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TUESDAY - MAY 10, 2005  
 Welcome & Registration: From 09.00
   
The ZigBee Standart
Sensor Networks Markets and Applications
   
Sensor Network Systems
   
     
 
WEDNESDAY - MAY 11, 2005  
 Welcome & Registration: From 08.45
Opening Remark

Brett Sheppard
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Bob Heile, ZigBee Alliance

Getting Started
With ZigBee
SESSION 2

Standard Progress
     

ZigBee State of the
Union 2005

DEBATE

ZigBee Deployment
Issues
     

 
THURSDAY - MAY 12, 2005  
 Welcome & Coffee: From 08.45
       
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Robert Poor
SESSION 3

Chip Architecture
SESSION 4

System Management
and Networking
SESSION 5

Power Conservation Issues
       
     
FRIDAY - MAY 13, 2005  
 Welcome & Coffee: From 08.45
   
   
Applications Requirements
ZigBee in the Industry
 
     
   
    TECHNICAL TUTORIAL - TUESDAY - MAY 10, 2005
     
09.00   Welcome and Registration
     
    TUTORIAL PRESENTED BY

José A. Gutierrez, Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems and Communications, Innovation Center, Eaton Corporation
Lama Nachman, Researcher - System Architect, Intel Corporation
John A Green, Consultant, IC2 Institute
     
    TUTORIAL OVERVIEW BY Brett Sheppard, CEO and Founder, Absolutely Inc.
     
10.00   The ZigBee Standard

The IEEE 802.15.4 Standard and ZigBee Specification


Introduction to Low-cost and Low-power Wireless Sensor Networks
802.15.4 & ZigBee
IEEE WPAN Standards Overview
The ZigBee Alliance

Overview of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard
What is 802.15.4? Why one more wireless standard?

The Physical Layer


The MAC Layer
Enhanced capabilities

The ZigBee Specification
ZigBee Architecture
ZigBee Protocol Stack - The ZigBee 5-layer Model
Network Layer
Application Support Layer
The ZigBee Device Object

ZigBee Security
Security issues pertaining to ZigBee
Security modes, MAC security, network security, and APS security

Implementing Applications
Writing ZigBee applications and application profiles

The Future

José A. Gutierrez,
Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems and Communications, Innovation Center, Eaton Corporation
     
11.00   Coffee Break
     
11.30   Sensor Network Systems

Overview of wireless sensor networks and applications
Introduction to Intel’s mote platforms
Software stack
Open source
TinyOS and TinyDB operating systems
Preview of Intel’s near term release of a sensor networks platform based on Intel Xscale architecture.

Lama Nachman, Researcher - System Architect, Intel Corporation
     
12.15   Lunch
   
14.00   Sensor Networks Markets and Applications

Established Markets and Applications
Building Automation
Industrial Automation
Home Control
Potential Markets and Applications
Multimedia
Voice and Data
Remote Monitoring for life, health and property
Other Potential Applications
Venture Capital and Corporate Capital Investment Examples
Where is Revenue Being Made?

John A Green, College Instructor, IC2 Institute
     
16.00   End of the Tutorial
     
   
    CONFERENCE DAY ONE - WEDNESDAY - MAY 11, 2005
     
   
CHAIRMAN

Brett Sheppard
CEO and Founder
Absolutely Inc.
     
09.00   Welcome and Registration
     
09.30   ZigBee State of the Union 2005
     
    OPENING REMARK BY Brett Sheppard, CEO and Founder, Absolutely Inc.
   
10.00  
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Bob Heile

Chairman ZigBee Alliance and
802.15a IEEE Working Group

     
10.30   Coffee Break
   
    session 1: Getting Started with ZigBee
     
11.00   ZigBee Enterprise Customer Perspectives

Why ZigBee? Network and Application Value
Results of Commercial Deployments
Case Study

Claudio Borean,
Access Network & Terminals System Design, Telecom Italia Lab
     
11.30   How to Start Successfully a ZigBee Project?

Hardware and software issues.
Dealing with complexity.
How to avoid technical traps.

Gabriel Chegaray, Consultant, Galeha

     
12.00   Lunch
   
    session 2: Standard Progress
     
14.00   ZigBee Standards Update

Introducing the audience to the design of the IEEE 802.15.4 physical and MAC layers, as well as the ZigBee architectural design that forms the complete solution. Overviewing the key ingredients that makes the mesh-based networking a low-cost and robust system.

