ENSsys 2020

in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2020

8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems

November 16, 2020

Technical Programme

Technical Papers

Video Presentations

Programme

The ENSsys 2020 technical programme is shown below:

Start Time: 1600 UTC / 1000 CT / 0800 PST / 1600 UK / Japan +1 0100

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16:00 UTC Opening Remarks
16:05 UTC Keynote: Towards a Taxonomy of Energy Scavenging Applications, Architectures, and Execution Models
Pat Pannuto (University of California, San Diego)
16:35 UTC Coffee Break
16:45 UTC Session 1: New Directions
(Session Chair: Bashima Islam)
  Intermittence Anomalies not Considered Harmful [Pitch|Presentation]
A. Maioli, L. Mottola
  On Securing Persistent State in Intermittent Computing [Pitch|Presentation]
H. Asad, E. Wouters, N. Bhatti, L. Mottola, T. Voigt
  Energy Harvesting Systems Need an Operating System Too [Pitch|Presentation]
S. Venkat, M. Clyburn, B. Campbell
  Reliable Energy Sources as a Foundation for Reliable Intermittent Systems [Pitch|Presentation]
D. Jagtap, P. Pannuto
17:15 UTC Coffee Break
17:25 UTC Session 2: New Platforms
(Session Chair: Sivert Sliper)
  A Battery-Free Long-Range Wireless Smart Camera for Face Recognition [Pitch|Presentation]
M. Giordano, P. Mayer, M. Magno
  Defragmenting Energy Storage in Batteryless Sensing Devices [Pitch|Presentation]
E. Yildiz, K. Yildirim
  Zero Power Energy-Aware Communication for Transiently-Powered Sensing Systems [Pitch|Presentation]
A. Torrisi, D. Brunelli, K. Yildirim
17:50 UTC Extended Coffee Break and Posters
  Comparing NVM Technologies through the lens of Intermittent Computation [Pitch]
T. Daulby, A. Savanth, A. Weddell, G. Merrett
  Towards Battery-Free Body Sensor Networks [Pitch]
S. Sen, S. Lee, R. Jackson, R. Wang, N. Alshurafa, J. Hester, J. Gummeson
  Adaptive Energy Budgeting for Atomic Operations in Intermittently-Powered Systems [Pitch]
J. Zhan, A. Weddell, G. Merrett
  Can Crystal Oscillators Keep Time Without Power? [Pitch]
A. Alsubhi, N. Tobias, S. Babatunde, J. Sorber
18:20 UTC Session 3: Tools, Simulation and Modeling
(Session Chair: Vito Kortbeek)
  eProfiler: High-Precision Power Monitoring System for IoT Devices Featuring Extreme Dynamic Range of Operation [Pitch|Presentation]
G. Kazdaridis, I. Zografopoulos, N. Sidiropoulos, P. Symeonidis, T. Korakis
  Energy-aware HW/SW Co-modeling of Batteryless Wireless Sensor Nodes [Pitch|Presentation]
S. Wong, S. Sliper, W. Wang, A. Weddell, S. Gauthier, G. Merrett
  Analysing and Improving Robustness of Predictive Energy Harvesting Systems [Pitch|Presentation]
N. Stricker, L. Thiele
  Estimating Harvestable Energy in Time-Varying Indoor Light Conditions [Pitch|Presentation]
X. Ma, S. Bader, B. Oelmann
18:50 UTC Closing Remarks and Presentation of Awards

  • Best Paper Award
    • Winner: A. Maioli, L. Mottola, "Intermittence Anomalies not Considered Harmful"
    • Second Prize: A. Torrisi, D. Brunelli, K. Yildirim, "Zero Power Energy-Aware Communication for Transiently-Powered Sensing Systems"

  • Best Presentation Video Award
    • Winner: M. Giordano, P. Mayer, M. Magno , "A Battery-Free Long-Range Wireless Smart Camera for Face Recognition"
    • Second Prize: D. Jagtap, P. Pannuto, "Reliable Energy Sources as a Foundation for Reliable Intermittent Systems"

  • Best Pitch Video Award
    • Joint Winners:
      • A. Maioli, L. Mottola, "Intermittence Anomalies not Considered Harmful"
      • T. Daulby, A. Savanth, A. Weddell, G. Merrett, "Comparing NVM Technologies through the lens of Intermittent Computation"

19:00 UTC ENSsys Business Meeting

Keynote Speaker

Title: Towards a Taxonomy of Energy Scavenging Applications, Architectures, and Execution Models
Speaker: Pat Pannuto (University of California, San Diego)

Abstract: Once a radical idea, today, a wide array of systems find interesting ways to scavenge energy from their environment to wholly support or sometimes simply supplant their operation. There is often a mis-match between instantaneous available energy income and desired energy usage patterns, however, which has resulted in an array of research into various mechanisms for time-shifting energy accumulation (largely hardware approaches) or energy use (largely software approaches). We now have an opportunity to survey and collect the breadth of techniques that have been explored and to begin the process of laying out a more principled design pipeline for energy scavenging systems and application. If we can craft this understanding of design, might we as a community then be able to take an application domain historically dominated by highly optimized, application-specific vertical integration and create a set of modular and composable design blocks and in turn help usher in a new era of energy scavenging systems?

Biography: Pat Pannuto is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Pat's research is in the broad area of networked embedded systems, with contributions to computer architecture, wireless communications, mobile computing, operating systems, and development engineering. Pat's work has been recognized as a Top Pick in Computer Architecture and selected as a Best Paper Finalist at IPSN, and has been awarded NSF, NDSEG, and Qualcomm Innovation fellowships. Pat has also received teaching awards from the Computer Science Department, the College of Engineering, and the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan.