IEEE UAE Section

The biennial international Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE) is designed to be a forum of excellence where a selected group of researchers, practitioners, and students will present and discuss their latest findings and results. This year’s event is jointly organized with GIS and Remote Sensing Annual Scientific Forum (GRASF 2017).  This event is committed to introduce innovative methodologies and technological resources recently employed to investigate the manifold aspects of the urban environment through orbital and airborne remote sensing data. Emerging topics like new methods for urban land cover and land use classification with detailed discrimination of urban targets, 3D modeling of urban buildings, forecast and impact assessment of natural and man-made hazards in urban areas, urban social studies, urban ecology as well as data fusion, algorithms and techniques for remotely sensed data interpretation, and multisource remote sensing data will be approached, aiming to address pressing questions and offer effective solutions in urban remote sensing but also to unravel new possibilities for the interpretation, processing, fusion, and application of remotely sensed data in urban investigations. Agenda: Full Program is available. Location: Ritz-Carlton, Dubai Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: University of Dubai Abstract: We present our ongoing research agenda on Internet of Things (IoT) in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Three initiatives define this agenda: integration of IoT into business process management, agentification of things, and mutation of things. IoT is among the latest ICT developments that is making the boundaries between reality and fiction vanish. According to Mark Weiser, “…The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it’’[1]. And according to Gartner[2], 6.4 billion connected things were in use in 2016, up 3% from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. In the first initiative, we adopt storytelling principles to design and develop Process of Things (PoT). In the second initiative, we shed the light on some obstacles that are slowing down IoT expansion and adoption, for instance diversity of things’ development technologies and communication standards, users’ reluctance and sometimes rejection due to privacy invasion, lack of killer applications that would demonstrate their necessity, lack of an IoT-oriented software engineering discipline, and finally, the passive nature of things. Finally, the third initiative examines thing mutation in the sense that things bind and/or unbind capabilities on the fly (and as they see fit). Speaker(s): Prof. Zakaria Maamar, Location: Room: 103 Bldg: Engineering Dubai Academic City dubai, United Arab Emirates 14143

Co-sponsored by: University of Dubai This talk will focus on an IoT Systems-on-Chip (SoCs)  presented as an example of IoT work in the UAE and as part of the UAE SRC (Semiconductor Research Corp) Center of Excellence on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (aka ACE4S  http://www.src.org/program/grc/ace4s/) involving researchers from 5 UAE Universities looking at developing new technologies aiming at innovative self-powered wireless sensing and monitoring SoC platforms. The research targets applications in self-powered chip sets for use in public health, ambient intelligence, safety and security and IoT. ACE4S is the first SRC center of excellence outside the US. One such application, which we will discuss in details, is a ground breaking self-powered IoT SoC platform for wearable health care. More specifically we will present a novel fully integrated ECG signal processing system for the prediction of ventricular arrhythmia using a unique set of ECG features extracted from two consecutive cardiac cycles. Two databases of the heart signal recordings from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the MIT PhysioNet were used as training, test and validation sets to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The system achieved an accuracy of 99%.The ECG signal is sensed using a flexible, dry, Graphene-based technology and the system is powered up by harvesting human thermal energy. The system architecture is implemented in Global foundries’ 65 nm CMOS process, occupies 0.112 mm2 and consumes 2.78 micro Watt at an operating frequency of10 KHz and from a supply voltage of 1.2V. To our knowledge, this is the first SoC implementation of an ECG-based processor that is capable of predicting ventricular arrhythmia hours before the onset and with an accuracy of 99%. Speaker(s): Prof. Mohammed Ismail, Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Inviting IEEE PA speaker to AUS Joint IEEE conference with Oman Section TISP Budget Location: On line, United Arab Emirates