José A. Gutierrez, Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems and Communications, Innovation Center, Eaton Corporation
     
14.30   ZigBee and the 802 family: The Future of WPAN

The relationship between ZigBee and the 802 family of IEEE standards
The current regulatory environment for ZigBee and WPAN
Why create the 802.15 High Rate Alternative PHY Task Group (TG3A) for
Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Expected applications of ZigBee-based WPANs
Network Alliances affected by ZigBee

Corey P. Carbonara, Ph.D., Director, Digital Communication Technologies Project
Professor, Telecommunication Division, Baylor University
     
15.00   IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4 IETF

Increasing adoption of the IEEE 802.15.4 specification for sensor networks underlines the need for an open standard regarding a more complete solution enabling communications between LoWPAN devices. The IETF 6LoWPAN BOF was formed to tackle some of these challenges. Discussing the challenges and illustrating the current status of this effort.

Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Intel, co-chair of the IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4 IETF
Working Ggroup
     
15.30   A Comparison of ZigBee with other WPAN Technologies

WiFi
WiMAX and Wi-Media
MBWA
Ad-hoc mesh networks and peer-to-peer environments
RFID

Corey P. Carbonara, Ph.D., Baylor University
     
16.00   Heterogeneity in Wireless Sensor Networks

Why one would need heterogeneity in wireless sensor networks, types of heterogeneity, heterogeneity architecture, software approach to heterogeneity, real world applications that can benefit from heterogeneous sensor networks and performance of heterogeneous networks.

Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Intel, co-chair of the IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4 IETF Working Ggroup
     
16.30   Coffee Break
   
17.00   PANEL Debate
     
    ZigBee Deployment Issues

What’s working now versus what’s needed soon from technical and business considerations
Role of ZigBee managed service providers
     
    CHAIRMAN

Brett Sheppard, CEO and Founder, Absolutely Inc.

PARTICIPANTS


Bob Heile,
Chairman ZigBee Alliance and 802.15a IEEE Working Group
José A. Gutierrez, Innovation Center, Eaton Corporation
Lama Nachman, Intel Research and System Technology Lab, Intel Corporation
Sandra Lucia Wear, CEO and President, Atalum
Carl Williams, Senior Staff Architect, KDDI Labs USA, IPv6 Forum Fellow
Sokwoo Rhee, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Millennial Net, Millennial Net
Graham Martin, Director Business Development, Chipcon AS
Zachary Smith, Chief Software Architect, Ember Corp., Technical Editor, ZigBee Alliance
Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Intel, co-chair of the IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4 IETF WG
Robert Poor, CTO, Ember Corporation
     
     
   
 
 
 
Bob Heile
 
Lama Nachman
 
Carl Williams
 
Brett Sheppard
             
 
 
 
Zachary Smith
 
José A. Gutierrez
 
Sokwoo Rhee
 
N. Kushalnagar
 
       
Robert Poor
           
           
     
18.00   End of Day One
     
   
    CONFERENCE DAY TWO - THURSDAY - MAY 12, 2005
     
   
CHAIRMAN

John A. Green

Consultant
IC2 Institute
     
08.45   Welcome and Coffee
     
09.30  
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Robert Poor
CTO, Ember Corporation

   
    session 3: Chip Architecture
     
10.00   Implementation of Cost-Effective and Low-Power RF-ICs for IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee

Focusing on trends and challenges in the development of cost-effective and low-power RF-ICs for IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee systems. True System-on-Chips (SoCs) will become increasingly important due to reduced system cost and power consumption.

Graham Martin, Director Business Development, Chipcon AS, Norway
     
10.30   Coffee Break
   
    session 4: System Management and Networking
     
11.00   The ZigBee Network Layer

Exploring network layer functionality in ZigBee - including network formation and overall network structure, addressing, and routing. Discussing how cost-performance tradeoffs inherent in the various target applications are addressed.

Zachary Smith, Chief Software Architect, Ember Corporation, Technical Editor, ZigBee Alliance
     
11.30  

Deployment Scenarios of IPv6 sensors for Smart Homes

Discussing how Internet Development will influence ZigBee technologies and the sensor industry. Wireless Sensor Networks, Remote sensing, Smart Homes, Ad hoc networks, Mobile devices, Consumer Electronics, Home appliances and RFIDs are some of the applications that will see the light with IPv6 and dwarf current network concepts into oblivion.

Carl Williams, Senior Staff Architect, KDDI Labs USA, IPv6 Forum Fellow

     
12.00   Lunch
     
14.00   Full Mesh Networking: Example Cases for Outdoor and Indoor Lighting

Demonstration of ZigBee mesh networks, with the example applications of emergency lighting, outdoor street lighting and indoor lighting. As part of a network demonstration, the talk addresses system and deployment topics related to a completely meshed network.

Niek Van Dierdonck,
Managing Director, Ubiwave
     
14.30   Software Options for Mesh Networking

Describing hardware-independent ZigBee software options for mesh networking, monitoring, and control of devices and sensors.

