Subcommittee on  (Wireless) Sensor Networks in Industrial & Factory Automation

Chairs:
Frank Golatowski, University of Rostock, Germany
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy

Scope: Design and Implementation of sensors and actuators; Development Environments and Tools; Energy Control; Hardware/Software; Data Integration and Fusion; Algorithms; Wireless Integrated Networked Sensors, Wideband Networked Sensors, System Architecture; Power Management, Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control, Time Synchronization, Distributed Localization Algorithms Routing, Distributed Signal Processing, Software Development, Security.
 

Frank Golatowski is with the excellence centre on life science automation CELISCA where he is leading the research group on wireless sensor network. His works aims at transferring research results gathered in the field of wireless sensor networks into life science automation. He is responsible for courses on “Real-Time Systems”, “Embedded Systems”, and “Networked Embedded Systems” at Rostock University. His current research interests are in the field of wireless sensor networks, ambient intelligence, and device-centric service-oriented architectures. He was a senior research assistant of electrical engineering at University of Rostock, where he built-up real-time systems group and the mobile robotics lab. He took part with his team “CoolRUNners” at various RoboCup competitions (e.g. world championship) and received leading places.  He was chair of a series of special sessions on service-oriented architectures (INDIN, IECON) in converged networks and is now chair of SOCNE workshop. He served as a PC member and reviewer of various conferences (e.g. ETFA, INDIN, IECON, AINA) and reviewer or editorial board member of Trans. of Industrial Informatics, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, and EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. He worked as a reviewer for European Commission and Belgium public authority.

In 2006 he received the ITEA achievement award for outstanding contributions in the SIRENA project (www.itea2.org) on service-oriented infrastructures. He initiated the WS4D Open Source initiative ws4d.org for deploying web services based solutions for embedded systems.

Dr. Golatowski received Dipl.-Ing degree (1989) in Cybernetics and Automation and a Doctorate degree (1998) in Computer Engineering from University of Rostock, Germany.

Contact email address: f.golatowski@iestcfa.org

 

                              

Lucia Lo Bello is Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of Catania. Her research interests include wireless networks and sensor networks, factory communication, distributed process control, real-time industrial embedded systems, energy-aware protocols.

She received the M.D. in Electronic Engineering in 1994 and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 1998, both from the University of Catania. She was a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Engineering of Seoul National University, South Korea (2000-01) with a post-doctoral position.

She has served on a number of program committees of distinguished international conferences in the area of factory communication, industrial embedded systems and real-time systems, being also General Chair and Program Co-Chair of some of them.

She is reviewer for several international journals, included IEEE/IES Transactions on Industrial Informatics and Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Real-Time Systems Journal, ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems. She is responsible for the University of Catania of the flexWARE Project, Flexible Wireless Automation in Real-Time Environments and the ARTISTDesign NoE on Embedded Systems Design, both projects funded by the European Commission within the 7 FP.

Member of the IEC Subcommittee 65C, WG 11, she partecipated to the standardization of Real-Time Ethernet.

She is the recipient of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2008 Early Career Award.

She published more than 90 technical papers on international conferences, books and journals in the area of wireless sensor networks, factory communication, real-time systems and distributed systems.

Contact email address: l.lobello@iestcfa.org