Smart Devices and Systems Workshop

Smart Devices and Systems Workshop

Monday May 8, 2017
1:30pm - 4:30pm
Room: 3

AGENDA

• 1:30pm - 2:30pm Smart Devices & Systems – What’s in the Works?
  
  With a robust digital infrastructure, premier clinical and research institutions, educational and workforce development options, and entrepreneurial support organizations, Northeast Ohio is an ideal location for companies focused on smart devices and systems. Our region has become a hotbed of these companies as well as world-class institutions deeply involved with the Internet of Things (IoT). This growing cluster of companies and institutions is poised to leverage emerging opportunities, as our IoT infrastructure enables the realization of Smart Buildings, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Healthcare, Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation applications.

  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm Smart Device and Systems Cluster – A Regional Collaboration to focus on all things IoT, Rick Earles Senior Director of Industry and Innovation, Team NEO

  • 2:00pm - 2:30pm Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS) Institute – Case Western Reserve University: Kenneth Loparo, Nord Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science CWRU

• 2:30pm - 3:30pm IoT Cybersecurity “At the Edge”, Robert Eckman, Chief Information Security Officer, MCPc
  
  The smart device level (“the edge”) of an IoT system is considered the most vulnerable level from a cyber security basis. In the edge-of-network IoT applications, an integrated hybrid hardware/software approach is proving to be the preferred method of providing security for the system. According to the folks at Electronicsofthing.com blog: “A hardware-first approach with respect to security and implementation of necessary functionality on SoC level is vital for fully securing devices and platforms such as FPGAs, wearables, smartphones, tablets and other intelligent appliances.” Hybrid concepts will be presented.
• 3:30pm - 4:30pm Wireless Power (+comms + security), Mike Ward, Linear ASICs and Wireless Power Consortium

  
  According to the Forbes contributor David Ferris, “Wireless charging, also known as inductive charging, has existed for years in devices like electric toothbrushes. But actual contact between charger and device was required until 2006, when Marin Soljačić, a professor at MIT, demonstrated that he could light a lamp from a distance of six feet without a power cord.” This represents the next big trend in smart devices which will grow with ever more functionality when communications and cyber security is added to the mix. The activities supported by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) and the integration and promise of this portfolio of technologies will be explored.

  • What is the Wireless Power Consortium Up To

  • Communications Integrated Into Wireless Charging

  • A Hardware Implementation of Cybersecurity into Wireless Charging and Power

SPEAKERS:

Rick Earles
Senior Director of Industry and Innovation
Team NEO


Robert Eckman
Chief Information Security Officer
MCPc

Kenneth Loparo 
Nord Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science CWRU

Mike Ward