讲座通知
时间：2019年3月28日（周四）14：00
地点：主楼八层报告厅
面向对象：信息与通信工程学院教师与研究生
讲座人：英国拉夫堡大学Robert Edwards教授
主持人：信息与通信工程学院逯贵祯教授
讲座主题：Radios in the Jungle —— Internet of Things in Tropical Rain Forests for Flood Detection.
内容简介：Many of todays floods begin to form in dense tropical jungles that are often close to town and cities. Sensors can be placed on rivers and streams but getting the data to where it is needed can be challenging.
This talk will look at some of the pioneering work Dr Edwards and his team have done to study radio propagation using the rainy season inside tropical forests.
讲座专家简介: Robert Edwards is Reader in Mobile Communications at Loughborough University, UK, Director of the 5G Research Centre and Director of China Strategic Partnerships. He is a visiting Professor at Xidian University , Xi’an and Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing.
His current main academic task is a Global Challenges Research Fund project that is developing an emergency information water information network to predict floods using cellular networks. Flooding is the most severe of natural disasters humanity has to cope with concerning the loss of life, and the long-term effects of flooding have severely adverse social consequences. Unlike the UK that has a good flood defence system, many countries have not been able to afford the technology and have a poor response to flooding. However, many developing countries do now have access to modern cellular phone networks in their towns and cities. So in this project, will discover how to use mobile phone networks combined with WiFi to help countries tackle climate change.