| Time | 14:15 – 15:55 |
| Location | ❼ Jakarta room (AMS level 3) |
| Capacity | 12 |
Octopus is an open-source, low-cost platform for makers to develop personal urban sensing projects.
In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to build one Octopus, configure it for specific use case, deploy it for automated data collection and perform simple data analysis.
No prerequisites are necessary but familiarity with Arduino is welcome.
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Simone Mora is a Research Scientist at MIT (USA) and an Adj. Ass. Professor at NTNU (Norway). He does research on low-cost sensing technologies and their applications for future cities. He leads MIT’s City Scanner Research Initiative, which develops sensing platforms currently used by cities and research institutes worldwide to give data-driven answers society-critical research questions in the fields of environmental science and city planning. His recent publications appeared on Elsevier HardwareX, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Nature Sustainability. He is the co-inventor of Tiles IoT Toolkit, an ideation toolkit to tackle the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (tilestoolkit.io).
Nils Wolff is a Research Fellow at the MIT Senseable City Lab in Amsterdam. Mostly working in the field of active mobility, he is driven by finding patterns in human trajectories and transportation data to ensure livable cities now and in the future. Nils maintains his background in robotics through hands-on prototyping and engineering work, appreciating the complete development cycle from initial concept to final implementation.
Åse Håtveit, MSc, is a Research Fellow at the MIT Senseable City Lab, specializing in monitoring urban biodiversity using edge AI technologies. Her academic research involves the development of low-cost environmental sensing tools and the collection of data to inform the creation of future cities. Åse’s work is driven by a commitment to enhancing our understanding of urban ecosystems and promoting biodiversity in urban environments.
Oluwatobi Oyinlola is a Research Fellow at the MIT Senseable City Lab. He holds a Master’s degree in Internet of Things and Embedded Computing Systems from the African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things, University of Rwanda as a World Bank scholar. In 2025, he broke the Guinness World Record for creating the smallest GPS tracking device (prototype). He currently serves as an Intel Advisory Board Member for IoT and sits on the Board of the Open-Source Hardware Association (OSHWA).