Bio
Pat Pannuto is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. Pat received a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MSE and BSE from the University of Michigan. Pat’s research is in the broad area of networked embedded systems, with contributions in architecture, wireless, mobile, OS, and development engineering. Pat is an NSF, NDSEG, and Qualcomm Innovation Fellow and received teaching awards from the CSE Department, the College of Engineering, and the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan. You can find more information at patpannuto.com.
Abstract
Wireless electronic devices exist in a throwaway culture. Service lifetimes average just 1.5-5 years. This is not sustainable. We cannot afford the person power to constantly replace devices, nor the carbon cost of manufacturing electronics for such limited use—85% of the carbon footprint of wireless devices is their manufacture, not use.
This talk will look at the problem from two directions. We will first consider some of the most plentiful (and surprisingly powerful) compute experiencing rapid turnover today, i.e. smartphones. We will show how discarded phones can be repurposed as compute units that are equal-or-more efficient than equivalent contemporary sensors and servers in applications spanning from environmental monitoring to cloud computing. We will then turn our attention to the emerging Internet of Everything and its trillions of new devices to imagine the design of “self-sufficient sensors”, touch-once devices with aims to promise that once-deployed their firmware will never crash and their batteries will never die.
