Presentation at the FER Open Door Day

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On Saturday, November 25, 2023, the Open Doors Day of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) took place and attracted numerous visitors. This event offered the public, especially high-school students, the opportunity to explore the study programmes available at FER and learn about the ongoing research projects. Numerous departments and laboratories showcased their

The first public presentation of the project AIoTwin

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The first public presentation of the project AIoTwin was held on May 24, 2023, during the National Information Day of the Horizon Europe Programme, organized by the Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes. The project coordinator Ivana Podnar Žarko presented the objectives and activities of the project, as well as the expected results, outcomes and

New mobile application for precision agriculture presented

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The participants of the workshop “Precision agriculture and continuous data collection from the field” were presented with a software and hardware solution for monitoring the state of crops and environmental parameters in real time, which were developed during three years of project activities. Using the developed mobile application, users can view data from different sources,

AIoTwin: Kick-off meeting

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We launched a new project “AIoTwin: Twinning action for spreading excellence in Artificial Intelligence of Things” on January 1, 2023, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme. The AIoTwin kick-off meeting took place from January 31st to February 1st 2023 in sunny Zagreb, Croatia, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Our research assistants successful at the SoftCOM 2022 PhD Forum

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Our research assistants successfully presented their research at the PhD Forum, held on September 23, 2022, as part of the conference SoftCOM 2022 – the 30th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks in Split: 🔹 Ivan Čilić held a presentation entitled “Adaptive Data-Driven Edge-to-Cloud Environment” (mentor: Prof. Ivana Podnar Žarko, PhD). 🔹 Katarina

Our students won the Rector’s award!

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The University of Zagreb has published the list of Rector’s Award winners for the academic year 2021/2022. As many as 65 students of FER were awarded the Rector’s Award, and the awarding of the Rector’s Award was held on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at FER. Among the awarded students are undergraduate and graduate students who

Public presentation of the project IoT4us

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On Thursday, June 30, 2022, we organized a public presentation of the IoT4us project, which was attended by numerous guests from the industry, the academic community, and students. After the introductory words of the project manager, prof. Ivana Podnar Žarko, PhD, members of the research team presented their work and results. Postdoc Petar Krivić, PhD and research assistant

Second season of the urban garden at FER

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Considering the great success of the urban garden set up at FER last year, the members of the Laboratory have set up an even bigger urban garden in the yard of FER again this year! As well as last year, various sensors will monitor the condition of the tomatoes and peppers planted by our colleagues

Participation in the conference “Ladies in AI Business”

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Our research assistant Katarina Mandarić gave a lecture at the conference “Ladies of AI Business“. “Ladies of New Business” is a long-standing conference organized by Netokracija, and this edition of the conference was dedicated to the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The conference hosted several panels and lectures with the participation of experts

Participation in the SmartSoc multiplier event

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At the public presentation of the SmartSoc project held last week, which was attended by high school students, our research assistant Katarina Mandarić presented the IoT field project, the urban smart garden set up in the FER yard and student projects in our laboratory. In addition, she gave a lecture “From students to lecturers” with

Presentation at the conference “Better education, better Croatia”

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Our research assistant Katarina Mandarić participated in the presentation of FER at the conference “Better education, better Croatia” organized by 24sata.   Katarina held a presentation titled “Networked devices and IoT-services for the digitalization of agriculture” about the project “IoT-field: An Ecosystem of Networked Devices and Services for IoT Solutions Applied in Agriculture” in which

Representing our Faculty at the University of Zagreb Summit

Last week, from Thursday November 25th to Saturday, November 27th, the University of Zagreb Summit was held. Among the presented FER projects was our urban garden set up as part of the IoT-field project. For the Summit, we prepared a video about the urban garden and the IoT-field project in which you can see exactly

First yield of our urban garden

Less than two months ago, members of the Laboratory set up an urban garden of peppers and tomatoes in the Faculty’s yard as part of the IoT-field project, and on Thursday, July 22, the first fruits were harvested. Two kilograms of peppers have been harvested and more are ripening, but we will have to have

3rd generation of students attending course Internet of Things

We are proud of the 3rd generation of students who successfully completed the Internet of Things course of the FER graduate programme. At the end of the semester, student teams presented their projects (in person, finally), from idea to realization, using networked devices and IoT platforms. This year’s themes were: Farming IoT It allows the

Tomato and pepper garden at FER

On Wednesday, May 26, members of the Internet of Things Laboratory set up a real small garden in FER’s backyard as part of the IoT-Field project. Numerous sensors monitor the conditions for tomato and pepper seedlings planted by our University colleagues from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb. While planting the seedlings, for the

