Technical Programme
The ENSSys 2014 technical programme is shown below:
| 08:30 | Arrival and Refreshments |
| 09:00 | Welcome to ENSsys 2014 |
| 09:15 | Keynote: "Perpetual Computing" Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan, US) Abstract: Every decade, computers scale in size, power, and deployment density. This talk will explore some of the opportunities and challenges in scaling to the next generation and beyond. Drawing from our experiences in deploying hundreds of energy harvesting sensors, from Rubik’s Cube-size devices that draw milliamps to cubic-mm sized “Smart Dust” that draws nanoamps, and many devices in between, this talk will discuss the emerging systems architecture, and articulate some of the hardware and software challenges, of perpetual computing—of intermittently-powered systems that could conceivably last forever. |
| 10:15 | Coffee |
| Session 1: Innovative Applications | |
| 10:45 | "An Instrument Scheduler Design for Energy Neutral Coastal Monitoring Systems Deployment" Yuting Zhang (Boston University, USA), Thomas D.C. Little (Boston University, USA), Benjamen R. Wetherill (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA), Francesco Peri (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA), Robert F. Chen (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) |
| 11:15 | "Energy-Harvesting Thermoelectric Sensing for Unobtrusive Water and Appliance Metering" Bradford Campbell (University of Michigan, USA), Branden Ghena(University of Michigan, USA), Prabal Dutta(University of Michigan, USA) |
| 11:45 | "Energy-Neutral Solar-Powered Street Lighting with Predictive and Adaptive Behaviour" Sei Ping Lau (University of Southampton, UK), Alex S Weddell (University of Southampton, UK), Geoff V Merrett (University of Southampton, UK), Neil M White (University of Southampton, UK) |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| Session 2: Energy Management | |
| 13:30 | "A Power Manager with Balanced Quality of Service for Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes" Trong Nhan Le (University of Rennes 1, France), Alain Pegatoquet (University of Nice, France), Olivier Berder (University of Rennes 1, France), Olivier Sentieys (University of Rennes 1, France) |
| 14:00 | "Enabling Opportunistic Energy Trading between Overlapping Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks" Teng Jiang (University of Southampton, UK), Geoff V Merrett (University of Southampton, UK), Nick Harris (University of Southampton, UK) |
| 14:30 | "Reducing Charge Redistribution Loss for Supercapacitor-Operated Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes" Qianao Ju (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Ying Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 15:00 | Coffee |
| Session 3: Simulation and Modelling | |
| 15:30 | "Energy Harvesting Framework for Network Simulator 3 (ns-3)" Cristiano Tapparello (University of Rochester, USA), Hoda Ayatollahi (University of Rochester, USA), Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA) |
| 16:00 | "Lossless Compression of Cloud-Cover Forecasts for Low-Overhead Distribution in Solar-Harvesting Sensor Networks" Christian Renner (University of Luebeck, Germany), Phu Anh Tuan Nguyen (University of Luebeck, Germany) |
| 16:30 | "Empirical Validation of Energy-Neutral Operation on Wearable Devices by MISO Beamforming of IEEE 802.11ac" Wen-Chan Shih (Institute of Information Science, Taiwan), Pai H. Chou (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; University of California, USA), Wen-Tsuen Chen (Institute of Information Science, Taiwan) |
| 17:00 | Close |