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DEUSTO organises the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)

DEUSTEK organized the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)

From 22 From 22 to 25 October the University of Deusto held the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019). This Conference, which builds on the success of its predecessors since 2008, is the premier forum to share, discuss and witness cutting edge research in all areas of development for the Internet of Things.

The Conference included original, high impact research papers which have been reviewed and selected based on technical novelty, the integrity of the analysis and social-environmental impacts and practical relevance, on topics related to the development and adoption of the Internet of Things. Moreover the program included three keynote speakers: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, one of the most influential people in IoT, who talked about "The Illusion of the Smart House", Andy Stanford-Clark, chief technology officer of IBM in the United Kingdom and Ireland, on "Innovation starts at home." and Benoît Piranda, from the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté University, Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS ( France).

MORElab members Diego Casado-Mansilla and Oihane Gómez-Carmona presented their work at the conference. Diego presented the paper entitled User Involvement Matters: The Side-Effects of Automated Smart Objects in Pro-environmental Behaviour authored by himself, Pablo Garainzar and Diego López-de-Ipiña.

Oihane presented the work "Simplicity is Best: Addressing the Computational Cost of Machine Learning Classifiers in Constrained Edge Devices" authored by herself, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Javier García-Zubia and Diego López-de-Ipiña. Moreover, this paper was awarded an honourable mention.

Approval of PARITY H2020 project

On Wednesday, 8^th May, DeustoTech-Societal Challenges was notified about the approval of a new H2020 project in the call “H2020-LC-SC3-2019” (Topic: ES-1 Flexibility and retail market options for the distribution grid). The project title is “PARITY: Pro-sumer AwaRe, Transactive Markets for Valorization of Distributed flexibilITY enabled by Smart Energy Contracts”.

It is a 42-month project that will increase the durability and efficiency of the electrical grid and facilitate the penetration of Renewable Energy sources (RES) beyond 50% of the generation mix in the distribution network.

PARITY will go beyond the traditional “top-down” grid management practices by delivering a unique local flexibility market platform through the seamless integration of IoT and blockchain technologies. By delivering a market for automated flexibility exchange based on smart contracts & blockchain, PARITY will facilitate efficient and transparent local flexibility transactions and reward flexibility in a cost reflective and symmetric manner, through price signals of higher spatio-temporal granularity based on real-time grid operational constraints and available Distributed Energy Resources (DER) flexibility. The PARITY solution will be demonstrated in 4 pilot sites around the EU (ES, CH, SE & ES) to validate its effectiveness across climatic, cultural and techno-regulatory conditions.

In this new project, Dr. Diego Casado Mansilla and Dr. Diego López-de-Ipiña from DeustoTech-Societal Challenges and Dr. Cruz Borges from DeustoTech-ENERGY&ENVIRONMENT took part in the proposal preparation. Our groups will cooperate for providing a thorough Analysis of obstacles to Innovation under current & future regulatory & socio-economic context for Local Flexibility Market (LFM) proliferation.

MORElab participated in the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2018)

MORElab members Oihane Gómez-Carmona, Koldo Zabaleta and Unai Zulaika Zurimendi participated in the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2018, (IWAAL & AmIHEALTH included) held in Punta Cana, República Dominicana from 4th to 7th December 2018.

The main focus of this edition of the UCAmI Conference was Ambient Intelligence (AmI) that represents a new generation of user-centered computing environments and systems to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities. Oihane presented the paper entitled "Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities". Koldo presented the paper entitled "Human Computation to Enhance E-Service Consumption among Elderlies". Lastly Unai the paper entitled "Enhancing Profile and Context Aware Relevant Food Search through Knowledge Graphs".

Additionally, Koldo participated in the Networking Session located within the Conference program, where he had the opportunity to introduce MORElab's research interests the rest of the attendances.

MORElab members Iván Pretel , Pablo Curiel and Koldo Zabaleta participated in the 8th CISTI'13 Conference

MORElab members Iván Pretel , Pablo Curiel and Koldo Zabaleta participated in the 8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI'2013) held in June 19-22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal.

Click in following links to see the presented slides:

For further information about the presented papers, please visit the 2013 publication section in this site.

Three PhD students of MORElab attended Semantic Summer School

The members of MORElab Koldo Zabaleta, Pablo Curiel and Mikel Emaldi have attended Summer School on
Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web'12 at Cercedilla, Madrid. At this Summer School, several leading researchers on Semantic Web have been teaching about Semantic Technologies, ontology engineering and Linked Data.