SC1 – Resilience in Outdoor Internet of Things

Lecturer: Anna Förster
Fields: Internet of Things, Machine Learning

Content

This course will offer an overview of the problems and challenges associated with outdoor deployments of internet of things (IoT) applications. After a short introduction to the field of IoT and the discussion of various outdoor applications, we will dive deeper into the threats IoT applications face in these environments. We will showcase some concrete threats and discuss possible solutions and approaches.

Lecturer

Anna Förster obtained her MSc degree in computer science and aerospace engineering from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 2004 and her PhD degree in self-organising sensor networks from the University of Lugano, Switzerland, in 2009. She also worked as a junior business consultant for McKinsey&Company, Berlin, between 2004 and 2005. From 2010 to 2014, she was a researcher and lecturer at SUPSI (the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland). Since 2015, she leads the Sustainable Communication Networks group at the University of Bremen. Currently, she serves as Director of the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center (BSCC) and as a board member of the Center for Computing Technology (TZI). Her main research interests lie in the domain of the Internet of Things. She is mostly interested in self-awareness and resilience, user friendliness and user adoption, self-organisation, and machine learning for IoT applications. All considered scenarios and applications serve the Sustainable Development Goals and contribute to a more sustainable and peaceful future.

Affiliation: University of Bremen
Homepage: comnets.uni-bremen.de