Santander on FIRE

The annual European Wireless (EW) Conference is one of the leading conferences in the wireless research area. Although it started as a European conference, the scope of the Conference has evolved to cover a wide range of global issues at the core of wireless and mobile technologies and related issues.

The 19th European Wireless Conference 2013 (EW2013) is organised and hosted by the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR) at the University of Surrey from the 16th to the 18th April 2013. The 2013 edition is aimed at addressing a key theme on “5G-Technologies and Spectrum Crunch in 2020”. For more information please visit http://www.ew2013.org/ or contact Safa Sway ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Call For Papers: International Workshop on Pervasive Internet of Things and Smart Cities (PITSaC-2013) http://ants.inf.um.es/pitsac

To be held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2013) http://www.aina-conference.org/2013 Barcelona, Spain, March 2013

Submission deadline: October 15th, 2012

Scope:

This workshop aims at gathering researchers and developers from the fields of the Internet of Things, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Smart Cities to discuss the technologies and research challenges associated to new applications and services in Smart Livable Cities.

The Internet of Things is a key enabler for the realization of smart cities as it allows for the pervasive interaction with/between the smart things leading to an effective integration of information into the digital world. These smart (mobile) things – which are instrumented with sensing, actuation, and interaction capabilities - have the means to exchange information and influence the real world entities and other actors of a smart city eco-system in real time, forming a smart pervasive computing environment to achieve a more livable city.

Pervasive Internet of Things and Smart Cities (PITSaC) is an International Workshop focused on the extension and integration aspects of the secure Internet of Things and pervasive computing technologies. The objective is to reach a global access to the services and information through, on the one hand, the so-called Web of Things and on the other hand, the efficient support for global communications, in order to embrace the machine to machine (M2M) communications in the future Internet of Things composed of IPv6 network and various smart things. This workshop will also address further issues such as the adaptation of legacy technologies and RFID to IPv6 and the Future Internet of Things, security and privacy requirements in Smart Cities and the design of a secure and privacy-aware Internet of Things as well as the definition of new advanced architectures and models for the Internet and its application to smart livable Cities.

The tracks and topics that are considered, but not limited to, are the following:

Tracks & Topics:

Architectures for the Internet of Things - Architectures for the Internet of Things - Future technologies bridging the physical and virtual worlds - End to End / Machine to Machine (M2M) protocols - Cloud computing and things internetworking

Web of Things - Web of Things and Semantic - Experiences with Open Platforms and hardware within IoT - Embedded Web Services (CoAP / Lightweight SOAP) - Lightweight data structured (EXI)

Pervasive IoT - Location and discovery of things on the Internet - Applications and interaction for social networking - Novel concepts such as Crowd-sourcing - User-oriented, context-aware IoT services - Semantic technologies for devices and services

Security, Trust, Privacy and Identity - Lightweight implementations of cryptographic stacks - Trust, security and privacy in IoT and Smart Cities - End to end security capabilities from the things - Identity, Naming and addressability issues - Privacy issues and technologies for the Internet of Things

Smart cities - Business models and new services for smart cities - Mobile computing and smart phones interaction - Efficient resource management (water, energy…) - Building automation and smart buildings - Smart cities deployments, test-beds and field trials

Co-organized by:

IoT6 European Project

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: October 15th, 2012

Acceptance Notification: November 25 th,2012

Final Manuscript: December 28th, 2012

Registration deadline: January 11th, 2013

Workshop dates: March 25-27 th, 2013

Distinguished papers accepted and presented at the workshops of AINA-2013, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious international journals.

Submission Guidelines All submissions to PITSaC should be written in English, including figures and references, using 10 font size, and numbering each page, 6 pages are the limit.

Proceedings of the PITSaC-2013 will be published by IEEE in conjunction with the proceedings from AINA-2013.

Total submitted proposals: 31

	The 2nd Open Call has been closed Overall 31 independent proposal submissions were received from proposers coming from 6 different European countries. The overall requested funding from the received proposals was around 3.2M€ which corresponds to an oversubscription factor of around 8 for the total funding allocated for this call. Based on the funding available for the experimental call, the top 4 proposals have been selected for funding by the consortium. In particular this included the following ones: · MOBICS-MITOS. Proposers: MOBICS LTD from Greece. Requested Budget: 99,880€ · SmartSantander-2-open-call_MOBITRANS-HERITAS. Proposers: MOBITRANS TRANSPORT & MOBILITY SOLUTIONS from Spain. Requested Budget: 98,678€ · SEN2SOC; SENsor measurements and SOCial networks interactions. Proposers: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) from Greece. Requested Budget: 89,600€ · InterDataNet (IDN). Proposers: CNIT Research Unit at the University of Firenze from Italy. Requested Budget: 97,000€ Both successful and unsuccessful proposers have been made aware of the evaluation outcomes. The successful proposers are now in discussion with the consortium to fine tune the experiment specification based on reviewer recommendations. A first physical meeting will take place in the beginning of March in Aarhus, during which the proposers are officially introduced to the SmartSantander consortium. Proposal Orig. By Country Number of Proposals Cyprus 1 Finland 1 France 1 Greece 4 Italy 2 Spain 22 Total submitted proposals: 31

Experimenting with the Internet of Things in the context of the city

The SmartSantander project, currently active in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research and technological development, announces the second Open Call for new project partners to submit proposal for experimentation on the project’s test facility.

Open Call Summary

The SmartSantander project is offering up to 100K Euros funding contribution for innovative applications and services, middleware developments as well as protocols and technologies that use the SmartSantander experimental facilities.

The aim is to stimulate, demand and establish a methodology of experimentally driven research as well as expand the service, protocol and technology offering of the platform towards experimentation, but also the public. The funding will be allocated through a series of open calls. The second open call opens 1st October 2012 and will close on 14th November 2012, targeting the Internet of Things and Smart City communities.

The SmartSantander is a unique experimental facility as it is deployed in a real city, with citizens using the services offered by the platform. It also strives to be the largest public Internet of Things test bed with a deployment of over 12,000 actuators, sensors and tags by the year 2013, with additional sites in Guildford, Belgrade and Lübeck adding another 8,000 sensors.

We welcome submissions targeting:

• Innovative applications/services in the framework of the smart city supported by IoT technology.


• Middleware developments bridging applications and technologies, allowing a plug and play approach.


• Protocols/technologies for maximising efficiency & sustainability of IoT deployments in the smart city.

The city and its partners welcome you to experiment on it!

Key Documents:

• Full Text SmartSantander-2-Open-Call

• Guide for Applicants

• Regulations for use of the facility

SmartSantander 2nd Open Call Presentation