IoT (Internet of Things) is a key technology to deepen the digitization of society, and therefore many people believe the importance of promoting IoT research, development, and deployment for future society growth. The APAN IoT Working Group is a forum for discussions and collaborations on IoT platforms, infrastructures, services, and applications. Please feel free to present your IoT-related applications and services, including case studies of demonstrations and work-in-progress experiments.
Speaker3 (30 min.) <online presentation>
Name: Mr. Abhimanyu Pandey
Organization: ICT4D, Nepal
Email: iampandey@gmail.com
Title: Integrated LPWAN and Edge Computing SystemsAbstract: Developing a trustworthy (high sensitivity, high specificity) Early Warning System (EWS) for Climatic and/or Geological Events is not only a challenge but also crucial for any nation. With the vagaries in weather patterns, even seemingly minor disturbances can at times lead to major disaster type events. Many disasters related to water (e.g. flooding, etc.), lightening (e.g. fire, etc.), and many other events related to climate and geological causes can become large scale disasters as they move into populated regions.
In Nepal, there are many instances of flooding which have a multiplier effect due to the path which the flood waters take, especially through downstream water catchment or watershed regions. Hence, EWS serves simultaneously serves multiple purposes in Risk Reduction, Resource Allocation, Public Safety, etc.
The project team is in the research phase on how to integrate Edge Computing with Internet of Things (IoT) Sensor Networks (e.g. LoRaWAN) to enhanced Early Warning System.
Research Problem
It is essential to have time critical decisions at the point of data collection (point of incidence) rather than routing all sensor data to a central Data Center for analysis and processing.
This is the reason to integrate IoT (Data Network) with Edge Computing (Decision Making) in low logical latency environments.
This presentation is a presentation on our current research.
BIO: Abhimanyu Pandey is a team member of a profit-not-distributing research and outreach centric company based in Nepal. We work on projects based on Private Public Partnership business models to ensure sustainability through high quality service delivery. I specifically research intranet and local cache based systems in rural regions. I am also involved in developing and implementing rural and remote healthcare delivery models as part of the larger impetus to streamline Government to Citizen (G2C) services. Our most current focus is on Reproductive, Maternal, and Child healthcare delivery, especially through non-institutional healthcare delivery settings and non-traditional patient encounters.
Speaker4 (30 min.) <online presentation>
Name: Dr. Samo Grasic
Organization: Dálvvadis Economical Association, Sweden
Email: samo@grasic.net
Title: Benefit Today from Future Interplanetary Internet ArchitectureAbstract:Originally designed for interplanetary communications, Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) offers robust and resilient solutions for terrestrial applications as well. This talk provides an overview of DTN fundamentals, highlights practical deployments—including ongoing plans in Nepal—and explores how the technology addresses connectivity challenges in remote environments. Through real examples, we’ll see how space-driven networks can bring transformative benefits here on Earth.
BIO: Dr. Samo Grasic is the initiator of LateLab AB, specializing in custom Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) solutions for communication-challenged environments. In 2024, he became the lead of IPNSIG’s Project Working Group, underscoring his dedication to advancing DTN technologies and standards. Since 2016, he has worked at Dálvvadis Economical Association, spearheading the Nomatrack LoRa-DTN platform for reindeer herding in remote Arctic regions. Dr. Grasic earned his PhD from Luleå University of Technology and brings over a decade of experience bridging academia and industry, with expertise in routing, low-power systems, and the social impacts of ICT deployments.
