Subject: [gaia] Training Course ICTP

From: Jane Coffin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:08:26 +0000

Hi All –

Please see the data below about an ICTP training course (ICTP = International Centre for Theoretical Physics).  ISOC and many others have worked with and strongly support ICTP’s work.  They have helped us train folks (RF and mesh deployment), they work with people from around the world to deploy networks, and ICTP has an excellent campus in Trieste (amazing place with some of the best coffee on the planet).

Note that with their dormitories and other facilities – they also are an excellent option for workshops where you might want to bring folks in from around the world.  Data below is courtesy of Marco Zennaro from ICTP - many of you will know him from the IOT, mesh, and other work he has done.  And, the same goes for one of Marco’s partners at ICTP - Ermanno Pietrosemoli - who founded EsLaRed, WALC, and is an Internet Hall of Famer among other things.

Best,

Jane

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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

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