Subcommittee on  (Wireless) Sensor Networks in Industrial & Factory Automation Chairs: Frank Golatowski, University of Rostock, Germany Lucia LoBello, University of Catania, Italy Scope: Design and Implementation of sensors and actuators; Development Environments and Tools; Energy Control; Hardware/Software; Data Integration and Fusion; Algorithms; Wireless Integrated Networked Sensors, Wideband Networked Sensors, System Architecture; Power Management, Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control, Time Synchronization, Distributed Localization Algorithms Routing, Distributed Signal Processing, Software Development, Security.   Frank Golatowski is with the excellence centre on life science automation CELISCA where he is leading the research group on wireless sensor network. His works aims at transferring research results gathered in the field of wireless sensor networks into life science automation. He is responsible for courses on “Real-Time Systems”, “Embedded Systems”, and “Networked Embedded Systems” at Rostock University. His current research interests are in the field of wireless sensor networks, ambient intelligence, and device-centric service-oriented architectures. He was a senior research assistant of electrical engineering at University of Rostock, where he built-up real-time systems group and the mobile robotics lab. He took part with his team “CoolRUNners” at various RoboCup competitions (e.g. world championship) and received leading places.  He was chair of a series of special sessions on service-oriented architectures (INDIN, IECON) in converged networks and is now chair of SOCNE workshop. He served as a PC member and reviewer of various conferences (e.g. ETFA, INDIN, IECON, AINA) and reviewer or editorial board member of Trans. of Industrial Informatics, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, and EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. He worked as a reviewer for European Commission and Belgium public authority. In 2006 he received the ITEA achievement award for outstanding contributions in the SIRENA project (www.itea2.org) on service-oriented infrastructures. He initiated the WS4D Open Source initiative ws4d.org for deploying web services based solutions for embedded systems. Dr. Golatowski received Dipl.-Ing degree (1989) in Cybernetics and Automation and a Doctorate degree (1998) in Computer Engineering from University of Rostock, Germany. Contact email address: f.golatowski@iestcfa.org

Lucia LoBello Dr. Lucia LoBello is an Associate Professor, with tenure, at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Catania, Italy. She is also the head of the REal-TIme Systems and NETworks laboratory at the university. She was a visiting researcher at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; post-doctoral scholarship provided by BRAIN KOREA 21 Information Technology Program (2000-01). Her research interests include factory automation, real-time systems, industrial communication, embedded systems and wireless sensor networks.She published over 45 papers in  refereed conference proceedings, journals and book chapters. She is a member of the International Electrotechnical Commission  (IEC), Technical Committee SC65C, Working Group 11, Real-Time Industrial Ethernet (RTE) - actively involved in the standardization activity. She was a workshop chair for RTLIA 03, general chair of ECRTS 04, and program co-chair for ETFA 05. She has been in charge of a number of international research project representing University of Catania. Dr. LoBello received MD in Electronic Engineering (1994), and PhD in Computer Engineering (1998), both from the University of Catania. Contact email address: l.lobello@iestcfa.org