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14 September 2011, Brussels, Belgium

An information day is organized on 14 September 2011 from 09.30 to 16.00 (registration 09-09:30) in order to provide details on the Open Calls published by three of the FIRE experimental facilities: SmartSantander, CREW and OpenLab.

These Open Calls are designed to stimulate the use of the facilities of each of these facilities through new innovative experiments. The proposals will be selected and funded by SmartSantander, CREW and OpenLab; they shall be targeting at encouraging the usage of the facilities and the involvement of a significant number of additional users. As a result, the projects will expand and enhance the development of their infrastructure according to the needs of the users’ community. All the new experiments performed through these Open Calls shall contribute to the evolution of the facilities.

For more information:

FIRE (and FIRESTATION, organizing the event): http://www.ict-fire.eu/
Contact: Anastasius Gavras gavras(at)eurescom.eu

If you want to attend you must register and bring your Identification Card or Passport with you. Otherwise you will not be admitted to the information day. The policy applies due to access restrictions to the venue. Registration is closed now.

Deadline for registration was 26 August 2011 !!!

The 2nd FIRE "Open Calls" Information day will be held at the premises of the European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 33 and 25, 1160 Brussel.

Download a map of the area.

The location can be reached easily by metro. Take metro line number 5, direction Herrmann-Debroux; set-off at station Beaulieu.

Map of the Brussels metro network
Link to the metro operating company

It is recommended that you book your hotel early, as Brussels can be a difficult city to get a reasonably-priced hotel in September.
Some examples along the metro 5 line are:
Hotel Montgomery
Hotel Monty
Scandic Hotel Grand Place

You can always try one of the hotel reservation portals, such as http://www.hotel.be/

Morning : Plenary Session 09:30-12:30
Location/Room Av. Beaulieu, 25, 1160 Brussels, Belgium - BU25, 0/S1

Afternoon : Parallel sessions : SmartSantander, CREW and Open Lab - 13:30-16:00

• SmartSantander - Location/Room Av. Beaulieu, 25, 1160 Brussels, Belgium - BU25, 0/S1
• CREW - Location/Room Av. Beaulieu, 25, 1160 Brussels, Belgium - BU25, 0/S5
• OpenLab - Location/Room Av. Beaulieu, 33, 1160 Brussels, Belgium - BU33, 0/58

Download the draft agenda (if this link does not work for you please try this).

Plenary

Welcome by Per Blixt, European Commission, Head of Unit F4
Introduction to the Open Calls process, by Manuel Monteiro, Deputy Head of Unit F4

CREW project open call information by Ingrid Moerman, IBBT
SmartSantander project open call information by Luis Munoz, University of Cantabria
OpenLab project open call information by Timur Friedman, UPMC

SmartSantander session

SmartSantander Information on 1st Open Call for Experiments by Alex Gluhak and Luis Sanchez
Future Internet Research and Experimentation in the context of a Smart City: Smart Santander by Luis Munoz and Luis Sanchez
SmartSantander: Project Outline by Luis Munoz

CREW session

TWIST testbed 
w-iLab.t testbed 
LTE/LTE advanced testbed 
Iris / Iris testbed 
Imec sensing agent 
Thales XCVR API 

OpenLab session

Open call administrative information by Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom
PlanetLab Europe (PLE), by Timur Friedman, UPMC
NITOS wireless testbed, by Thanasis Korakis, CERTH
IBBT w-iLab.t, by Pieter Becue, IBBT
TSSG Experimental Facilities, Shane Dempsey, TSSG
IMS Testbed at Univ. of Patras, by Christos Tranoris, Univ. of Patras
Teagle, RADL, FCI, by Christos Tranoris, Univ. of Patras
NEPI: Network Experimentation Programming Interface, by Alina Quereilhac, INRIA (download the VORBIS video)
ETOMIC measurement infrastructure demonstration, by Victor Moreno, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid