Abstract

Wirelessly networked smart things are increasingly used to build applications in safety-critical domains such as surveillance of civil infrastructure, smart cities, and smart healthcare. These applications require a dependable communication performance and need to meet specific reliability and availability requirements, even when the smart devices are exposed to harsh environmental conditions such as heat and radio interference. This talk will highlight how making sure that application-specific dependability requirements are met despite those environmental influences is still a grand challenge in today’s IoT landscape, especially when using low-power wireless systems. It will then illustrate recent efforts in (i) providing methods and tools to rigorously benchmark the dependability of low-power wireless systems, and in (ii) increasing the performance of IoT protocols in the presence of harsh environmental conditions.

Biography of the speaker

Carlo Alberto Boano is an assistant professor at the Institute of Technical Informatics at Graz University of Technology, Austria. His research interests encompass the design of dependable networked embedded systems, low-power wireless protocols, and Internet of Things applications. Carlo Alberto is also actively involved in the IoT Benchmarking initiative and co-organizes since 2016 the EWSN dependability competition quantitatively comparing the performance of low-power wireless networking solutions from both academia and industry in harsh RF environments. More info: http://www.carloalbertoboano.com/