Embedded projects & demo presentations !

This time the Embedded Systems Belgium Meet-up will be hosted by Rombit, who kindly provide the location, sandwhiches, wraps, drinks and a speaker with an exciting topic.

Some information about Rombit :

Rombit has grown from Flanders’ Most Promising Startup (VOKA, Trends, JCI) into an experienced IoT service provider, covering smart city and smart industry markets with in-house solutions that closely integrate with the existing customer infrastructure. It builds solutions on top of its Romcore framework that integrates the full chain from IoT hardware to IoT networks, big data processing, analysis, and visualisations.
Today, Rombit enables companies and governments to cut administrative workflows and to create rapid insights into company processes. Rombit has an in-house R&D facility where new IoT-applications are developed, mainly for harbor applications such as smart dredge hoses, collision detection systems and drone monitoring.
The Rombit methodology and knack for solving difficult problems have made the company popular within the large industry ecosystem in Flanders and abroad: Rombit has grown to nearly 50 employees in almost 5 years.

The overall agenda will be three presenters will also share their embedded projects.

Doors open at 18.30h and we start the presentations at 19.00h .

Like always we close with a networking event.

The first presentation will be about : Energy harvesting

Energy harvesting technologies allow low power embedded systems to draw the energy required for their own operation from their surrounding environment. Ambient light, vibrations, temperature gradients, fluid streams and many other energy sources can be tapped into to power embedded systems, using energy harvesters to convert ambient energy into electrical energy, and matching power converters to generate the required voltage rails. Solid state harvesters potentially offer a nearly unlimited life time for embedded systems, enabling the design of truly autonomous applications.

In this talk, Yannick Verbelen from the Faculty of Engineering of Brussels University (VUB) will present the state-of-the-art in energy harvesting technology with a focus on commercially available solutions that can readily integrated in existing applications. Several economically feasible trade-offs for technological limitations are discussed, and applied on real world embedded problems."

The second speaker will be Anthony Liekens, R&D Director at Rombit, who will present some embedded projects under development at Rombit. For example, he'll show A*Sign, smart mobile parking signage that is being implemented by the city of Antwerp. Anthony will also discuss “communication fusion”, a recurring trend where communication networks have to be combined to solve Internet of Things challenges.

Third speaker ..... description to follow soon.