Sensorization: Smart Cities

 SPEAKER ABSTRACTS & BIOGRAPHIES 

    Dr. Mark McCord 

    CTO   

    Cepton Technologies

Presentation Abstract: Lidar is quickly becoming a critical sensor for smart city applications due to its ability to provide accurate, real-time, 3D imagery and perception. Some of the applications that can be enabled or enhanced by lidar include road and rail intersection monitoring, traffic and pedestrian detection and analytics, wrong-way driving and speed detection, and vehicle dimension extraction and vehicle classification for smart tolling. Lidars are also increasingly used in applications such as crowd analytics and security in public and private spaces. Cepton has developed lidar sensors using a unique and patented MMT® architecture, with an attractive combination of range, resolution, size, and cost, making them ideal for a range of applications in automotive and smart infrastructure, including smart cities. Combined with Cepton’s award-winning lidar perception system, the lidar solutions are currently being deployed by several partners on various smart city-type projects. In this webinar, we’ll provide some background on why lidar is becoming popular for these applications compared to traditional sensors and illustrate with real-life examples.

Biography: Dr. Mark McCord has served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Cepton since 2016, working to develop advanced LiDAR sensors. Prior to co-founding Cepton, Dr. McCord was a System Engineering Manager at PDF Solutions, and a Director of System Engineering, Advanced Development at KLA (formerly KLA-Tencor Corporation). He has also been a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and a researcher at IBM Watson Research Center. Dr. McCord received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Fikret Sivrikaya    

Research Director    

GT-ARC / Technical University Berlin    

Presentation Abstract: There are a plethora of wireless communication technologies for interconnecting IoT devices and sensors in smart cities. With largely varying quality characteristics in terms of coverage, capacity, reliability, and cost, the choice of certain communication technology are highly dependent on the specific application requirements and the target deployment environment. This tutorial talk will start with a brief background on IoT platforms and the communication protocol stack, then provide an overview of the diverse communication technology options for IoT and smart cities. Among those, the main focus of the talk will be on "Low-Power Wide-Area Network" (LPWAN) technologies, which are particularly suited to smart city use cases. If time permits, we may also briefly cover the lightweight IoT protocols that are typically employed for data exchange over the wireless communication links.

Biography: Fikret Sivrikaya received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA in 2007 and the Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2000. Since 2008 he has been working as a senior researcher and lecturer at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is also serving as the research director at the German-Turkish Advanced Research Center for ICT (GT-ARC), a nonprofit research organization and affiliated institute of TU Berlin. Dr. Sivrikaya has over 15 years of experience in research supervision, project management, and teaching in the areas of telecommunications, IoT, wireless sensor networks, and machine learning, with an application focus on Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Cities. He has over 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications in these areas.

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