The document discusses using wireless sensor networks for remote condition monitoring and asset optimization. It describes how sensor networks can integrate various types of sensors, mobile devices, and manual inputs to provide real-time visibility, event monitoring, and optimization of complex systems like terminals, ports, and transportation assets. The sensor fabric allows integrating data from different sources to provide a common operating picture and optimize business processes.
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SmartSantander: Punto de encuentro entre la investigación en la Internet del Futuro y la Smart City.
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Describes key network elements and interfaces of LTE architecture. The steps of LTE/EPC Attach procedure are also illustrated.
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Jay Romero, Sr. Director, IT Operations , Erickson Living
Come and learn how Erickson Living achieved deployment success using Cisco ME4600 based GPON Solution. Guest Presenter: Jay Romero, Sr.Director - IT Operations. Passive Optical Networks (PON) provides an effective and efficient way of providing fiber based high speed access to residential and business users. With the ever-growing demand for higher bandwidth, service providers are looking for fiber solutions that are cost-effective and easy to deploy and manage. This session will provide an insight into PON technology, with a focus on Gigabit-Capable PON. Attendees will learn basic design principles and applicable use cases for architecting a GPON Network using the Cisco ME4600 OLT and ONT/ONU. The presentation will outline the requirements to configure and verify an end-to-end service over ME4600 OLT. Redundancy mechanisms, such as Type B protection, in a GPON based environment will also be covered Attendees will walk away from this session with a firm understanding of the GPON technology, a clear view of applicability of GPON vs point-to-point ethernet for varius scenarios and reference designs for an effective, fast and reliable GPON network using Cisco ME4600 series of OLT and ONT products.
LTE Measurement: How to test a device
This course provides an overview with practical examples and exercises on how to test a LTE-capable device while performing standardized RF measurements such as power, signal quality, spectrum and receier sensitivity, and how to automate these measurements in a simple and cost-effective way. We will present testing of LTE handsets in terms of protocol signaling scenarios and handover to other radio technologies for interoperability. This course will demonstrate end-to-end (E2E), throughput and application testing using the Rohde & Schwarz R&S®CMW500 Wideband Radio Communication Tester. Examles of application tests are voice over LTE, (VoLTE) or Video over LTE.
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Jay Romero, Sr. Director, IT Operations , Erickson Living
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LTE Measurement: How to test a device
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With an strong background in the electronics, embedded and software industry our team is committed to bring innovation to the European WSN industry.
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Components and infrastructure needed to control systems
Monitoring and troubleshooting
Management of information obtained by the control system
Management and alarms.
Sending information for maintenance purposes.
Security of the Installation.
Fundamental characteristics required in a surveillance system.
Protection systems against theft.
Anti‐intrusion systems.
CCTV and video surveillance.
e‐Rounds.
Remote control systems.
Security in PV roofs.
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My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
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Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
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Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
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- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
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• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
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2. Which is Correct ?
1. A "Mote" is a fairy character
in William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
2. A “Mote” a small particle; a speck
Term was first used by Kris Pister to describe his Smart Dust
radio/sensors Term was later adopted by Dave Culler (TinyOS
author)
3. A “Mote” is a Wireless Mesh Low Power Sensor Node,
in a wireless sensor network that is capable of performing some
processing, gathering sensory information and communicating with
other connected nodes in the network* .
*Wikipedia
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3. What is a Mote?
Technology:
• Hardware Components:
RTD100 from Sensicast
– Active radio frequency transceiver
• 433MHz, 900MHz, 2.4GHz
• 19.2kbps - 250kbps EMS100 from Sensicast
• 200 – 1000 feet LOS, outdoors
– 8- ,16-, 32-bit Microprocessor
• 8051, TI MSP430, Atmel ATmega128L,
ARM920T
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Tmote Sky/TelosB
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from MoteIV/Crossbow
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– Embedded programmable runtime:
• Executes protocols: MAC, network,
security Mica2 from Crossbow
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• Mostly proprietary
• TinyOS/TinyDB & MANTIS open
source
Sun SPOT from Sun
• C-like programming, Java is emerging
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- wheel bearing temperature trends + other sensors
- operational data - manifest verification,
car drop-off location and time, freight condition
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events, alerts and alarms to
locomotives local crews and the enterprise
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economics
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–Real-time data
–Online processing Bearing
temperature
Weight
railcar distribution
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10. Scenarios used to design the WSN Rail system (partial)
1. Hot Box Detection* 12. Gateway and MOTE Network
2. Air Pressure and Brake Monitoring Remote Management,
3. EOT Function Configuration and Auto
Provisioning*
4. Wayside Gateway 13. Installation and Testing
5. Order of Cars in Consist (and 14. Repair and Replace in Field
orientation) 15. Emergency Messages, Event
6. Determine Length of Consist Notification*
16. Send External Notifications
7. Connect/Disconnect Car Detection
17. Capture and relay sensor readings
8. Dark Car Drive By* and control parameters*
9. Access Customer Cargo Data 18. Carry experimental data from ad
hoc sensor platforms
10. Intrusion/Tampering Detection
19. Hazmat Location, Condition and
11. Determine Weight of Train Tamper Detection
20. Bio/Chem/Rad Detection
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Temperature
Weight
Vibration
Speed Location
Acoustics – (flat wheel)
Tampering – (open Lid)
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roles and modes
• Sensing Configuration • Periodic Reporting
– Additional bearing sensors attached – Technique used to improve reliability and
sensor interface reduce energy consumption
– Air pressure-based power subsystem – Basic concept is to trade-off latency for
reliability
– Does not perform routing
– Applicable to applications that have a
• Forwarding Configuration latency tolerance greater than real-time
– No bearing sensors attached to sensor
interface
• Alert Reporting
– Technique used to report critical events in
– Solar-based power subsystem near “real-time”
– Performs routing – Requires low latency
forwarding mote
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orientation, sensor data, calculated data and alarms
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Walmart
Fire Department
Military
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23. WSN Solutions require Mote platforms that are complex
• Main modules: Tmote, Power-
Memory-Interface (PMI) board, solar
panel, sensor board, and GPS module
• All other components are integrated on Mote
the PMI or are connected to the
external sensor interface Analog Control I2C UART Vcc/
I/O I/O Bus Bus Gnd
• Modular design: Tmote, sensor board,
power scavenging with solar panels, or 5 5 2 2 2
any of the external sensors can be
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micro screw I/O terminal
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24. Six steps to Deployments for North America
1. Lab Prototype (November, 2006. through November, 2007): Initial Mote
implementation working in lab setting, but not necessarily in a railroad environment.
