Overview

Dr Atis Elsts is an independent consultant, as well as a senior researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (EDI).

Highlights of recent work

January 2024: I’m reducing my workload at EDI in order to focus on consulting work.

June 2023: the TIME-AMP project project has been successfully concluded, with a novel picosecond-accuracy event and amplitude analyzer developed in the project.

January 2023: The PRAESIIDIUM Horizon Europe project has started! The objective of EDI in the project is to develop a wearable device with biompendance capabilities.

November 2021: I’m presenting our work on TSCH for smart homes at the SenSys’21 conference, journal paper track!

February 2021: I’m presenting a demo abstract on TSCH-Sim in the EWSN 2021 conference.

December 2020: the paper “TSCH for Long Range Low Data Rate Applications” is accepted in IEEE Access.

September 2020: the paper “TSCH-Sim: Scaling Up Simulations of TSCH and 6TiSCH Networks” is accepted in MDPI Sensors.

June 2020: Collaboration with University of Bristol on feature selection is accepted in Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks and Applications.

March 2020: Collaboration with Seoul National University on TSCH scheduling accepted in IEEE Access.

March 2020: Collaboration with University of Bristol and Technical University of Denmark on on-board activity classification for wearables is accepted in MDPI Sensors.

October 2019: The paper on SPHERE TSCH has been accepted in the ACM Transactions on Internet of Things.

On the SPHERE project (smart homes for healthcare): on the low-power wireless infrastructure for the 100-homes deployment, 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: mobility in TSCH, sub-GHz TSCH network, TSCH for Contiki, channel selection, scheduling, simulation, the TSCH implementation on CC2650, and time synchronization using TSCH (1) (2).

Software and datasets

See GitHub for more.

Highlights of research positions

  • Research Associate in Internet of Things Networking at the University of Bristol and a core member of the SPHERE interdisciplinary research collaboration (IRC).

  • 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 the 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.