48^th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society
IECON 2022 Conference

WORKSHOP ON INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS

The Workshop: October 17, 2022

Workshop Chair :

Zhibo Pang (ABB, Sweden)

Rick Candell (NIST, USA)

Kang Lee (NIST, USA)

Kim Fung Tsang (CityU, HK)

Sponsored by :

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Standards Committee

Technical Co-sponsors:

National Institute of Standards and

Technology (NIST)

Instrumentation & Measurement Society Technical Committee on Sensor Technology (TC-9)

IES Technical Committee on Cloud & Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications

IES Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics

IES Technical Committee on Building Automation, Control & Management

Purpose

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for representatives from industry, academia, and government to work closely together to update to this research community on the latest progresses, emerging use cases, future roadmaps, open challenges, and promising research directions. The output of this workshop will, on one hand, help technology vendors to develop better wireless technologies that meet the industrial specific needs, and on the other hand, it will help system integrators and users to determine which wireless technology is suitable for which use cases with which level of performances, and how to deploy, integrate, and engineer the wireless systems properly in challenging industrial environments with e.g., many potential physical obstructions and sources of interferences.

Registration :

• Workshop Only (1 day registration): €200.00
• Full IECON Conference (includes Workshop): Full Conference Fee

Download the program for the Workshop

Potential topics Include

Wireless technologies e.g., 5G/6G, WiFi6/7, Wireless TSN, satellite, LPWAN (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT), UWB, etc. for Industrial IoT
Emerging techniques to achieve high-reliability, low-latency, secure, and safe wireless systems

Wireless use cases and requirements for industrial applications such as robotics, mobile platforms, process automation, UAV, motion control, healthcare, smart buildings, product safety, etc.

Security, blockchain technologies and networks for industrial IoT applications

Source of interference and coexistence of wireless technologies

Approaches for spectrum monitoring and interference management in Industrial IoT

Wireless-aware Industrial IoT applications such as industrial AI, monitoring and maintenance, closed-loop control, functional safety

- Systems engineering approach and processes for applying wireless technologies
Convergence of wireless and wired protocols and networks in Industrial IoT
Convergence of wireless communication with edge computing in Industrial IoT
Convergence of wireless communication with artificial intelligence in Industrial IoT
Needs for standardization of protocols, practices and guidelines

Background

Manufacturers applying wireless technologies in new or existing automation systems for sensing, monitoring, and controlling equipment and processes can reap benefits by eliminating costly cabling and enabling mobility and deployment flexibility. Meanwhile, using wireless technologies can improve factory-floor operating conditions, performances, and efficiency. It is envisioned that the industrial wireless infrastructure will become a common infrastructure for communication, computing, and even sensing. The industrial use cases are also among the drivers of the evolution of cellular, Wi-Fi, and even satellite networks. In the recent years, technology vendors are achieving significant progresses while the expectations from system integrators and users are increasing even more rapidly, which means many challenges are being solved while many new ones are being brought up.

Who Should Attend/Stakeholders

Industrial wireless technology developers, system integrators, device manufacturers, end-users, standardization initiatives, and researchers are invited to speak and participate in this workshop/panel discussion for establishing guideline and research direction.

Benefits

The results of the workshop will help develop guideline, standard, and future research direction, which will help manufacturers, users, and their technology suppliers to design, assess, select, and deploy wireless platforms that perform dependably in their industrial settings and conditions.

October 17, 2022 - Workshop Agenda

8:30 am - 11:00 am Registration

10:30 am - 10:50 am Coffee Break

12noon – 1pm Lunch

3:00pm-3:20pm Coffee Break

Fees

• Workshop-ONLY: €200.00. All registered for the workshop only will be provided
with coffee breaks, lunch, and WiFi access.

• Full Conference (Workshop included): Full Conference Fee.

*Full Speaker abstracts and biographies starting page 5.

