[kictanet] Fwd: [afren] IoT School at ICTP — grants available

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

Might be of interest to some.

Best Regards
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From: <mzennaro at ictp.it>
Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:13 PM
Subject: [afren] IoT School at ICTP — grants available
To: afren at afnog.org


Joint ICTP-IAEA School on LoRa Enabled Radiation and Environmental
Monitoring Sensors

Date: 23 April to 11 May 2018
Venue: ICTP, Trieste, Italy

LoRa is a long range, low power networking solution recently developed for
the Internet of Things (IoT). In the workshop we will learn about the
underlying technology and protocols and we will develop scientific
instrumentation with LoRa chips.

A LoRa network can connect a plethora of tiny battery powered LoRa sensors
and devices within a few kilometers and even up to 150 km with line of
sight. With complete LoRa modules available from $5 USD the cost of
instrumenting huge areas and cities with real-time environmental sensor
networks has diminished substantially.

In this school the participants will develop and construct instrumentation
and sensors equipped or embedded with LoRa chip and they will deploy and
analyse the data from a LoRa enabled sensor network across the ICTP campus
and in Trieste.

The power of the technology to rely on long distance, low power (battery or
rechargeable/ renewable) technologies is of considerable interest to the
environmental monitoring of cities and agricultural environments.

Topics:
• LoRa and LoRaWAN protocols;
• Prototyping of sensor boards;
• Coding of LoRa sensors;
• Planning and deployment of a LoRa network;
• Collection, analysis and the visualization of the data.

A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of
selected participants, with priority given to participants from Developing
Countries. Additional grants for students from Developing Countries
formally enrolled in a PhD programme are available thanks to Sigcomm’s
support.

Online application: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8298/

Application deadline: February 26, 2018

Best,
Marco

Marco Zennaro, PhD // Research Officer // T/ICT4D Lab // ICTP //
wireless.ictp.it


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