senZations: IoT retrospective
2006 – 2015 – …

Some statistics 2006 - 2015
§ Wireless sensor networks
§ Internet of Things

Evolving topics

Evolving devices
~ 20 EUR~ 200 EUR
2006 2015

Learning new things
Meeting new people
Discussing technical topics
Discussing everything else
Enjoying
Having fun

senZations in numbers
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40
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60
Students
Lecturers
Nations

We survived economic crisis…
§ Cloud computing

Novi Sad 2006
Warsaw 2007
Ljubljana 2008
Ohrid 2009
Rijeka 2010
Kotor 2011
Drvengrad 2012
Palic 2013
Biograd 2014
Belgrade 2015

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senZations’15
§ 40 participants from 15 countries
§ 19 lecturers, from universities and industry
● Lectures + experimental work
● Technology track
● Business track
● Combined work in groups (teams)
○ Business and technology views mixed
○ Friday
○ Open day
○ Public presentation of team assignments

senZations’15
§ Great food, music and atmosphere!

senZations’15
§ But it was hard work, too!

Future plans
§ Stay attractive to the best students
§ Increase multidisciplinary participation
§ Differentiate from the copy cats!
§ Involve makers community and business users

Future plans

Future plans

From technology to business
Team assignments
Collaborate, build, test, present, win!

Student Assignments
§ We have started with individual assignments but
quickly switched to team work.
§ Motto: Be creative!
§ Deadline: Friday lunch time
§ Presentations: Friday afternoon
§ Jury: Lecturers + audience
§ Awards
• From bottle of wine to a hardware kit

Student Assignments
§ Novel applications
§ Business angle
• Assess the solution from a business point of view
• Create a business case, how to bring it to market
§ Present in an interesting way
• Think pitching to investors
§ Presentations are public, with external audience
• Impress them.

Team Assignment 2015
§ Novel IoT solutions for urban environment that you
would like to use in your neighborhood
§ Joint undertaking of technology and business students
§ Use available hardware kits and software
• SocIoTal platform and tools
• IoT Lab application
• Compose tools
• Microsoft Azure tools

Enjoy!

10th Anniversary Awards
§ Dr Alexander Gluhak
§ For great IoT and wine
expertise
§ Dr Gordana Nikolic
§ For taking care of the fun
part of the school