AfricaConnect Meeting and Workshop on IoT-Based Acquisition of Research Data for Scientific Computing

Administration

Description

The workshop component of this activity is designed to introduce IT staff, engineers and scientists from Research and Education Networks (RENs) in the African region to operating a network-wide service for the scientific application of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and technology. The workshop includes hands-on sessions focused on how-to build, run and maintain various parts of the service pipeline from deployment of IoT sensors and gateways to data analysis. Programme of the workshop is online.

The high-level meeting component aims to discuss and explore broader Euro-African participation in the AfricaConnect4 (AC4) initiative, focusing on developing and enhancing regional infrastructure for data acquisition and scientific computing. This half-day meeting will focus on exploring and developing opportunities in AC4 alongside relevant European/international stakeholders as part of the planning and implementation of the AC4 project.

Topics:

Introduction to IoT: Choosing sensors, deploying sensors and gateways. Powering IoT devices (battery and solar powered solutions)
Introduction to IoT communications network: LoRAWAN gateway deployment (including redundant internet-link+power)
Introduction to the MQTT protocol and setup of an Open-source/Community edition of an IoT platform for automatic archival of collected data
Basic Data Science for IoT service pipeline: Working with CSV formatted data; removal of duplication; changing data resolution/scale); visualisation and graphing; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning models; publishing and sharing data
Addressing security related challenges (IoT sensors. gateways and data access)
High Level Meeting: AfricaConnect 4 and African-wide regional infrastructure for data acqusition, scientific research and High Performance Computing (HPC) centres.

Deadline for application in the Workshop expired.
Participation in the high-level meeting upon invitation only.

Material

Poster Preliminary list of participants group photo

AfricaConnect Meeting and Workshop on IoT-Based Acquisition of Research Data for Scientific Computing | (smr 4046)

Go to day

Monday, 21 October 2024

09:15 - 18:00 WORKSHOP DAY 1 [Introduction]

09:15 Welcome message ICTP 10'

Speaker: S. Scandolo (tbc) (ICTP)

09:30 Overview/participants introduction 1h15'

Speaker:	C. Onime (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

10:45 BREAK 35'

11:20 IoT sensors kit for monitoring pollution of surface water bodies 1h10'

Speaker:	E. Pietrosemoli (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

12:30 LUNCH 1h0'

13:30 Introduction to IoT 1h0'

Speaker:	M. Zennaro (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

14:30 General introduction to Arduino programming 1h30'

Speaker:	M. Baruzzo (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

16:00 BREAK 30'

16:30 3D printing for rapid prototyping in environmental monitoring 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Fonda (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

Tuesday, 22 October 2024

09:00 - 18:00 WORKSHOP DAY 2 [Sensor networks and Communications]

09:00 RECAP of Day 1 30'

09:30 Introduction to IoT communications 1h15'

Speaker:	E. Pietrosemoli (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

10:45 BREAK 30'

11:15 Introduction to MQTT protocol 1h15'

Speaker:	R. Paškauskas (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

12:30 LUNCH 1h0'

13:30 Introduction to IoT gateways 1h0'

Speaker:	R. Paškauskas (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

14:30 Hands-on: Installing an IoT platform for MQTT data collection 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Onime (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

16:00 BREAK 20'
16:30 Tour of SciFabLab 1h30'

Speaker: Carlo Fonda (ICTP)

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

09:00 - 18:00 WORKSHOP Day 3 [Data analysis]

09:00 Recap of Day 2 30'

09:30 Advance tasks and exercise on IoT platforms: high availability, data archival and extracting data from archival DB 1h15'

Speaker:	C. Onime (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

10:45 BREAK 30'

11:15 Powering IoT sensors, kits and gateways 1h15'

Speaker:	E. Pietrosemoli (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

12:30 LUNCH 1h0'

13:30 Basic Data Science: Introduction and best practices, data protection and ethical use of data 1h30'

Speaker:	S. Gizaw (Addis Ababa University)
Material:	Slides

15:00 Introduction to tinyML 1h0'

Speaker:	M. Zennaro (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

16:00 BREAK 30'
16:30 Hands-on: Working with data: cleanup, deduplication & scaling 1h30'

Speakers: Dr. Bankole Akinyele (Nnamdi Azikiwe University), Dr. Abayomi Oyewale (Obafemi Awolowo University)

Thursday, 24 October 2024

09:00 - 14:00 WORKSHOP DAY 4 [A.I for IoT]

09:00 Recap of Day 3 30'

09:30 Hands-on: Working with data: tools for graphing, A.I models 1h15'

Speaker:	C. Onime (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

10:45 BREAK 30'

11:15 Introduction to Machine Learning and neural networks 1h15'

Speaker:	C. Onime (ICTP)
Material:	Slides

12:30 LUNCH 1h30'

14:00 - 18:00 AfricaConnect4: High-level meeting on broader participation and opportunities for enhancing regional infrastructure for data acquisition and scientific computing

Location: Leonardo Building - Oppenheimer Meeting Room

Friday, 25 October 2024

09:00 - 14:30 WORKSHOP DAY 5 [Wrap-up, feedback & Closing]

09:00 Recap of day 4 30'

09:30 Forum discussion on open data: Publishing and sharing data 1h0'

Speaker:	All participants (WACREN & ICTP)
Material:	Video

10:30 Forum Discussion: Addressing IoT security multi-layers 1h0'

Speaker: All participants
11:30 Feedback session and closing remarks 1h0'

Speaker: All participants