Co-sponsored by: University of Dubai The integration of physical systems with networked sensing, computation networks, and embedded control with actuation has led to the emergence of a new generation of engineered systems, the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Such systems emphasize the link between cyber space and physical environment (i.e., time, space, and energy). CPS represents the next generation of complex engineering systems. They are large scale dynamic systems that offer significant processing power while interacting across communication networks. Smart and flexible technologies are required to interface both worlds. One of the main technologies is RFID. RFID is the gate to go from the physical environment to the cyber one. CPS will help to solve the grand challenges of our society, such as, aging population, limited resources, sustainability, environment, mobility, security, health care, etc. Applications of CPS cover a wide band of economic, medical, and entertainment sectors. It includes; Transportation: automobiles, avionics, unmanned vehicles and smart roads; Large Scale Critical Infrastructure: bridges, mega buildings, power grid, defense systems; Health Care: medical devices, health management networks, telemedicine; Consumer Electronics: video games, audio/video processing, and mobile communication. Building Cyber-Physical Systems is not a trivial task. The difficulty arises from the existing gap in modeling and computing of the physical and cyber environments. The design process requires new theories, models, and algorithms that unify both environments in one framework. None of the current state-of-the art methods are able to overcome the challenges of developing the unified CPS design paradigm. Several of these issues, including RFID design requirements, will be discussed in this talk. Case studies of real world CPSs will be illustrated. Speaker(s): Prof. Magdy Bayoumi, Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

 Event held on 4/10/2017 from 1:00pm-4:00pm  Conducted by Suhaib Ahmed and Arnold Dev (Second year students) of the IEEE         AMYTECH committee, Amity University Dubai.   This event was open to all courses and the eligibility was that the team members needed to know basic C programming. Teams of two were made. Each team was given a programming code which had errors. The errors were to be corrected, and then typed while the monitor is off. Which was then compiled and run by the organizers. If errors were removed the team would be qualified for the next round- QUIZ. The goal of this event was to create interest, inspire, and spread knowledge among the students of different courses. This event gave them a platform to show off their basic C programming skills and their ‘debugging the code’ skills. The IEEE event– CAN YOU C ME?  was successful and has given us a big platform to put up more workshops and events in the future. Mr. Ved Prakash Mishra( Branch Councelor at IEEE Student branch at Amity University Dubai), Dr. Maninder Kaur (IEEE Member) and Dr. Piyush Maheshwari (Sr. IEEE Member ) were also present and motivated the students.   Location: dubai, United Arab Emirates

Introduction on VoIP architecture and how it shows the alternative way of communicating over long distances via IP or computer networks Location: Al Jazirah Institute of Science and Technology AbuDhabi, United Arab Emirates

Proposal for hosting MESYP Sponsoring YP to attend MESYP in Tunisia [update] Preparation for the 2018 MGA Outstanding Section Award IEEE Technical Sponsorship for ICREGA’18 conference Community service initiative Middle East Electricity Partnership [update] Review of progress: officer reports and activities reports MoU with DESC Establishing IAS chapter [update] Updates on TISP Selecting a student representative MoU with University of Dubai   Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

We would like to invite you and your students to participate in the 12th International Microelectronics Olympiad of Armenia. Only active university students under the age of 30, who have microelectronics related specializations, are eligible to participate in the Olympiad. The Olympiad topics are:          Digital IC Design and Testing          Analog and Mixed Signal IC Design and Testing          Semiconductor Devices and Technology          Mathematical and Algorithmic Issues of EDA. The Olympiad is held in two stages. In the first stage, students are given tests with multiple choice questions and the highest scoring students are shortlisted for the second stage, where they are required to solve more complex problems. Travel and accommodation expenses of participants in the final stage will be covered. In UAE, the first stage will be held at the American University of Sharjah, Engineering Building 1. The highest scoring student will be shortlisted for the final stage, to be held in Armenia among the top contestants of all participant countries in October 2017 in Armenia. For more information about this Olympiad, please visit the Olympiad’s website which also has past tests and problems along with their solutions: http://www.microelectronicsolympiad.am/en/ Location: Bldg: Engineering Building 1 American University of Sharjah sharjah, United Arab Emirates

[Updates] The IEEE workshop on Solar Energy Sponsoring 10 students to attend IEEE GCC SYP 2017 Sponsoring AUS student trip Allocation of funds for students activities Sponsoring IEEE Seminars on Future Technologies Hosting IEEE R8 OpCom in Nov Anonymous review of IEEE student day Approval of ICECTA 2017 Travel Fund to attend women in Engineering International Leadership conference   Location: Ras Al Khaima, United Arab Emirates