Our colleague, Károly Farkas gave a presentation about Smart Cities as an invited speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing & Integrated Networks (SPIN 2015) taken place on 19-20 February, 2015 in New Delhi, India. More information about the conference: http://spin2015.com.
Danube Innovation Summit
Over 80 representatives of more than 10 countries took part at the first Danube Innovation Summit in Budapest, on the 4-5th of December, 2014. The main objective of the conference was to provide a forum for all stakeholders of the innovation eco-system in Danube region, including the industrial, academic, and governmental sectors. Participants represented R&D institutions, innovative SMEs, and European and regional research and innovation programs and projects.
The conference was opened by the welcome speech of Prof. László Vajta, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of BME, followed by the presentation of Prof. Zoltán Horváth, Director of the Budapest Associate Partners Group of ICT Labs, the Knowledge and Innovation Community established by EIT, the European Innovation and Technology Institute. The program continued with presentations by the Hungarian National Innovation Office, the Ministry of Human Capacities, FILAB Association and the Mobility and Multimedia Cluster. Presentations by representatives of international organization, including EIT ICT Labs, Digital Factory, Demola Open Innovation Platform and Fraunhofer Foundation were received with great interest. There were interesting presentations about European programs and projects, including the current H2020 opportunities, the FIWARE accelerator, and EUREKAEurostart. The web platform, developed by the SEETechnology project, was also presented, that connects innovative enterprises, projects and R&D institutions in the South-East European region.
The many positive feedbacks, received from the participants after the event, support the organizers’ intention to continue this initiative, not only with organizing the second Summit in 2015, but also with creating a permanent framework for cooperation in the Danube region, the Danube Innovation Community.
BME NetSkills Challenge 2014 Award Ceremony
The BME NetSkills Challenge 2014 student contest is over. The award ceremony took place on December 2, 2014 at the employee meeting of the organizer, the Department of Networked Systems and Services of BME. The awards were handed over by the representatives of the sponsors, namely the NetVisor Ltd., the HTE Association, and the HTTP Foundation.
The winner is Ákos Varga, who was also member of the EuroSkills European Champion team in 2014. The silver medalist is Balázs Ákos Kalmár, and the bronze medalist is Dániel Horváth.
Congratulations to the winners! More information about the contest: https://www.hit.bme.hu/bmenetskills/
FIRST Presentation at Innotrends Hungary 2014
Our colleague, Vilmos Simon has presented at the 1.Hungarian Future Internet Conference (as part of the Innotrends Hungary 2014 international conference and exhibition) the results of the FIRST (Future Internet Research, Services, Technology) national R&D project, focusing on the Future Internet Architectures area.
Specialization exhibition (Oct. 28, 2014)
A great possibility for the students to inform about the BSc specialization courses offered by MediaNets Lab:
- Infocommunications systems
- Mediainformatics and Security
Oct. 28, 2014, 13:00-17:00, Q. building
IEEE PerCom conference report in IEEE Communications Magazine
The October 2014 edition of the Global Communications Newsletter in IEEE Communications Magazine published a conference report about the IEEE PerCom conference held in March, 2014 in Budapest. Medianets Laboratory delegated, beyond one of the General Co-chairs, several lab members who were actively involved in the organization of this successful event. The published article is accessible with an IEEE account via the following link: http://digital.comsoc.org/system/files/magazines/ci/2014/october/index.html#20
Demonstration of our Android-based and multi-sensor supporting mHealth service platform at Faculty of Medicine of University of Perugia
Recently, the rapid growth of multi-access mobile devices interconnected with different wearable biosignal sensors via Body Area Network (BAN) play an increasingly important role in healthcare systems and provide significant solutions for scenarios of home healthcare, real-time remote/mobile patient monitoring and ubiquitous tele-consultation. The proliferation of different radio access technologies make possible mobile healthcare (mHealth) services to actively benefit from the advances of heterogeneous and overlapping wireless networks. The varying characteristics of mHealth applications (particularly different real-time monitoring solutions) in means of the required network resources and Quality of Services parameters invoke elaboration of effective flow-based mobility management algorithms. Aiming to provide a transparent and efficient mobility infrastructure for the mHealth field we designed and developed a context-aware IPv6 flow mobility management scheme for Android focusing on mobile patient monitoring and tele-consultation use-cases in a multi-sensor environment. The proposed, MIP6D-NG based solution was successfully demonstrated at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Perugia. The first experiences with the demonstrated solution were already published in our MoWNet’14 article.
New MediaNets publications at the International conference on selected topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking – MoWNet’2014
We presented our two accepted papers successfully during the MoWNet’2014 in Rome with titles “Context-aware IPv6 Flow Mobility for Multi-Sensor based Mobile Patient Monitoring and Tele-consultation” and “Client-based and Cross-Layer Optimized Flow Mobility for Android Devices in Heterogeneous Femtocell/Wi-Fi Networks“. For media and other information visit MoWNet’s homepage! Please see our papers in the publications section!
CONCERTO demonstration at EUCNC 2014
An improved version of the FP7 CONCERTO project demonstrator was performed in Bologna at the EUCNC 2014 conference, where we presented our Android-based IPv6 flow mobility architecture for multi-sensor based mHealth services. The rapid growth of multi-access mobile devices interconnected with different wearable vital sensors via Body Area Network play an increasingly important role in healthcare and provide significant solutions for home healthcare, remote patient monitoring and real-time tele-consultation. The spreading of heterogeneous and overlapping wireless access technologies make possible to mobile healthcare applications to use the available network resources efficiently and call into being the ubiquitous Internet connection for these applications. These facts motivated us to design and implement a context-aware IPv6 flow mobility management scheme for multi-sensor based mobile patient monitoring and tele-consultation. Please check our presentation on the prezi’s website or in PDF version. An article presenting CONCERTO has also been published on the last number of “net-tech future”. The online version of the magazine is available on the EC website. Please have a look at our photos below! For more media content visit EUCNC’s photo galery!