IoTech 2018

International school on IoT enabling Technologies

17-20 March 2018, Sousse, Tunisia

The technical program covers the following topics:

IoT & Embedded Systems
IoT & Network Communication
IoT & Cloud Computing
IoT & Big Data

International school on IoT enabling Technologies17-20 March 2018, Sousse, Tunisia

IoTech 2018

The international school on Internet of Things Enabling Technologies (IoTech 2018) will be organized by Computer & Embedded Systems (CES) laboratory, in collaboration with Digital Research Centre of Sfax (CNRS), from 17th to 20th March 2018 in Sousse, Tunisia.
The goal of IoTech school is to build the professional skills of researchers and industrials, and promote international exchanges. This school covers the entire IoT ecosystem, while focusing on innovative advancements in cutting-edge technologies enabling the IoT, such as:

(1) Network Communication

(2) Cloud Computing

(3) Big Data

(4) Embedded Systems

Each topic is covered by theory and hands-on sessions given by international experts from academy and industry. Through the different hands-on activities, each participant will get insights on how to build a complete end-to-end IoT application.

IoTECH school is open for Ph.D. and Master students, engineers, researchers, and industrials worldwide, who are interested in the Internet of Things.

Call for demos New

IoTech 2018 will include a demo session, intended for both academic and industrial exhibitors, to show case their innovative research prototypes and industrial products respectively, in the area of IoT. The objective of IoTech demo session is to exhibit real-life implementations of research results in the field of IoT and bring together industry and academia around demo working systems and groundbreaking ideas.

Demonstrators are invited to submit a two-page abstract to the following address: iotech2018@gmail.com. The Demo abstract describes the application being demonstrated, the equipment that will be used for the demonstration and the demonstration experience. This abstract must clearly explain how the proposed demo is innovative and of interest for IoTech school attendees. The abstract can be enriched with multimedia attachments.

Each demonstration will be provided with a table and an electrical power strip. Any otherequipment needs to be provided by the demonstrators.

Submission Deadline: 03 March 2018

Speakers

Prof. Hichem Snoussi

University of Technology of Troyes, France

Prof. Hichem Snoussi is a PhD and HdR in Control and Signal Processing. He received the diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supélec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 2000...

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Dr. Bilel Jamoussi

International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Bilel Jamoussi is Chief of the Study Groups Department at the International Telecommunication Union Standardization Bureau in Geneva Switzerland...

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Dr. Sami Yangui

National Institute of Applied Sciences, France

Dr. Sami is an Associate Professor with Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Toulouse, France. He is member of the CNRS LAAS research team. His research interests include distributed systems and architectures, service-oriented computing and Internet of Things...

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Prof. Khalil Drira

French National Center for Scientific Research, France

Khalil DRIRA received the Engineering and M.S. (DEA) degrees in Computer Science from ENSEEIHT (INP Toulouse), in June and September 1988 respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. and HDR degrees in Computer Science from UPS , University Paul Sabatier Toulouse...

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Prof. Roberto Minerva

Future Centre in the Strategy Department of Telecom Italia

Dr. Minerva holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and Telecommunications from Telecom Sud Paris, France, and a Master Degree in Computer Science from Bari University, Italy. He was the Chairman of the IEEE IoT Initiative, an effort to nurture a technical community and to foster research in IoT.

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Dr. Carlo Boano

Institute for Technical Informatics of Graz University of Technology, Austria

Dr. Boano is an assistant professor at Institute for Technical Informatics of Graz University of Technology, Austria. He received a doctoral degree from TU Graz in 2016. Alberto's research interests encompass the design of dependable networked embedded systems...

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Dr. Issa Mohammad Khalil

Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

Dr. Issa Khalil received his PhD. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University, USA in 2007. Immediately thereafter he joined the College of Information Technology (CIT) of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) where he served as an associate professor and department head of the Information Security Department.