Srini Krishnamurthy,
VP Business Development, Airbee Wireless, Inc.
     
15.00   Applications of ZigBee Technology and Status of Deployment in Korea

Presenting applications using ZigBee technology, which would be focused on Ubiquitous Sensor Network for Home Networks. SamSung's application offering for Home Sensor networks is presented. Introducing the deployment status for the Korean industry and ZigBeeTechnology.

Hee Jean Kim,
Ph.D., Senior Member of Research Staff, SamSung Advanced Institute of Technology Secretary, SWG (Security Work Group), ZigBee Alliance
     
15.30   Coffee Break
   
    session 5: Power Conservation Issues
     
16.00   Factors Limiting Power Conservation

The ZigBee specification is designed to support very low-power operation of networked devices. In order to achieve such low-power operation, however, the device itself must be designed with low-power operation in mind. Discussing the factors limiting power conservation in typical ZigBee implementations, and steps necessary to achieve long battery life.

Ed Callaway, Ph.D., P.E., Board Member, Zigbee Alliance, Fellow of the Technical Staff, Motorola Labs
     
16.30   Strategies of Saving Power in Wireless Networks based on IEEE 802.15.4 / ZigBeeTM

Background of IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBeeTM
Requirements of a wireless sensor network
Strategies for saving power
Asynchronous and synchronous sensor networks
Summary and recommendations

Authors:
Dr.-Ing. Gerald Kupris, Freescale Halbleiter GmbH, München
Prof. Dr. Werner Buff, senTec Elektronik GmbH, Ilmenau
     

17.00

  End of Day Two
     
   
    CONFERENCE DAY THREE - FRIDAY - MAY 13, 2005
     
   
CHAIRMAN

Carl Williams
Senior Staff Architect, KDDI Labs USA
IPv6 Forum Fellow
     
09.00   Welcome and Coffee
   
    session 6: Applications Requirements
     
10.00   Platform Requirements and Deployments

Describing deployments (Condition based monitoring in Intel Fab, Water pipeline monitoring with Boston Water Authority, BP ship, etc). Discussing the application, the platform requirement and covering some data from real deployment issues.

Lama Nachman, Wireless Researcher / System Architect, Intel Corporation
     
10.30   Coffee Break
     
11.00   Real-World Application of Wireless Sensor Networks

Exploring several case studies of the use of wireless sensor networking for industrial automation, building energy management and medical monitoring. In each case study, the business and technical challenge are outlined. Next the application is profiled and the primary and secondary designed drivers is identified. The wireless sensor network “solution” is explored with a look at the network topology and critical implementation details. Finally the deployed solution is discussed.

Sokwoo Rhee, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Millennial Net, Millennial Net
     
11.30   Economic Analysis

Data from the world’s largest Honeywell dealer as to why every controls supplier world wide needs ZigBee.
Investing in ZigBee – F8W is the first venture-backed company to have a successful exit in the ZigBee space.

John D. Morris, VP of Marketing with Figure 8 Wireless
     
12.00   Supporting Heterogeneous Networking via a Zigbee Gateway

Presenting an overview of different types of connections between ZigBee networks and the outside world, and how these connections map into common use cases for wireless sensor networks.

Paul Sereiko, CEO & President, Sensicast Systems
     
12.30   Lunch
     
14.00   Examples of Real-life Applications and System Deployments

Examples real-life applications and system deployments
Home Awareness
Building Automation
Industrial Products

José A. Gutierrez, Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems and Communications, Innovation Center, Eaton Corporation
     
14.30   ZigBee to Consumer Advertising Link

What is happening to the media advertising model (Tivo, DVRs, etc.)
How networks create value (how Metcalfe's Law actually works)
Possible roles and scenarios for ZigBee in the home media/advertising
environment
Privacy concerns and practical ways to deal with them
Applications to drive ZigBee diffusion in the consumer marketplace.

Michael Korpi, Ph.D., Baylor University
     
     
15.00   Opportunities for Proprietary Value-add To ZigBee Systems

· Nanotron overview
· What should be a standard, and what should be proprietary
· Success cases from early commercial deployments

Dr. Jens Albers, CEO, Nanotron
   
    session 7: ZigBee in the Industry
     
15.30   Implementing ZigBee Networks in Existing Industrial Automation Systems

Explaining the various components necessary, including hardware and software, to add ZigBee networks on the factory floor in such a way that the existing application software can seamlessly include the ZigBee networked devices along with the non-ZigBee networked devices.

Tim Cutler, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Cirronet Inc
     
16.00   Industrial Market Applications

Describing the technical architectures for industrial plant monitoring ZigBee applications.

Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
     
16.30   Coffee
     
17.00   End of the Conference