David Murray, Author at SENSIBLE Project

Project Presentation at ELO SYS 2017

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:10:49 +0000

Juraj Machaj presented the project work at International Trade Fair for Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Electronics, Lighting and Telecommunications – ELO SYS 2017, held in Nitra, Slovakia, on May 23-26, 2017. The presentation was focused on positioning technologies for services in smart cities and smart buildings. The event was attended by companies and general public interested in field of electrical engineering and telecommunications. The audience was mixed from business, universities and public with different background from engineers to marketing specialists.
ELO Sys 2017 Website

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Communication of SENSIBLE to RAMBOLL worldwide staff

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:10:21 +0000

On May 19, 2017, Dr Lina Stankovic from the University of Strathclyde, presented a keynote on the concept of Smart and Liveable buildings and how the SENSIBLE consortium is tackling the challenges associated with intelligent buildings at the 2017 Liveable Buildings 2.0 Conference in RAMBOLL Head Office in Copenhagen, organised every two years by RAMBOLL’s Sustainability Network for RAMBOLL staff and clients. The audience, comprising 80 RAMBOLL staff from branches across the world and 11 clients had a mixed background from sustainable engineers and architects to marketing specialists and project managers. This 2-day conference demonstrated RAMBOLL’s endeavours towards building smart, resilient and liveable buildings and the various projects staff are working on.

During the conference, a visit to RAMBOLL’s Head Office Building and Virtual Solution Lab was organized, where the sustainable features of the building were explored, demonstrating how RAMBOLL is embracing virtual reality and interactive screens for improving visualization of various data. At the end of the conference, Lina Stankovic was part of the expert panel taking questions on the sensing and analysis of data from Smart Buildings, including privacy concerns. While RAMBOLL-UK (led by Graeme McCutcheon at the Glasgow office) is a beneficiary in SENSIBLE, this conference was an opportunity to highlight the research efforts of SENSIBLE to a global RAMBOLL audience and its clients. Graeme McCutcheon was one of the conference organisers, is part of RAMBOLL’s Sustainability Network and also presented on marketing the Liveable Building Concept during the conference.

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Experience of PhD researcher on his SENSIBLE secondment

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:10:06 +0000

Having the opportunity to visit and work alongside experienced professionals in Scheidt and Bachmann Slovakia (SBS) for a period of one month benefited me greatly, both from a professional perspective as well as personally. I quickly discovered that SBS are at the forefront of the development of turn-key solutions for the automotive industry. From petrol stations to signalling and parking systems, SBS have found technical solutions to address complex everyday needs. SBS have a huge global presence, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that they provide the local suburban train ticketing systems in my hometown of Glasgow! During my secondment, I was able to work on a project broadening my research skills; I gained new skills working with code and electronics for readout purposes from the type of pressure/temperature sensors I have been developing as part of my PhD research. Interaction with SBS engineers also opened my eyes to the business perspective, an aspect of research I have not thought much about. On a personal level, having the opportunity to visit Zilina in Slovakia gave me a rare opportunity to meet new people and discover a new culture and way of life. Such opportunities rarely come around, and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience.

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Talk at EU NILM Workshop 2017

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:08:04 +0000

Lina Stankovic presented SENSIBLE aims and the latest results pertaining to Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) at the NILM EU 2017 Workshop on 6-7 November 2017 in London. The collaborative work of ESR Srdjan Lulic on Deep Learning based NILM with the Strathclyde researchers during his secondment was presented, as well as results from ESR Bochao Zhao’s secondment to Tongji University in Shanghai on Graph Signal Processing based NILM. ESR Kanghang He also presented his research findings on NILM accuracy estimation. The workshop was attended by a growing European NILM community of academics, research intensive SMEs and energy industry, and provided the opportunity to network with like-minded researchers and industrial stakeholders with connections made for future collaboration.
Talks (External Site)

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Seminar on Deep Learning AI

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:07:26 +0000

On November 3rd, 2017, Srdjan Lucic, from PANONIT, gave a seminar to the Advanced Image & Video Processing class and other academics and researchers at Strathclyde. Srdjan first gave a brief tutorial on deep learning and its application to Computer Vision. Then, he spoke about the work he conducted at Strathclyde as part of SENSIBLE, including novel energy disaggregation methods using convolutional neural networks (CNN). Srdjan presented the results obtained with the proposed CNN-based method that are comparable with the state of the art for the energy dissagregation application, that use more complex deep learning architectures. After the presentation, Srdjan answered numerous questions from staff and students.

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Invited Seminar at 26th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2017

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:07:10 +0000

On 25th September, 2017, Dr Dejan Vukobratovic, Associate Professor at University of Novi Sad, gave a seminar at 26th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2017, organized by IEEE Slovenia Section and Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana. The talk presented SENSIBLE project and FTN’s contribution on Machine-type Communications (MTC) and Mobile Edge Read more about Invited Seminar at 26th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2017[…]

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Internet of Things in 5G: From massive machine-type communications to large-scale information processing

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:06:43 +0000

On 8th August, 2017, Dr Dejan Vukobratovic, Associate Professor at University of Novi Sad, gave a talk entitled “Internet of Things in 5G: From massive machine-type communications to large-scale information processing” at University of Strathclyde. In the talk, Dejan discussed evolution of Machine-type Communications (MTC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) technologies for future Internet of Read more about Internet of Things in 5G: From massive machine-type communications to large-scale information processing[…]

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Distributed optimization methods with variable number of working nodes

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:06:25 +0000

On August 2nd, 2017, Dr Dusan Jakovetic, Assistant Professor from Dept Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad, gave a seminar entitled “Distributed optimization methods with variable number of working nodes” at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The seminar was attended by university’s staff and students from three different departments – Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Systems, and Mathematics, as well as SENSIBLE visiting researchers. Dusan presented his latest work on distributed optimization problems that often arise in various applications, including inference tasks in sensor networks and smart grid, coordination and control of multi-robot networks, as well as machine learning in distributed environments.

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Seminar during secondment at Tongji University

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:06:09 +0000

During their secondment at Tongji University in July 2017, Shanghai, Drs Lina and Vladimir Stankovic with their PhD students Bochao Zhao and Minxiang Ye gave a range of seminars on the topics of Internet of Things (IoT) for smart buildings, specifically focusing on energy efficiency sensing and load disaggregation algorithms as well as health and motion assessment. Our host, Dr Samuel Cheng and his PhD students also gave seminars on Deep Learning Networks and Hypergraphs.
During their time at the lab, the seconded researchers jointly set up, trained and demonstrated the use of aerial drones for mapping terrain, EV3 swarm robots and the NAO interactive humanoid robot that can learn human motion and respond to simple commands. All these devices are equipped with a multitude of sensors, motors and communications capapbility.

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Seminar at the Institute of Aurel Stodola, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia

David Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:05:52 +0000

On July 11th 2017, Dr Helena Gleskova and Prof Ivan Glesk presented the work of their groups on the development of low-voltage organic transistors for wearable electronics and the application of the transistors to temperature and pressure sensors based on ferro/pyroelectric polymer P(VDF-TrFE). Both presentations were part of a half-day seminar organized by Prof. Mullerova Read more about Seminar at the Institute of Aurel Stodola, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia[…]

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