Organizers/Chairs

Zhibo Pang, pang.zhibo@se.abb.com / zhibo@kth.se;

Rick Candell, rick.candell@nist.gov ;

Kang Lee, kang.lee@ieee.org;

Kim Fung Tsang, ee330015@cityu.edu.hk ;

Steering Committee

Allen Chen, c.j.chen@ieee.org ;

Zhibo Pang, pang.zhibo@se.abb.com / zhibo@kth.se;

Kim Fung Tsang, ee330015@cityu.edu.hk ;

Victor Huang, v.huang@ieee.org ;

Chairs of the Sponsoring IES TCs

Main Sponsor:

Allen Chen, Chair, TC Standards

Technical Co-sponsors:

Len Shu, Chair, TC Cloud & Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications

Yang Shi, Chair, TC Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Wenbin Dai, Chair, TC Industrial Informatics

Kim Fung Tsang, Chair, TC Building Automation, Control, and Management

List of talks, Abstracts, Biographies and photos of the Speakers

KEYNOTE: “Safety and Security in Industrial Automation: The Need for a Holistic View”

– Prof. Thilo Sauter, TU Wien and University of Continuing Education Krems, Austria

Dr. Thilo Sauter (M’93–SM’09–F’14) received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. Until 2003, he led the Factory Communication Group at the Institute of Computer Technology. From 2004 to 2013, he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Integrated Sensor Systems at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2013, he has been with the Department of Integrated Sensor Systems at the Danube University Krems, Austria, and a tenured Associate Professor for automation technology at TU Wien since 2014. His expertise and research interests include embedded systems and integrated circuit design, smart sensors, and automation and sensor networks with a focus on real-time, security, interconnection, and integration issues relevant to cyberphysical systems and the Internet of Things in various application domains such as industrial and building automation, smart manufacturing, or smart grids. Dr. Sauter is the Vice President of the Austrian Association for Instrumentation, Automation, and Robotics, member of the Board of the Austrian Electrotechnical Association, Senior AdCom Member of the IES, and Treasurer of the IEEE Austria Section. He is currently Vice-President for Publications of the IES and past Editor-in-Chief of Industrial Electronics Magazine. He has been involved in the standardization of industrial communication systems for more than 25 years.

KEYNOTE: “TBD” – Dr. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute

Dr. Chih-Lin I – Bio Pending

“Deterministic Industrial Networks and Communications Enabling Edge Control ” – Dr. David Zhe Lou, Huawei Technologies

Dr. David Lou graduated as Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at Ghent University in 2005. In the same year he joined the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs as an Innovation Researcher. He had a leading involvement and management role in several European and national research projects (Giant, Smart Touch, Metaverse1, Mistra, Shift-TV, etc.), and standardization bodies (MPEG). In 2016 he joined Huawei Technologies as a Chief Researcher based in Munich, Germany. He is responsible for defining the research strategy, steering disruptive network innovation and coordinating collaboration with industrial and academic partners. He is also leading the standardization activities in various SDOs (e.g. ITU-T, IETF, ETSI, etc.) His interests mainly covers IoT/IIoT/I4.0, next generation industrial networking architecture, deterministic communication, network security and privacy, video streaming and transportation, and immersive communication. He is the co-chair of the IIC Networking Task Group & Edge Computing Task Group and has been actively involved in relevant industrial development activities.

“Latest progress in WiFi6 and WiFi7 towards Wireless Time Sensitive Networking” – Dr. Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Intel Research, Germany

Dr. Suresh Kalyanasundaram – Bio Pending.

“On a journey towards a flexible WiFi TSN Chip” – Dr. Ingrid Moerman, IMEC and UGhent, Belgium

