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Crucial seminar on sensor networks in May
THE INSTITUTION of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India's largest body of electronics and telecommunication engineers, through its Allahabad Centre is going to organise a two-day National seminar on "Sensor Networks and Applications". The seminar will begin at the Prof SNP Ghosh Auditorium in the University of Allahabad from May 13.
THE INSTITUTION of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India's largest body of electronics and telecommunication engineers, through its Allahabad Centre is going to organise a two-day National seminar on "Sensor Networks and Applications". The seminar will begin at the Prof SNP Ghosh Auditorium in the University of Allahabad from May 13.
Director of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (MNNIT) Prof Arun Baran Samaddar will be the chief guest on the occasion while Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh (CSIO) Dr Praveen Kapur will deliver the keynote address, informed Sanjaya Kala, Secretary, Programme Committee of the Seminar.
He further said that the seminar is being co-organized by the JK Institute of Applied Physics and Technology, University of Allahabad and the Ewing Christian Institute of Management and Technology, Ewing Christian College.
Prof RG Harshe, Vice Chancellor, University of Allahabad is likely to preside over the inaugural session, added Kala.
The seminar will have a galaxy of eminent experts from across the country who shall be delivering invited presentation and talks in addition to student paper presentations.
Sensor networks provide a new kind of instrument that enables us to observe and interact with physical phenomena in real time at a fidelity that was previously unobtainable, said Prof MM Gore of MNNIT, who is also the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Seminar.
He said the wireless sensor networks are emerging as both an important new tier in the IT ecosystem and a rich domain of active research involving hardware and system design, networking distributed algorithms, programming models, data management, security and social factors.
"Sensor networks provide a new kind of instrument that enables us to observe and interact with physical phenomena in real time at a fidelity that was previously unobtainable. Sensor networks readily extend to monitoring interactions among many objects ensuring asset management, ubiquitous computing environments and emerging response.
Wireless sensor networks combine processing, sensing and communications into tiny embedded devices which range from mm to PDA size integrated units," he said.
Prof Gore said that the devices may be placed in field for years at a time without maintenance or human intervention. "These are likely to transform whole fields of science, engineering and manufacturing by providing detailed instrumentation of many points over large spaces both natural and artificial," he added.
PN Gupta, Reader, JK Institute of Applied Physics and Technology, who is the Organizing Secretary of meet, informed that details of the event have been made available on the Institute's website—www.jkinstitute.org/iete.html.
While Prof U S Tewari of the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad is the convenor of the Seminar, Prof SG Prakash of the JK Institute of Applied Physics and Technology is the organising chairman, Gupta added.
