UW IoT Webinars

“Tutorial on Forecasting of Temporal Data”

Presenter: Shiyu Zhou, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison

In the tutorial, commonly used forecasting methods were introduced as well as the software implementation of these approaches.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“The Internet of Federated Things”

Presenter: Raed Al Kontar, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

The webinar session focused on how the Internet of Things is moving away from cloud computing to edge computing.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Online Monitoring of Heterogeneous Big Data Streams”

Presenter: Kaibo Liu, Associate Professor, UW-Madison

The webinar session focused on newly developed monitoring and sampling algorithms that can
quickly detect abnormalities occurring in large data streams.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Risk-Based, Investment Analysis for Condition Monitoring
Systems in Manufacturing” Recap

Presenter: Medhi Dadfarnia, Research Engineer –
National Institute of Standards and Technology

The webinar focused on how to analyze condition monitoring systems to ensure that companies understand their return on investment and are maximizing their competitive advantage

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

 “Enhancing Mercury Marine’s Manufacturing Operations With IIOT”
Recap

Presenter: Praveen Sreedhar, Digital Solutions Manager and Subhrajit Bhowmik, IoT Architect
–Mercury Marine Digital Services

The webinar session reviewed Mercury’s IIOT solution and how the data is collected, staged, processed, and presented to manufacturing operators for early detection of defective parts & reduce unplanned downtime.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Implementation and Validation of AI-Driven Solutions for IoT Systems:
Applications to Smart and Connected Vehicles”
Recap

Presenter: Professor Abdallah Chehade

The webinar conducted by Dr. Chehade discussed the challenges and effective implementations of AI-driven solutions for multiple use-cases of smart and connected vehicles.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Security and Privacy Challenges of User-Device Interactions in the Internet of Things”
Recap

Presenter: Professor Kassem Fawaz

In this webinar, Dr. Fawaz discussed new security and privacy challenges resulting from the ever-evolving interactions with IoT devices.

“Supply Chains, Shield Net, and the COVID-19 Pandemic”
 Recap

Presenter: Professor Justin Boutilier

In this webinar, supply chain challenges and solutions spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic were discussed.  Discussion topics covered COVID-19, health system and supply chain challenges, and UW-Madison’s Shield Net Project.

 “Bringing an IoT Solution to Market”
Recap

Presenter: David Webber, PhD, Chief Scientist & CTO – Scanalytics Inc.

In this webinar, attendees learned how Scanalytics Inc. brought their IoT solution for use in the commercial environment from a lab prototype to their customers. Starting with the basics, attendees received an overview of the tiers of an IoT sensor system, a robust data stream, and a cloud computing architecture that can scale to meet customer and business needs well into the future.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

Introduction to UW IoT Center In-House Software
“Smart Industrial Data Analyzer (SIDA)”
Recap

Presenter: Shiyu Zhou, IoT Center Director, ISyE Professor – UW-Madison

This webinar introduced the architecture and functionalities of the UW IoT Center’s in-house software, Smart Industrial Data Analyzer (SIDA), which is currently under development.  SIDA has a convenient graphics user interface and an open architecture. Third-party source codes in various languages such as R and Python can be easily integrated in the SIDA environment. Currently, two functional modules are available: (1) system degradation health index based on multiple sensor fusion, and (2) event log analyzer. SIDA will be free of charge to IoT members and further functionalities can be added according to member companies’ request.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Securing the Industrial Internet of Things – a ‘Defense in Depth Strategy’ for Manufacturers”
Recap

Presenter: Chuck Tommey, IT/OT Consultant – Siemens 

This webinar demonstrated Siemens’ “Defense-in-Depth” network security strategy by creating multiple independent security layers. The webinar also provided successful use cases of this strategy at one of their U.S. manufacturing facilities.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Industrial Internet and Case Studies in Smart Manufacturing”
Recap

The webinar “Industrial Internet and Case Studies in Smart Manufacturing” was instructed by Virginia Tech Professor Ran Jin. Dr. Jin introduced the audience to industrial internet and provided successful examples of industrial internet being used in manufacturing.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Anomaly Detection and Fault Diagnosis”
Recap

Presenter: Kaibo Liu, IoT Center Director, ISyE Professor – UW-Madison

The “Anomaly Detection and Fault Diagnosis” webinar by Professor Kaibo Liu taught IoT members several anomaly detection techniques, including control chart for the univariate process, CUSUM and EWMA for detecting small shifts, risk-adjusted control charts, control chart for the multivariate process, causation-based SPC charts and extension, and cutting-edge techniques for online monitoring of big data streams. A variety of real examples and applications were covered during the session.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.

“Start Deep Learning with Python through Google Colab”
Recap

Instructor: Shiyu Zhou, IoT Center Director, ISyE Professor – UW-Madison

The webinar introduced the audience to the basics of Python programming and Keras package in Python. Google Colab was used as the platform to make these introductions.

IoT members can access recorded webinars and materials by emailing iotcenterevents@engr.wisc.edu.