Gateway integrated with Motes. Interim deliverable (TBD) late June (consist join/dis-
join, dark car)
2. Field Testing (February, 2008 through August, 2008): MOTEs enclosed to operate in
a railroad environment. Measurements and evaluation exercises in a controlled railroad
here environment. Gateway to enterprise communications implemented. Both wayside and
engine-hosted gateway configurations will be tested. Validation of business case.
3. Deployment Prototype (March, 2008 – October, 2008): MOTE hardware redesign for
reduced manufacturing cost incorporating lessons learned during field testing.
Continued improvement and refinement of Gateway to/from enterprise inter-operation,
and integration to enterprise systems.
4. Pilot Deployment (November, 2008 – June, 2009): Initial deployment of MOTE sensor
network into an operational environment on a limited basis to continue to identify and
correct hardware, software, and system short-fallings. Identify and correct any
emerging performance issues with the system. Re-validation of business case.
5. Production Platform Manufacturing (concurrent with Pilot Deployment): Working
with one or more manufacturers of devices (MoteIV, Arch Rock, Crossbow). Additional
engineering challenges need to be identified and addressed. Any production platform
must be made with a standardized sensor and power interface as specified by the
architecture.
6. Production Roll-out (TBD): equip railcars with MOTEs and sensor packages, install
rail-side gateways, and start installing engine gateways.
24
25. Thank You -- Questions ?
John Dorn
Wireless Sensor Networks Solutions
Condition Monitoring, Asset Optimization
+1 917-453-9863
jzdorn@us.ibm.com
25
27. Event Optimization:
the Next Generation of Condition Monitoring
5. Business Optimization
4. Process Integration
3. Event optimization
2. Event publication
• events, alerts and alarms integrated with operational
processes
1. Continuous real-time capture and analysis of
critical and periodic sensor data
• operational data - manifest verification, car drop-off
location and time, freight condition
• temperature trends + other sensors
• video events and OCR
• RFid events and data
28. The Bigger Picture – from Railinc.
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Short line Mainl Regional
Main
line
A
Shipper Short line Class 1 Car Owner Car Owner Class 1 Regional Consignee
Intermediate Switches Municipalities Intermodal Carriers
Other car owners Federal and State Organizations
Car Repair
International Entities UPS
Walmart
Fire Department
Military
30. From patent application
Architectural Approach: Big Building Blocks
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M
Intra-Mote Wireless Mote wired interface
Protocol (read/write primitive data
registers)
Multi-hop Mote to Mote
Rail Customer
on Rail Cars
M M M Container Controllers
and M
on Customer assets sensor Analog/Digital Sensor
sensor
interfaces
31. Example layout of Rfid readers at a rail facility
Approximately
22 Points of
Interests
Each RFiD point
of interest needs a
fixed reader and a
communications
infrastructure
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32. WSNs can have continuous monitoring and periodic event
reporting based on a set of rules or conditions that you can
specify and change remotely….
Approximately
22 Points of
Interests
Each RFid point of
interest needs a
fixed reader and a
communications
infrastructure
with WSN
Each Point of
interest can be
a set of
calculated
events that are
programmed
into the
Wireless Sensor
Network and
these events
can be changed
remotely
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33. Some of the Challenges
• Very Low power (<40mW) needs Supercaps batteries,
small size, cost is ?
• Wireless receive and transmit, 1mW -10mW and
internal vs external antennas
• Packaging, mounting, low tech installation, field
replacement
• Remotely provisioned, configured on demand, by
location
• Remotely managed over a 5+ year life - without being
touched
• Power scavenging, charging multiple type cells, and
distribution of power to components, sensors
• Very Harsh environment – Low and Very Hot temps.
• Complex event processing at the enterprise
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