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California. Nayeem was a member of staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is member of Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Eta Sigma Honor Societies. He is a member of IEEE.

3 Linus Thrybom

ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

Biography
Linus Thrybom is R&D manager of the Industrial IoT team at ABB Corporate Research, Sweden. He joined ABB Corporate Research in 2008, where he has been working as Principal Scientist and project leader in the area of industrial communication, including e.g. 5G, time critical Ethernet, IEC 61850, WAN, time synchronization, and positioning. Linus has authored or co-authored several publications and IP filings. He recently led the 5GPPP Whitepaper on Energy & 5G. Between 1998 and 2008 he worked as project leader at Bombardier Transportation on train communication and control systems, between 1992 and 1997 he worked at ABB Industrial Systems as HW/SW design engineer of embedded systems and communication devices, and he has thus +20 years of R&D experience in this domain. Linus received his MSc degree in Computer Science in 1991 from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

4 Pawel Wilk

Samsung Electronics R&D Center, Poland

Biography
Pawel Wilk is an experienced senior software engineer who managed a number of software development projects in the cooperation with European and Asian R&Ds. In Samsung R&D since 2009, involved in Indoor Location Services development since 2012. Regularly participates and publishes on IPIN conferences. Represented Samsung team in the indoor positioning competition in 2015 in Banff. Took part in the symposium: Challenges of Fingerprinting in Indoor Positioning and Navigation, Barcelona, May 3-4, 2016. He is a appointed to represent Samsung Electronics as an expert engineer on the World Custom Organization sessions.

5 Mickael Viot

Decawave Vice President of Marketing, Ireland

Biography
Mickael is a 15 year veteran of the high-tech industry. Mickael has extensive experience in complex technical customer offers in the telecommunication and semiconductor domains, including project management, business development, strategic marketing and customer relationship building. Prior to joining DecaWave, Mickael worked as Medical Segment Manager at Freescale. Mickael holds a EE MSc degree specializing in Embeded Systems from the Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieur en Génie Electrique in Rouen, France and is currently completing an Executive MBA from UCD Michael Smurfit in Dublin, Ireland.

6 Pascal Fabré

Bespoon, France

Biography
Pascal Fabre is the CTO and co-founder of BeSpoon, a fabless company offering a single chip solution and several 3D localization systems based on UWB technology. Pascal works 15 years in mobile phone industry with Philips, Sensei, Purple Labs/Myriad Group, He had the opportunity to take over the hardware team and large project developments. He holds a MSc degree in Microwave Electronics from ESIEE, France (École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électronique et Électrotechnique).

7 Dr. Lauri Wirola

HERE Tampere, Finland

Biography
Dr. Tech. Lauri Wirola received both his Master of Science and Doctor of Technology degrees from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He majored in physics and minored in mathematics and industrial economics. Dr. Wirola has worked with various positioning products over the last 10 years ranging from Assisted GNSS services to cellular and wifi-based outdoor-indoor solutions. He has published widely on especially Assisted GNSS-related technologies and holds tens of patents in the area. Currently Dr. Wirola works as Product Manager for HERE Indoor Positioning solutions.