Dr. Ingrid Moerman has received her degree in Electrical Engineering (1987) and the Ph.D. degree (1992) from the Ghent University, where she became a part-time professor in 2000. She is a staff member at IDLab, a core research group of imec with research activities embedded in Ghent University and University of Antwerp. Ingrid Moerman is coordinating the research activities on intelligent wireless networks at Ghent University, where she is leading a team of about 35 researchers. Ingrid Moerman is also Program Manager of the 'Deterministic Networking' track, part of the CONNECTIVITY program at imec, and in this role she coordinates research activities on end-to-end wired/wireless networking solutions driven by professional and mission-critical applications that have to meet strict Quality of Service requirements in terms of throughput, bounded latency, reliability, availability, etc. in smart application areas like industrial automation, vehicular networks, safety-critical operations, professional entertainment, etc. Ingrid Moerman has a longstanding experience in running and coordinating national and EU research funded projects. At the national level, she is particularly active in demand-driven research with small, medium and large Flemish enterprises. At the European level, she has coordinated multiple FP7/H2020 projects and is currently involved in several H2020 and Horizon Europe projects related to 5G/6G (5G-MOBIX, 5G-CARMEN, 5G-Blueprint, DEDICAT-6G, HEXA-X-II, TrialsNet). Ingrid Moerman is further highly active in several European discussion groups that drive the 6G roadmap.

“Latency Measurement and Analysis of wireless networks in time sensitive applications” – Dr. Zhibo Pang, ABB Corporate Research Sweden/ Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Dr. Zhibo Pang, PhD & MBA, is currently a Senior Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Co-Chair of the Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics. He is Associate Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE JBHI, and IEEE JESTIE. He was General Chair of IEEE ES2017 and General Co-Chair of IEEE WFCS2021 and Invited Speaker at the Gordon Research Conference AHI2018. He was awarded the “Inventor of the Year Award” by ABB Corporate Research Sweden, three times in 2016, 2018, and 2021 respectively. He works on enabling technologies in communication, computing, and intelligence for Industry4.0 and Healthcare4.0.

“What If We Design a Next G” – Dr. Hans-Peter Bernhard, Silicon Austria Labs

Dr. Hans-Peter Bernhard is Principal Scientist, Head of Research Unit Wireless Communications and 6G Research at Silicon Austria Labs and Senior Scientist at the Institute of Communications and RF Systems at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Hans-Peter Bernhard holds a Master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1991 and a PhD in Technical Sciences from the Technical University Vienna in 1997. He was Assistant Professor at TU-Vienna until 1998 and joined the JKU as Lecturer in 1999. From 1992 to 2018, he owned and operated a health IT company focused on people with physical and mental disabilities. In 2014 Hans-Peter Bernhard joined Johannes Kepler University Linz as a Senior Scientist and Silicon Austria Labs in 2018. He was Guest Researcher at the Prague Academy of Science and at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the design and analysis of time-sensitive communication systems with a focus on dependable solutions. He has given several invited talks on various aspects of the wireless factory and sensor communications. He has organized/co-organized several special sessions at ETFA2019, WFCS2020, NOMS2020, IEEE-IM 2021, WF-IoT 2021, and served as conference General Chair for WFCS2021, and Organizing Chair for EWSN2022. He is an active member of the IEEE P1451 standard technical committee, IES TC-II, IES TC-FA, IEEE Senior Member and guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Access.

“Time-Sensitive Networking in Industrial Wireless Applications” – Dr. Richard Candell, NIST

Dr. Richard Candell has over twenty years of experience in wireless systems engineering with extensive experience in the design and evaluation of wireless communications systems.  Dr. Candell spent twelve years developing, testing, and deploying secure wireless technologies for commercial and defense applications. He served as the lead systems engineer in developing spread spectrum interference cancellation and performance evaluation strategies for satellite ground stations and mobile phased array beam steering transceivers. He holds patents in successive interference cancellation and transmission burst detection applied to spread-spectrum satellite communications signals. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France. He also holds a BS and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Memphis. Dr. Candell joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US in 2014 where he leads the Industrial Wireless Systems research laboratory. He is a member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and the Robotics and Automation Society. His current research interests include the performance of mobile robotic, manufacturing, and safety applications when deployed with wireless networks as the primary mode of communications. Dr. Candell was the primary contributing author of the Guide to Industrial Wireless Systems Deployments (NIST AMS 300-4) and he serves as the Chair of the IEEE P1451.5p Wireless Performance Assessment and Measurement Working Group and the NIST Industrial Wireless System technical interest group.

Primary Sponsor