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GEOHive Report 2018
S. Filhol, J. F. Burkhart, A. Fouilloux
First, the initial name GEOHive has been updated to UiO Hive for public disclosure, as the hub
has the intent to be inclusive of the broader spectrum of disciplines at UiO. Since, its started,
UiO Hive has reached out to a variety of groups across campus and plan to keep doing so.
Interest from students, engineers, researchers, and professors was shown by the successful
and well attended kick-off meeting on September 18, 2018. UiO Hive has already allowed to
establish partnership within UiO, and outside of UiO (with Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth
Observing Network System, SIOS, and with UNIS). Further collaboration with other research
group will be seek. See below activities happening in relation to Hive.
The UiO Hive hub-node structure has been set up in January 2018 and its core team members
are working in the department of Geosciences:
- John Burkhart, associate professor at the Department of Geosciences in the
Geography and Hydrology research group: his main research interests are hydrologic
and Atmospheric Research in Arctic and Cryospheric Systems to understand coupling large
scale atmospheric dynamics with climate and hydrologic sensitivity for energy and water
resource evaluation.
- Ana Costa Conrado, head engineer at the Department of Geosciences in the IT group:
Ana has a strong interest in machine and deep learning and how these methods can be
applied to scientific problems.
- Simon Filhol, postdoc at the Department of Geosciences in the Geography and
Hydrology research group: his research interests are around dynamic and interactions of
seasonal snow on the ground in boreal and Arctic environments.
- Anne Fouilloux, research software engineer at the Department of Geosciences in the IT
group: her main task is to provide research support to researchers' and students' and help
them to move toward open science.
- John Hulth, head engineer at the Department of Geosciences in the Geography and
Hydrology research group: he is providing technical support for the development of sensor
and power board and is taking part to field campaign for the deployment of sensors. He has
a strong interest in micro-electronic.
The nodes are composed of researchers from various institutions:
- Department of Geosciences:
- Norbert Pirk: postdoctoral fellow. Norbert has interest in sensor
development competences for geophysical applications in alpine and
arctic environments.
- Christopher Nuth: postdoctoral fellow. Christopher seeks expertise in
wireless communication to optimize the observation of glacier in Svalbard.
- Jarosh Obu: Postdoctoral fellow. Jarosh is interested to use time-lapse
camera technology developed by Hive. A system will be deployed in
Slovenia in October 2018 to study patterned ground in a permafrost cave.
- Pierre-Marie Lefeuvre: researcher. Postdoctoral fellow. Pierre Marie is
interested in the time-lapse camera system and the IoT sensor solution
for glaciology studies.
- Thomas V. Schuler: Professor. Thomas has had strong interest in the
development of new technologies for application to geophysical sciences.
Thomas, as part of SIOS, has provided contact for Hive to be a
community of interest to the development of the future SIOS
observational network.
- Department of Technology Systems:
- Øyvind Kure: professor in the section for Autonomous Systems and
Sensor Technologies. His strong expertise in wireless communication
would help to build more reliable network of sensors in Finse and
Svalbard. On his side, Øyvind is seeking for real applications for teaching
(5th semester of bachelors) and possible master student subjects.
- Department of Informatics:
- Krister Borge: principal engineer, IT services group: He is our main
contact point for Open Zone and has strong connections with students at
IFI. His involvement in the project is an asset to attract students interested
in developing new technologies as well as have strong skills in software
development. His is expecting the UiO-Hive can make use of the Open
Zone for research projects.
- Tor Sverre Lande: Professor. Started under the LATICE project,
collaboration with Prof. Lande’s group will continue for sensor
development.
- University Center for Information Technology:
- Jarle Ebeling: Head of Group «Data Capture and Collections
Management Group». Jarle initiated our collaboration with HumanGIS
Hub-node project and his overall understanding of data management is
an asset for both UiOHive and HumanGIS.
- Thomas Röblitz: Senior Engineer in the Research Infrastructure Services
Group. Thomas organized a one day workshop on «AI-based data-driven
science workshop on September 7th, 2018». We will pursue our
collaboration with USIT in order to fulfill our infrastructure needs regarding
machine and deep learning.
- Department of Musicology
- Ximena Alarcon Diaz: postdoctoral fellow. As part of the INTIMAL project
(Interfaces for Relational Listening - body, Memory, Migration,
Telematics), she is seeking for expert advice on how to exploit her sensor
data using machine and deep learning.
- SIOS, Jean Charles Gallet at the Norwegian Polar Institute in charge of the SIOS
snow observing network development in Svalbard.
- UNIS, Christopher Borstad, Assistant Professor has also strong interest in IoT
technology for solving geophysical problems associated to glacier dynamics.
Hive@UiO dissemination:
The project website has been set-up at
https://www.mn.uio.no/geo/english/research/projects/hive/ and contains information about
the project itself.