Head of the laboratory awarded with the Faculty Science Award

On Friday, November 20th, 2020, the Day of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb was celebrated. Numerous recognitions and awards were given to the most successful students and employees of the Faculty at the ceremony. Head of our laboratory professor Ivana Podnar Žarko, PhD was awarded the Award for science of

Sensor node for air quality monitoring in urban environments

Members of the IoTLab Assoc.Prof. Marin Vuković and Pavle Skočir, Ph.D. participated in the project Development of a device for air quality monitoring in urban environments – Meto plus. The project was carried out in collaboration with Selmet d.o.o. and co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Program Competitiveness

DL-Tags video received the 2019 IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award

Promotional video published to promote our scientific paper DL-Tags: DLT and Smart Tags for Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, and Verifiable Supply Chain Management, authored by Federico Matteo Benčić, Pavle Skočir and Ivana Podnar Žarko, has received the 2019 IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award for its “originality, innovation and potential benefit to humanity“. The video was among 3

Review paper on the application of DLT in the energy sector published in IEEE Access

A new review paper has just been published in the open access journal IEEE Access which provides an overview of the applications of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for the energy sector. The paper reviews the advantages and limitations of DLT and identifies major technical challenges that need to be addressed to enable a widespread usage

New project “IoT-field” started

FER signed three new agreements within the “Investing in Science and Innovation” call for projects, financed from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) on the 13th of March. Among them is our project IoT-field: An Ecosystem of Networked Devices and Services for IoT Solutions Applied in Agriculture. The goal of the project “An Ecosystem of

Prof. Ivana Podnar-Žarko held a talk at the European Space Agency workshop at FER

During the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, a workshop by the European Space Agency (ESA), “Space Technologies for the Green Plan and Digital Economy“, was organized on March 5-6, 2020, in Zagreb, at our faculty, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Zagreb. The workshop, organized by the

Starting a new project in 2020 – IoT4us

The beginning of this year has marked the start of a new project in the Internet of Things Lab, “IoT4us: Human-centric (smart) services in interoperable and decentralised IoT environments“. The project is funded under the “Research Projects” program of the Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) for the period of 4 years, until 31.12.2023. The project leader

Representing our Faculty at the University of Zagreb Summit

The master thesis of Katarina Mandarić, M.Sc. “Intelligent management of lighting in a smart home”, mentor prof. Gordana Ježić, Ph.D., supervisior Pavle Skočir, Ph.D., was one of seven selected papers that FER presented at the University of Zagreb Summit. The event ran from November 21 to 23, 2019. It gives future students the chance to find

We are part of the new founded Center for Artificial Intelligence

FER founded a new center, the Center for Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind in Croatia, and the Laboratory for the Internet of Things is a member of the newly founded Center. The Center will be a central institution that will coordinate activities in the field of artificial intelligence development, as well as a

Lecture at 5G day “IoT solutions for digital transformation of cities”

On the 23rd of September 2019, Ivana Podnar Žarko gave a lecture at the 5G day event organized by HAKOM entitled IoT-based Digital Solutionts for transformation of cities. She pointed out that we need interoperable IoT ecosystems to offer useful and replicable applications to citizens which cover various cities and communities. A recording of the lecture is

New course at FER “Internet of Things”

““Internet of Things”, a new course, has been introduced at FER in the academic year 2018./19. which was successfully passed by 30 FER graduate students in the summer semester. The course covers the IoT-stack completely, and the students had the opportunity (through laboratory exercises and the final project) to develop a complete solution, from networking of

Award for Best Paper at the GIoTS2019 Meeting in Aarhus, Denmark

The scientific paper, our members were a part of, on the topic of interoperability for IoT platforms, representing the results of the H2020 symbIoTe project, was awarded for the best paper at the 2019 Global IoT Summit. The symbIoTe Solution for Semantic and Syntactic Interoperability of Cloud-based IoT Platforms Podnar Žarko, Ivana ; Mueller, Szymon

Invited lecture at IoT Week in Aarhus, Denmark

The results of the H2020 symbIoTe research project gained significant visibility at this year’s IoT Week 2019 meeting in Aarhus, Denmark, which brought together a record 1,600 participants. Prof. dr. sc. Ivana Podnar Žarko gave an invited lecture as part of the keynote session „The Challenges of the IoT Cross-Domain Integration“ named „The symbIoTe Solution for Cross-Domain and