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Dr. Mohamed Hamdi

Higher School of Communication of Tunis, Tunisia

Dr. Mohamed Hamdi (PhD, habilitation) co-authored more than 150 scientific publications published in international books, journals and conferences. He was the chair of the 'Cloud security' industry forum in the IEEE ICC'12 conference (Ottawa, Canada). Dr Hamdi passed prestigious professional certifications including the CISSP and the CISCO Security certifications...

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Prof. Faouzi Derbel

Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Faouzi Derbel is currently Professor for Smart Diagnostic and Online Monitoring within the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences Germany, since 2013. His research activities are focused on power aware design of wireless sensor networks and sensor systems with smart signal processing as well as state estimation of smart Grids.

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Dr. Tarek Chaari

ADDIXO, Tunisia

Dr Chaari is an associate professor in computer science at the National School of Electronics and Telecommunications in Tunisia where he teaches modeling and developing service-oriented, IoT and Big Data systems. He received a PhD in computer science in 2007 and a master'sdegreein 2003 from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon (France).

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Dr. Abdelfattah Obeid

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, KSA

Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs, National Center for Electronics, Communications and Photonics at KACST. Founded and leading the Advanced Microsensors Division of ECP that is charged with stimulating the development of microelectronic development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through provision of low cost manufacturing services in the region.

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Ing. Nizar Ellouze

Intellitech, Tunisia

Nizar Ellouze obtained an engineering degree in computer science from National School of Computer Sciences in Tunis. He is certified in Java and Hadoop. He has more than ten years experience working as a Software Developer in Java Server Applications using most common frameworks and architectures...

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Dr. Wajdi louati

ProCan, Tunisia

Wajdi LOUATI is an associate professor in Computer Science at the National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS). He received the MS and Ph.D Degrees in Computer Science from Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6). He is the founder of the ProCAN company, one of the leading cloud solution providers in Tunisia.

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Ing. Nizar Merteh

SOFIA HOLDING Group, Tunisia

Director of Business Development and Partnership of SOFIA HOLDING Group.
He graduated of the National School of Computer Sciences in 2004.
Nizar MERTEH has 14 years of experience on international projects in Automotive, Cloud, Business Applications, Internet of things

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Ing. Amine Chouaeib

Chifco, Tunisia

Founder of Chifco entreprise. Chifco is a Tunisian tech start up, specialized in developping Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) solutions.

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Dr. Mariem Turki

CES research Lab, Sfax, Tunisia

Dr. Turki received her PhD. in Computer Engineering from the National School of Engineers of Sfax. She is also a member of the research laboratory Computer & Embedded Systems (CES-Lab).

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Ing. Zied Loukil

Novel-Ti, Tunisia

Founder of Novel-Ti company. Novel-Ti is an engineering and consulting company in the Telecommunications and Multimedia sectors.

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Ing. Markus Schuss

Institute for Technical Informatics of Graz University of Technology, Austria

Ingineer in the Institute for Technical Informatics of Graz University of Technology, Austria

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Dr. Firas Jabloun

MASS Analytics, Tunisia

Firas has a Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineer from McGill University – Canada. He has more than 16 years work experience in software development, mathematical modelling, data analytics and artificial intelligence. Firas, also, co-founded MASS Analytics, a startup specialising in Data Analytics applied to marketing and in measuring the ROI of advertisement. He is serving as the Chief Technology Officer since 2014. He is also a Professor of engineering at MedTech (Mediterranean Institute of Technology).

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Dr. Manel Elleuchi

CES research Lab, Sfax, Tunisia

Dr. Manel Elleuchi received her PhD. in Computer Engineering from the National School of Engineers of Sfax. She is also a member of the research laboratory Computer & Embedded Systems (CES-Lab).

