Overview
Dr Atis Elsts is a Research Associate with the University of Bristol, UK, and a core member of the SPHERE interdisciplinary research collaboration (IRC). His research interest are in the field of Networked Embedded Systems, and more broadly, in the Internet of Things. Atis is also a contributor and a maintainer of the Contiki-NG operating system for the Internet of Things, and a member of IEEE.
Highlights of recent publications
On the SPHERE project (smart homes for healthcare): on the low-power wireless infrastructure for the 100-homes deployement, on lessons learned from using the Contiki OS, on feature extraction on wearables for daily activity recognition of the participants.
On the Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) network protocol: TSCH for Contiki, channel selection, scheduling, simulation, the TSCH implementation on CC2650, and time synchronization using TSCH (1) (2).
Software and datasets
Contiki-NG, an IoT operating system
Microsecond-accuracy time synchronization implementation using TSCH on Texas Instruments CC2650 hardware.
A simple TSCH simulator.
Smart Home Architect, a web-based game that interactively demonstrates the SPHERE technology.
See GitHub for more.
Highlights of research positions
Researcher at SICS Swedish ICT (now RISE SICS), 2015. Atis was a member of the Networked Embedded Systems Group and participated in implementing the IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH protocol in the Contiki operating system.
Researcher at Uppsala University, 2014-2015. Atis was involved in the ProFuN project (A Programming Platform for Future Wireless Sensor Networks), where his contribution was the ProFuN TG, a tool for developing and managing sensor network applications that are aware of performance requirements.
Research assistant at Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (IECS or EDI, Riga, Latvia), 2010-2013, and PhD student at University of Latvia. Atis' PhD thesis describes a software framework designed to facilitate wireless sensor network programming.