WACREN - ICTP IoT Workshop

13 Mar 2023, 09:00 → 16 Mar 2023, 18:00 Africa/Accra

Information Access Centre [Seminar Room] (IAC, University of Ghana)

Omo Oaiya (WACREN), Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))

This hands-on workshop is a side event of the WACREN 2023 Conference and part of a developing program to boost the deployment of sensor networks and LoraWAN gateways in WACREN NRENs for climate and weather research services.

Target Participants: Researchers, Wireless Network Administrators, Meteorology Agency Officers

Language:  English   
Logistics:

• Full sponsorship (travel and welfare) for the first participant from WACREN members in good standing, and welfare only for an additional participant.
• Welfare only for participants from other WACREN Members.
• Allowances for dinners and expenses for GARNET participants.
• Lunches and coffee breaks will be provided during the workshop
   

Applications from ASREN and Ubuntunet Alliance welcome and encouraged.

 

Monday, 13 March

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome and Introductions

Speaker: Omo Oaiya (WACREN)

09:30 → 10:15 Introduction to Internet of Things

Speaker: Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))

10:15 → 11:00 Introduction to LoRaWAN

Speaker: Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break + Group Photo

11:30 → 12:30 Lab 1: Installing the Barani Weather Station

Speakers: Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)), Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

12:30 → 13:30 Lab 2: Installing the Barani Rain Sensor

Speakers: Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)), Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Lab 3: Installing the Barani Wind Sensor

Speakers: Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)), Dr Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

15:30 → 16:30 Lab 4: Installing the Milesight Gateway

Speakers: Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)), Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

Tuesday, 14 March

09:00 → 12:00 Deployment

Deployment of weather stations and gateways in pilot locations in Accra

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 16:30 Deployment

Deployment of weather stations and gateways in pilot locations in Accra

Wednesday, 15 March

09:00 → 10:30 Lab: Installing the MQTT, Visualization server

Speakers: Clement Onime (ICTP), Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:00 Lab: Installing the MQTT, Visualization server

Speakers: Clement Onime (ICTP), Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Lab: How to analyze the data

Speakers: Clement Onime (ICTP), Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Lab: Maintenance of the system

Speaker: Rytis Paskauskas (ICTP)

Thursday, 16 March

09:00 → 09:45 Data Analytics

Speaker: Clement Onime (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))

09:45 → 10:30 TinyML

Speaker: Marco Zennaro (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))