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Program 17-20 March 2018

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First Day
Second Day
Third Day
Fourth Day

March 17, 2018 – Welcome and IoT Standardization & Security

12:00 - 18:30: Registration
14 :30 - 15:00: Welcome and Opening
15:00 - 16:00: IoT and Smart City Standards
Dr. Bilel Jammoussi, ITU, Switzerland
16:00 - 17:00: Homomorphic encryption: Fundamentals and applications to IoT
Dr. Mohamed Hamdi, Sup’Com, Tunisia
17:00 - 18 :00: Service architecture standards and research prospects
Pr. Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France

March 18, 2018 – Communication and Embedded Systems for IoT

8:30 - 9:30: Building dependable IoT communication
Dr. Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz, Austria
9:30 – 10:30: End to end IoT solutions with ADDIXO LoRaWAN Platform
Dr. Tarak Chaari, ADDIXO, Tunisia
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00: Power-aware Wireless Sensor Networks for IoT
Pr. Faouzi Derbel, HTWK Leipzig, Germany
12:00 – 13:00: Development of Energy Aware Reconfigurable Node Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
Dr. Abdelfattah obeid, KACST, KSA
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 - 16-00: Workshop 1: Building low-power IoT applications using the TI CC2650 SensorTags and Contiki
Dr. Carlo Alberto Boano and Dr. Markus Schuss, TU Graz, Austria; Workshop 2: Training Deep Learning Architectures in Big Data Context
Pr. Hichem Snoussi, UTT, France; Workshop 7: Control plateform with IoT devices (Part I)
Dr. Mourad Masmoudi and Dr. Abderrahmen Guermazi, ISET-sfax, Tunisia
16:00 - 16-30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 18-00: Workshop 3: Create your first Internet of Things application in under 30 minutes with Python, Django, RFM95
Mr. Zied Loukil, CEO NOVELTI, Tunisia; Workshop 4: Automated monitoring application based on Node MCU platform
Dr. Mariam Turki and Dr. Manel Elleuchi, ENIS, Tunisia; Workshop 7: Control plateform with IoT devices (Part II)
Dr. Mourad Masmoudi and Dr. Abderrahmen Guermazi, ISET-sfax, Tunisia

March 19, 2018 – Cloud Computing and Big Data for IoT

8:30 - 9:00: Edge Computing for IoT
Dr. Wajdi Louati, PROCAN, Tunisia
9:00 - 10:00: Next-generation IoT Systems: Bringing IoT to the Edge of the Network
Dr. Sami Yangui, INSA Toulouse, France
10:00 - 10:30: Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30: Advances in data processing and machine learning in wireless networks
Pr. Hichem Snoussi, UTT, France
11:30- 12:30: Discovering Malicious Domains through Passive DNS Data Graph Analysis
Dr. Issa Mohammad Khalil, QCRI, Qatar
12:30 - 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 - 16-00: Workshop 5: Practice Watson IoT Platform with Smart Phone as IoT Data Source
Dr. Sami Yangui, INSA Toulouse, France; Workshop 2: Training Deep Learning Architectures in Big Data Context
Pr. Hichem Snoussi, UTT, France
16:00 - 16-30: Coffee Break
16:30 - 18-00: Workshop 6: Simple Sentiment Analysis Exemple using Hadoop MapReduce
Mr. Nizar Ellouze, CEO Intellitech, Tunisia; Workshop 1: Building low-power IoT applications using the TI CC2650 SensorTags and Contiki
Dr. Carlo Alberto Boano and Dr. Markus Schuss, TU Graz, Austria

March 20, 2018 - IoT Industrial applications and challenges

8:30 - 9:30: Challenges and opportunities of the Internet of Things, from technical to business issues
Pr. Roberto Minerva, Telecom Italia, Italy
9:30 – 10:30: IoT and Machine learning
Mr. Amine Chouaib, CEO Chifco, Tunisia; Marketing Analytics In The Retail Industry
Mr. Firas Jabloun, CTO Mass Analytics, Tunisia; Internet of Things: Smart agriculture use case powered by Sofia Holding
Mr. Nizar Merteh, Sofia Holding, Tunisia
10:30- 11 :30: Demo session: IoT applications
11:30 - 12:00: Closing and discussion