1st Workshop On The Internet Of Things (IOT 2013)

Dr. Antoine Bagula, with the University of Cape Town, is organizing the 1st Workshop On The Internet Of Things (IOT 2013) in October this year. The workshop is held in conjunction SAICSIT 2013 in East London, South Africa. More information is found here:

• 1st Workshop On The Internet Of Things (IOT 2013)

All papers will be published in an abstract booklet that will be distributed at the workshop venue. Extended versions of selected papers will be published, after a rigorous reviewing process, as chapters in a book with ISBN published by UNESCO (pending approval) or papers in an international journal (pending approval).

Dr. Bagula and Dr. Muthoni Masinde worked on a project for combining indigenous knowledge and distributed wireless sensors for weather and drought prediction. Within this work Dr. Masinde created here ITIKI framework, a bridge between IT and indigenous knowledge (IK). See more at the researchers home pages.