Today: Off to beautiful Grenoble for “Jury Duty” for Benoît Vinot’s PhD defense on Smart Grid management and simulation

My colleagues Jiazi, Juan, and I, just finished the final editorial bits of process on a new paper “Use ’em or Lose ’em: On Unidirectional Links in Reactive Routing Protocols”, published in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks – and with the paper…
The other morning when coming in to the office, I was met with this poster on the entrance door, announcing a seminar “Comment Modéliser La Resource Éolienne” (“How To Model Wind Energy Ressources”), to be held on our campus, in…
Some time back, I was being recorded for a “talk-show” for ZDnet WebTV – the topic was smart cities, IoT etc. In the same talk show was Olivier Sellès, from Bouygues Immobilier, who is deeply involved in IssyGrid. I did not…
L’Usine Nouvelle nicely summarizes the SOGRID project, in which Ecole Polytechnique has been an enthusiastic partner. In summary, the pilot of the SmartGrid of tomorrow, which the ADEME SOGRID produced, includes 1000 households, 35 km of electricity grid, 300 “grid…
After two intense days, WSPLC2016 – the 10th workshop on power-line communication – has concluded. Ecole Polytechnique has been proud to be hosting this extremely exciting event, and its ~80 attendees, for these past two days. It is always enriching to be…
The 10th Workshop on Power-Line communications, at Ecole Polytechnique is off to a flying start this morning. With more than 80 participants, 20 technical presentations of high standards on topics including channel characterization, routing, test and PLC network simulation software,…
The SOGRID SmartGrid project, in which my research group at Ecole Polytechnique has been a partner, is – after three exciting years of hard, gratifying, and at times frustrating, work (as “working with the real world” sometimes can be) – coming…
LoRa (as developed by the LoRa Alliance) is a long-range, low-power, low-bitrate, wireless telecommunications system, promoted as an infrastructure solution for the Internet of Things: end-devices use LoRa across a single wireless hop to communicate to gateway(s), connected to the Internet…
Just a heads that while WSPLC 2016 Is filling up, there are some spots left and there’s still time to register and join us mid October at Ecole Polytechnique for this exciting two-day event. Don’t wait too long to sign…