As anticipated in the project proposal, we have set-up a collaborative platform which is now
composed of:
- A github organization https://github.com/UiOHive
- 3 open repositories:
o Hive website (https://github.com/UiOHive/Hive): this repository has a central
role in the UiOHive project as it contains the sources for our collaborative
platform (https://github.com/UiOHive/Hive). The UiOHive collaborative
platform contains information on what we do, events we organize and
teaching materials of interests for the Hub-node.
o FinseDashboard (https://github.com/UiOHive/FinseDashboard): all
observations monitored at Finse are stored in a database () with real-time
plots available at ???.
o IoT_arduino_nano (https://github.com/UiOHive/IoT_arduino_nano):
teaching material used for the Arduino workshop given on the 18th September
2018 at Open Zone. The rendered lesson is available at
https://uiohive.github.io/IoT_arduino_nano/
Several presentations have been given to present the UiO-Hive project across the UiO
campus as well as in international conference and seminars:
- LATICE Annual seminar meeting 2018 at Sundvollen. Talk given by Simon Filhol, The
Hive Initiative. S Filhol, J. F. Burkhart, A. Fouilloux
- Geohyd lunch seminar at the department of Geosciences, UiO. Talk given by Simon
Filhol
- Research Software Engineer 2018, University of Birmingham. Talk given by Ana Costa
Conrado and entitled “UiOHive: a local Hub-node organization for building competence
in IoT” by alphabetical order: John F. Burkhart, Ana Costa Conrado, Simon Filhol, Anne
Fouilloux. As a result of this presentation, we are now collaborating with Colin Sauze
(Research Software Engineer at Aberystwyth University) on the development of a new
Software Carpentry lesson on Internet of Things (IoT). The github repository is available
at https://github.com/annefou/IoT_introduction and the rendered lesson at
https://annefou.github.io/IoT_introduction/- Workshop “AI-based data-driven science”, USIT, UiO, September 7th , 2018. Talk given
by Ana Costa Conrado and entitled “Beyond Geoscience frontiers: Machine and Deep
learning for Research applications”. Presentation is available on Zenodo
(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1412287)
Four tutorials have been developed (all available at https://uiohive.github.io/Hive/lessons/)
- Why a Github account? Material is available on github
(https://github.com/UiOHive/Hive/tree/gh-pages/lessons/SG-L1-whyGithub) and
rendered page at https://uiohive.github.io/Hive/lessons/SG-L1-whyGithub/whyGithub/
- Starting with Python for Science: material is available on github
(https://github.com/UiOHive/Hive/blob/gh-pages/lessons/SG-L1-Python/starting_with_pyt
hon.md) and rendered webpage at
https://uiohive.github.io/Hive/lessons/SG-L1-Python/starting_with_python/
- Reproducible Research with Interactive Jupyter Dashboards: teach researchers on how
to create jupyter dashboards and plot real-time data from Finse station. The material is
developed as a github repository (https://github.com/annefou/jupyter_dashboards) and
the rendered webpage is available at https://annefou.github.io/jupyter_dashboards/
- Learn to use Arduino Nano and build a simple weather station. The material is available
on github at https://github.com/UiOHive/IoT_arduino_nano and the rendered webpage at
https://uiohive.github.io/IoT_arduino_nano/
Two workshops were given:
- Research Bazaar @UiO, 2 February 2018: Reproducible Research with Interactive
Jupyter Dashboards (https://uio-carpentry.github.io/2018-02-08-dashboards/)
- UiO-Hive kick-off at Open Zone, 18 September 2018: Build a simple weather station
with Arduino Nano (https://github.com/UiOHive/Hive/issues/1)
Future plans:
Collaborations in progress:
- Wireless communication for IoT solution in geoscience with the Department of
Technological Systems (ITS) at UiO
- Deployment of a new network in Svalbard for snow physics and glaciology in
collaboration with SIOS, NPI, and Telenor using technology develop in Hive.
Starting spring 2018.
- Climate container at the department of geoscience with SNOWMATE, a proposal
submitted to the NFR Klimaforsk call of September 2018.
- Promoting Involvement of Master/PhD students from key departments
(Geosciences, ITS, Physics, IFI) for projects using Hive as a basis.
Infrastructure development, pursuing work- Hardware design of a first version for an IoT weather station. Finalizing the first
suite of sensors and test in the field over winter 2018-2019
- Software development for IoT weather station:
- Firmware for IoT device
- Network gateway for IoT network. Solution that is replicable for new
network
- Database solution for handling IoT data
- Visualization, open web portal
- Establishing a student competition to invite interdisciplinary group of students to
form and solve and develop technologies.
Workshop and meetings.
- Hive will seek avenues to share its competences to a broader audience with
workshop on how to use IoT technologies over the year 2019
- Hive will continue organizing meetings where individuals from its nodes can
share knowledge, and establish new interdisciplinary collaboration.
Budget outlook
September 2018: 750 000 NOK were allocated for 2018. This include 6 month Salary for S.
Filhol, hardware and software development cost, and meeting/workshop cost. Salary for S.
Filhol will be deduced in 2019 as the current contract could not be extended over the 2018
period. A new contract of one year as researcher was signed with the Faculty for the year 2019,
based on the total amount of money allocated from this project. Given this, as of September 20,
2018, a total of 40852.36 NOK has been spent on: 1) hardware equipment for the IoT
infrastructure, 2) software development for the IoT solution, and 3) hardware for workshop. For
this year, it remains 325147.64 NOK that is planned to be used for software and hardware
development for the IoT solution, and support for student projects.Photos of the Kick-off meeting on September 18, 2018
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