The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address an important social and healthcare issue: as the world's population ages, there is growing interest in solutions for the in- home care of the elderly as well as for the care of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other disabilities or traumas. PETRA (which means "stone" in Greek) reflects the needs of the domestic environment, or "Oikos" as it was known in ancient Greece, but from a technological perspective. People's living environments are particularly important in an increasingly crowded and complex world where the need for inclusiveness and connectivity with the rest of the world is key. PETRA addresses the fact that, as people grow older, they will increasingly rely on technology to be able to stay in their homes.

http://www.petrae.org/index.php

This flagship conference of IEEE Communications Society aims at addressing an essential theme on “Bridging the Broadband Divide.” The conference will feature a comprehensive technical program including several Symposia and a number of Tutorials and Workshops. IEEE ICC 2013 will also include an attractive expo program including keynote speakers, various Business, Technology and Industry fora, and vendor exhibits.

PLANNED TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA

Selected Areas in Communications Symposium

• E-Health Area
• Power Line Communications Area
• Smart Grids Area
• Tactical Communications & Operations Area
• Satellite & Space Communication Area
• Data Storage Area
• Access Systems and Networks Area
• Green Communication Systems and Networks

 

• Wireless Communications Symposium
• Wireless Networking Symposium
• Communication Theory Symposium
• Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
• Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
• Next-Generation Networking Symposium
• Communication QoS, Reliability & Modeling Symposium
• Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium
• Communication Software and Services Symposium
• Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium
• Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium

http://www.ieee-icc.org/2013/

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to share and discuss among researchers the different applications and approaches for continuous, 24x7monitoring using wireless sensor networks. We are soliciting papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical aspects of sensor networks for continuous monitoring. We particularly welcome submissions that present design, implementation and deployment results that take into account the effort to run the systems with low or minimum energy consumption. 

Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 

* Energy saving architectures 
* Green energy monitoring systems 
* Data association 
* Continuous authentication 
* Middleware and software tools 
* Networking architectures and protocols 
* Data gathering, aggregation and dissemination 
* Topology control 
* Power management and energy-efficient design 
* Time synchronization 
* Location management 
* Cross-layer architectures 
* Intelligent monitoring 
* Decision Support Systems 
* Security and dependability issues 
* Modeling and performance evaluation 
* Estimation and prediction 
* Monitoring sensor platforms 
* Social behavior analysis 
* Social signal processing 
* Action and gesture recognition 
* Mobile (smartphones, tablets, etc.) systems 
* Applications (including, but not limited to, the application areas listed above)

http://wsn.iet.unipi.it/snigm2013/index.html

Precision Agriculture is a multidisciplinary approach to modern agriculture. It is using methods and techniques from other disciplines such as geostatistics, sensors, remote sensing, automation, ICT, etc. to help farmers increase their productions and product quality and reducing at the same time the environmental impact of agriculture. It has been in constant evolution since first developing stages in the late 80s/early 90s.

The size of ECPA meetings (200-250 attendees) allows focusing on specific topics related to all PA practices while discovering what our colleagues are working on, enabling synergies and co-operation. After 18 years, the 9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture will be held in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain) under the auspices of the Universitat de Lleida and the International Society of Precision Agriculture.

http://www.ecpa2013.udl.cat/index.html

ATNAC is an international conference for the presentation of research outcomes covering timely and relevant aspects concerning optical, wired and wireless telecommunication networks and applications. Contributions are welcome on all advanced research and particularly (but not limited to) on the following topics:

• Networks and Management
• Internet Technologies
• IPv6 Mobility and Vehicular Networks
• Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks
• Network-Based Applications
• Optical Communications
• Wireless Sensor Networks

http://www.atnac.org/

Current developments show that in the near future the wide availability of low cost, short range radio technology, along with advances in wireless networking, will enable wireless adhoc sensor networks to become commonly deployed. In these networks, each node may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as acoustic, seismic, infrared, motion, biomedical and chemical sensors with higher level of information inference associated with identification, embedded signal processing and networking of the data. This conference intends to be the meeting point of researchers and practitioners share experience and ideas on innovative developments in any aspect of sensor networks, including Hardware of Sensor Networks, Wireless Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks Software and Architectures, Wireless Information Networks, Data Manipulation, Signal Processing, Localization and Object Tracking through Sensor Networks, Obstacles, Applications and Uses.

http://www.sensornets.org/Home.aspx