Computer Science Professor / IoT Researcher http://cdeck3r.com DBE Hackathon Projects Winter 2020 - In the Internet of Things (IoT), we discuss a world where digital services are ubiquitously present and companion us during our activities and daily routines. In particular, IoT may support typical and repetitive home office activities or bridge remote groups doing collaborative work. The fundamental principles of functional IoT and... Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2021-04-17-DBE-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2021-04-17-DBE-IoTHackathon/ Using NLP to make the evolution of a research area and its topics visible - As a scientist, I am constantly challenged by the fast progress of my research area. What are relevant papers I shall read? What are the authors’ key topics on a conference and how are papers distributed among them? In this blog post, I demonstrate how to use NLP to derive... Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2020-05-31-NLPPaperAnalysis/ http://cdeck3r.com/2020-05-31-NLPPaperAnalysis/ DBE Hackathon Projects Winter 2019 - This term’s IoT hackathons took place end of January 2019 as part of my IoT lecture in the masters programs Digital Business Engineering. In this lecture, we discuss novel digital surroundings and their foundations where the value is generated primarily through digital service embedded into physical objects therewidth creating smart... Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2020-02-16-DBE-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2020-02-16-DBE-IoTHackathon/ SCM Hackathon Projects Summer 2019 - This term’s IoT hackathons took place end of June 2019 as part of my IoT lecture in the masters programs Services Computing. The hackathon was entitled “Bridging the gap: How IoT connects the digital and real world with each other”. It refers to the economic principle of IoT as described... Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2019-08-13-SCM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2019-08-13-SCM-IoTHackathon/ 3-month student project - I initiated and I am the principal investigator of student project ELMO. Electricity profiLe MOnitoring (ELMO) is energy monitoring with Commercially-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware. Acquisition systems are deployed for 43 sewing machines at the department of Textile & Design (TD) of Reutlingen University. This is followed by a longer unattended operation... Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2019-03-25-WIB-ELMO/ http://cdeck3r.com/2019-03-25-WIB-ELMO/ SCM / DBM Hackathon Projects Winter 2018 - Regular readers of this blog have probably noted that I organize Internet of Things (IoT) hackathons for two masters programs - Digital Business Management (DBM) and Services Computing (SCM). The DBM hackathon is more focussed on demonstrating abstracts IoT concepts, while the SCM hackathon emphasizes the IoT engineering principles. This... Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2019-02-18-DBMSCM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2019-02-18-DBMSCM-IoTHackathon/ DBM Hackathon Project Summer 2018 - I teach the fundamentals, technologies and processes of the Internet of Things (IoT) within the program Digital Business Management (DBM) and Services Computing. At this hackathon event, students were faced with the following situation: Imagine you were asked to develop a concept for a successful IoT application. Your team leads... Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2018-07-30-DBM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2018-07-30-DBM-IoTHackathon/ Distributed Economy and IoT Hackathon Summer 2018 - We brought together our computer science students from the IT Master program Services Computing with the students from the electrical engineering department at the Reutlingen University. In a 2-day hackathon on July 5/6, 2018 they have implemented a prototype blockchain based P2P transactions for an energy microgrid. See the video... Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2018-07-20-DEE-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2018-07-20-DEE-IoTHackathon/ SCM Hackathon Summer 2018 - Students of the IT Master program Services Computing (SCM) learn how the Internet of Things (IoT) will enable new digital services at home, for recreation, while shopping and for many more activities. Hackathons provide a great instrument to apply learnt scientific know-how. As a result, students experience individually and directly... Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2018-07-05-SCM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2018-07-05-SCM-IoTHackathon/ DBM Hackathon Projects - I teach the fundamentals, technologies and processes with the field of the Internet of Things (IoT) within the program Digital Business Management (DBM). At a hackathon event, students are required to design and implement an IoT project as a team. On January 30, 2018 they presented their projects. Goal: To... Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2018-03-05-DBM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2018-03-05-DBM-IoTHackathon/ Smart Environments for Teaching and Learning - In this winter term (Dec 11 and Dec 12, 2017) we conducted an IoT Hackathon as part of the IT Masters program Services Computing (SCM). During these short and very intense projects, students proof their understanding of core concepts from my IoT lecture. Check out this short video snippet capturing... Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2018-02-23-SCM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2018-02-23-SCM-IoTHackathon/ Services Computing as a Data Product - Services Computing (SCM) is an IT Masters program. It teaches the scientfic and engineering methods of IT-focused value creation for the digital business. We apply these methods to our own program by investigating our students’ journey through the program. One project is to provide SCM as a Data Product to... Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2017-08-03-SCM-DataProduct_CodingChallenge/ http://cdeck3r.com/2017-08-03-SCM-DataProduct_CodingChallenge/ Smart Environments for Teaching and Learning - This term’s IoT hackathon in the masters programme on Services Computing was about Smart Environments, where IoT services support various teaching and learning activities. Background & Motivation Teaching and learning at the HHZ is characterized by block courses enabling part-time Master’s studies for working professionals. Lectures last the entire day.... Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2017-06-13-SCM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2017-06-13-SCM-IoTHackathon/ Part of the curriculum for our students in the masters programme Services Computing is a project where they work as a team on a specific research topic. On April 24, 2017, we had our project day, where students presented intermediate and final results. The projects below were conducted under my... Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2017-04-24-SCM-Projectday/ http://cdeck3r.com/2017-04-24-SCM-Projectday/ Today, the students gave their final presentation of their hackathon projects. It is a part of my IoT lecture in the masters programme “Services Computing” (SCM) at the HHZ. The hackathon’s topic was to support the teaching and learning as part of a permanent Living Lab implemented in our lecture... Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2017-01-18-SCM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2017-01-18-SCM-IoTHackathon/ IoT and Blockchain - Today we have seen the final presenations of the IoT hackathon in the Digital Business Management (DBM) masters programme. Participants were given the task to investigate IoT Blockchain applications. They came up with the idea of MileChain to fight possible milage fraud in used-car deals. Basically, the blockchain records historical... Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2016-12-13-DBM-IoT-Hackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2016-12-13-DBM-IoT-Hackathon/ Today, I launch my new website hosted on github. You find information on my research and teaching activities. Thanks to Dean Attali for providing the beautiful jekyll template. Feel free to share in your social media channels. Cheers, Christian Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2016-12-12-website_launch/ http://cdeck3r.com/2016-12-12-website_launch/ On November 7, 2016 during the IoT2016 conference at Suttgart, Germany, Sebastian Mantsch and I gave an IoT Bluemix tutorial to the conference attendees. Our tutorial “IoT Platforms: Rapid Development of IoT Applications” implemented the following idea: Using sensing, computing and communication capabilities available in today’s smartphones and combine them... Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0100 http://cdeck3r.com/2016-11-08-IoTBluemixTutorial/ http://cdeck3r.com/2016-11-08-IoTBluemixTutorial/ The 2-day IoT hackathon in the masters programme “Services Computing” (SCM) has finished. Students were introduced to the Living Lab process and implemented various IoT application use cases using the Bluemix IoT platform. Following the process and for the sake of the hackathon, they started in the exploration phase. Using... Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0200 http://cdeck3r.com/2016-06-09-SCM-IoTHackathon/ http://cdeck3r.com/2016-06-09-SCM-IoTHackathon/