Workshops & Tutorials
New Tutorial The Anatomy of a Sensor and LoRaWAN
This tutorial will present an overview of sensors and LoRaWAN technologies. We will introduce general design principles and a solution architecture of a sensor network based on a LoRaWAN communication platform.
We present this tutorial in two parts:
- Part I - Theory
- Components of a sensor device
- General architecture of a sensor network
- Considerations for the design
- Communication alternatives of a sensor device
- Introduction to LoRaWAN
- A case study
- Part II - Hands-on
- Setup of a sensor device
- Introduce the sensor to the LoRaWAN network
- Monitor the sensor data
- LoraWAN activities
- Observe the system using a UI
There will be four (4) workshops this year. Further, a workshop's website is its primary information source, and information on a workshop's website supersedes what is provided below.
- The 11th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Systems (ENSSYS)
This workshop aims to bring together researchers to examine the challenges, issues, and opportunities surrounding the research, design, and engineering of energy-harvesting, energy-neutral, and intermittent sensing systems, thus complementing the topics of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2023). These systems play a crucial role in providing a sustainable solution to the evergrowing Internet of Things (IoT) and enabling future applications in smart energy, transportation, environmental monitoring, and smart cities. We are interested in not only developing innovative solutions in hardware for energy scavenging, adaptive algorithms, and power management policies to ensure uninterrupted or intermittent operation but also in integrating artificial intelligence in these systems and broadening the scope of new applications.
ENSsys, now in its 11th iteration, is the longest-running workshop at SenSys. As a workshop that has built a strong community over the years, ENSsys will focus on community growth and outreach. Hands-on demos and tutorials will provide practical experience with energy harvesting systems. Paper sessions will feature full papers and position papers.
- The Fifth ACM International Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys)
Sensing technologies are being widely used in environments such as smart home, smart building, vehicular network, etc. Information collected from networked sensor systems are valuable if shared and tracked correctly. However, today’s sensing-cloud paradigm does not genetically support trust management and privacy preservation; it also does not encourage information sharing in multi-stakeholder settings through incentives and payment mechanisms. The emerging blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies offer a possibility to 1) ensure data protection, 2) monetize information exchange, 3) reduce sharing and maintenance costs, and 4) to manage trust in multi-stakeholder settings. We solicit high quality position papers and research papers that address opportunities and challenges at the intersection of networked sensing/IoT, smart cities, and blockchain.
We aim to set up a stage for industry and academia to share wins and lessons combining both disciplines. We welcome contributions to all relevant research on application, system, network, and security.
- The First International Workshop on Security and Privacy of Sensing Systems (Sensors S&P 2023)
As sensing systems become increasingly ubiquitous in various safety-critical IoT applications, such as smart cities, healthcare, environmental monitoring, and industrial automation, providing security and privacy guarantees becomes increasingly elusive. The widespread deployment of networked sensors and the rapid advancements in black-box deep learning models capable of encoding large amounts of information into embeddings have led to heightened concerns about the potential misuse of sensitive data and the vulnerability of these systems to malicious attacks. The shift from specialized, domain-specific sensors to universal sensor paradigms necessitates novel approaches to ensuring security and privacy in these complex IoT ecosystems.
The Sensors S&P workshop addresses the above and other unique challenges to providing security and privacy guarantees in IoT sensor systems. We will provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry partners to exchange ideas, present novel research findings, and foster collaborations among participants related to sensor security and privacy.
- The First ACM Workshop on mmWave Sensing Systems and Applications
mmWave spectrum spanning the frequency range between 30 GHz and 300 GHz. Propelled by the availability of miniature commercial-off-the-shelf mmWave chipsets and devices, there has been significant advancement in mmWave sensing solutions and systems in outdoor and indoor applications. However, there remain significant gaps from lab to real deployments due to the lack of benchmark open datasets, understanding of signal propagation characteristics, and constraints in hardware capabilities, etc.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers in academia and industry to present the latest research findings. It also serves as a venue to brainstorm new opportunities and grand challenges.
The following are the important dates common for all workshops:
Paper Submission 22 September 2023, 23:59 AoE Notification of Paper Acceptance 13 October 2023 Camera-Ready Paper Deadline 25 October 2023