Wake-up radio and presentation of Veder Prize

When:

10 June 2014

18:30 Hour - 21:30 Hour

Event organizer:Telecommunications

Scientific Radio Fund

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Veder Fund Foundation

Description

We would like to cordially invite you to KIVI Telecommunications' theme meeting "Wake-up radio". The development in the field of Internet of Things is going fast and includes sensors, wearables in clothing for fun and on the body for medical applications. The energy supply for such devices needs to be kept very low; this requires new ways of communication.
This thematic meeting deals with ways of communication that require very low energy and can still connect to sensors, for example.

The 2013 Veder Prize will be awarded during this meeting. Every year, the Stichting Wetenschappelijk Radiofonds Veder awards the so-called Vederprijs to individuals who have made pioneering contributions in the field of radio and telecommunications science. At this meeting, the prize will be awarded to dr.ir. Maarten Lont.
Dr.ir. Maarten Lont (Holst Centre / IMEC-NL, formerly TU Eindhoven) will explain his work in this area, based on his PhD work entitled "Wake-up Receiver Based Ultra-Low-Power WBAN".
Prof Guido Dolmans Senior Researcher, Program manager ULP Wireless at Holst Centre / Imec-NL will give a presentation on research on wake-up radios.

What are Wake-up radios?
In wireless sensor systems, the amount of data exchanged is very limited. And the duty cycle is also often large. That means sending some data quickly for a while and then nothing for a long time. If you then look where most of the energy goes, it's not in the transmitter (it's only on for a while), but in the receiver. It has to listen all the time. We have now found a solution - wake-up radio. A wake-up radio actually consists of two types of radio receivers. One that only detects whether it is transmitting (and therefore uses little energy) and one that receives the signals and decodes the data. The latter radio does use much more energy, but is only switched on when the low-energy radio receives something (wakes up, as it were). As a result, it uses much less energy on average.

After this meeting, you are welcome to join us for informal drinks

18.30 h Reception with coffee and tea
19.00 h Welcome, chairman KIVI Telecommunications Department
19.10 h Explanation Veder Prize, Ms F. Kosters, chairman Vederfonds
19.20 h "Wake-up radios", Prof Guido Dolmans
19.45 h Body area network with an emphasis on radio, Rik van de Wiel
20.10 h Considerans and award ceremony, Board member Vederfonds
20.30 h "Wake-up Receiver Based Ultra-Low-Power WBAN", dr.ir. Maarten Lont
21.00 Drinks
21.30 End of meeting

Speaker(s)

Maarten Lont was born Steinheim, Germany, in 1983. After finishing high school "VWO" at the "Merewade College" in Gorinchem, The Netherlands, he started the Bachelor Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2002. He received his Bachelor and Master of science in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and 2008 respectively. For his Master thesis project he designed implemented and evaluated a 60GHz VCO at NXP research in Eindhoven.
In 2008 he started pursuing a PhD degree on the design of low-power Wake-up Receivers at Eindhoven University of Technology with close cooperation with IMEC-NL. After his PhD study he joined IMEC-NL in the wireless group as a full-time researcher in 2012, where he is working on low-power transceiver architectures.

Guido Dolmans received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1992 and
the Ph.D. degree in 1997, from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He worked at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven from 1997 to 2006. Currently, he is a R&D Manager/Senior Principal Scientist for Holst
Centre/imec in the ULP Wireless group. He is also a part-time professor at TU/e.