Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala in association with IEEE Communications Society Kerala Chapter and ACM Trivandrum Professional Chapter organized a talk on 10/02/2018 on the topic “Interoperability, Security, and Reliability for a scalable Internet of Things” by renowned speaker Prof.Dr.-Ing Axel Sikora from Institute of Reliable Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics (ivESK), Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. The session embarked on the existing state of the art in the most promising and rapidly evolving application fields of the Internet of Things.  It also laid focus on the potential challenges related to the field.

 

About the Speaker

Dr. Axel Sikora is a distinguished personality with rich industrial and academic experience. His fruitful career encompasses prominent positions in telecommunication and semiconductor industries, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach and Offenburg University of Applied Sciences. Since 2016, he is also deputy member of the board and head of the “Software Solutions” division at Hahn-Schickard Association of Applied Research (Germany), one of the leading institutes around Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) for Industry 4.0 applications in Germany. In 2002, he founded the Steinbeis Transfer Center Embedded Design and Networking, which was successfully spun off as STACKFORCE GmbH in 2014.

The talk was acknowledged positively by attendees comprising of industrialists, practitioners and research scholars who were passionate about the uprising technology.