IIT RTC Lab Student Presentations
Free Registration – Thursday, November 29, 2018
You are invited to join us for presentations, demonstrations and poster sessions about the Real-Time Communications projects created by IIT students this semester.
When and Where
The event takes place on Thursday, November 29, 2018. It will be held on the IIT Main Campus, in Perlstein Hall, Room 108. The address is 10 West 33rd Street, Chicago, IL 60616, and the building is easily accessible from State and 33rd Streets. You can locate Perlstein Hall from this campus map, IIT Main Campus Map. Directions to the IIT Main Campus can be found at Directions to IIT Main Campus. Here is a link to a map of Visitor Parking.
Register
Registration is free and open to the public. Your registration ensures that we will have enough food and beverages!
Schedule of Events
There will be a poster session from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM. Students will be at their posters to discuss their work with you. Snacks and soft drinks will be served. The student presentations will take place from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Your presence supports the students, who benefit from your questions and comments. We greatly appreciate your support and are sure that you will come away with new information, ideas and contacts.
Summary Schedule
- 6:00 - 6:30 PM - Snacks and soft drinks: Students will discuss posters that describe key aspects of their work.
- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM - Student presentations and demonstrations.
Presentations Include
Real-Time Communications Lab Projects and Activities: Director Carol Davids will provide a brief overview of the projects active in the lab this semester. These include the following.
Demonstrations, Presentations, and Discussion Topics
- Interconnected VoIP Services: Students built small VoIP services using different Proxy Servers and Back-to-Back User Agents. They will show how calls flow between their systems, to our emergency services backbone network (ESInet), and to the PSTN. They will also demonstrate an application that masks emergency calls from evil-doers. Thanks to our industry partners, SignalWire, Telnyx, and NexVortex, for their support of these projects.
BlueTooth and Sensor Array (BOSSA) Platform Developments: An array of BlueTooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons whose locations are recorded in a cloud-based database is used to identify the indoor location of emergency callers as well as to supply temperature, humidity, air pressure, and other environmental data. Students will describe applications, operations, and experiments related to this platform and what it can do to support Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, and Emergency Services. Project include: - BLE Beacon development: RUUVI Beacons provide more functions and programmability than the AXA beacons we told you about in previous semesters. The RUUVIs can advertise not only their IDs but also the readings obtained from their onboard temperature, humidity, air pressure, and acceleration sensors.
- BlueTooth Gateway development: Gateways provide administrative support for the array and transmit temperature, humidity, air pressure, and acceleration at administratively controlled intervals. We'll discuss their design and operation. We experimented with using Raspberry Pis instead of our RedBear chips and will report progress.
- New installations: This semester, students installed beacons in a building with large open spaces. They will describe the process and the results of experiments to determine the accuracy of our indoor location algorithm in this new environment.
- Experimentation: We did a series of experiments designed to identify how the Received Signal Strength (RSSI) varies with distance, temperature, and various environments and obstacles: walls, doors, indoors, outdoors, and more. Interested in learning how long our beacons would continue to broadcast in a burning building, we exposed one to flames and recorded its behavior. The experimentation team will report many interesting results!
This event is free and open to the public. You will learn new things, make new contacts and you will meet the students who may be your future colleagues and/or employees.