Germany Section IEEE Consumer Technology Society Chapter

Dr. Ing. Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos

Chair of Computer Engineering, University of Passau

+49 (0)851 509-3045

Nikolaos.Anagnostopoulos@Uni-Passau.De

Officers / Board Members

Chair: Dr.-Ing. Nikolaos Athanasios Anagnostopoulos, University of Passau
Vice-Chair 1: Michael Jakobi, contagi
Vice-Chair 2: Nico Mexis, University of Passau
Secretary: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tolga Arul, University of Passau

Upcoming events

  • Future technical meetings of the German Chapter of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society will be announced here.
  • 14th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2025)
    Co-located with IFA Berlin and IEEE WTS

    6-8 September 2025

    Held at:
    Messe Berlin
    Messedamm 22
    14055 Berlin

    Description:

    Ladies and Gentlemen,

    We cordially invite you to the 14th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-Berlin) taking place from 6-8 September 2025 as part of IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin), the leading tradeshow of consumer technology and electronics.

    So what is ICCE-Berlin 2025 about?
    It’s all about innovation, digitalization of the society and industries in a sustainable and energy efficient way. It’s also about collaborative advantage, the way we work together – not just in research which is the focus of the ICCE-Berlin 2025. Across the value chain it is about collaborative recognition of ecosystems and building multi-party ecosystems.

    ICCE-Berlin is the scientific backbone of the IFA exhibition. So be ready for inspiring and exciteful exchange across consumer technology architecture domains including hardware and software systems, internet of things, human machine interface, sensors and actuators, machine learning & AI, quantum computing … All of this will enable new and novel use cases and extended reality. The Metaverse has a clear vision of how to achieve all this, to unlock value – not just economic value, but value in terms of sustainability, energy efficiency, trust, readiness and digital inclusion.

    It is our special pleasure that our conference this year is hosting the IEEE Second World Technology Summit (WTS). The WTS is an all keynote-level speaker event and features top executives from around the world who discuss burning issues surrounding specific topics and how to solve related immediate problems. Please note the topics covered in this installment of the summit.

    We hope to see you all soon at the IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2025!

    The Organizing Committee

    More information:

    More information can be found on the website of IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2025!
    A Call for Papers is also available!

Recent past events

  • Symposium on Consumer and Broadcast Technology – Innovation for All (IFA)
    Meeting of the Virtual European Chapter and the German Chapter of IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) + Site Event for the 100 Years of IFA: “100 Moments”

     

    7 September 2024 10.00 – 15.30

     

    Held at:
    VDE Berlin
    Bismarckstraße 33
    Berlin

     

    Description:

    IFA 100 – Innovation for all

    On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the IFA and the 145th anniversary of the ETV Berlin-Brandenburg, a hybrid IEEE CTSoc Symposium will be held in cooperation with the VDE Berlin-Brandenburg (ETV), the VDE Rhein-Main and the IEEE Broadcast Technology (BT) Society.

    Leif Lindner, head of the IFA management company, will speak in his welcoming address about the vision for changing IFA in its global context. IFA is the leading trade fair for consumer electronics and household appliances. Today it is becoming younger, more international and hipper. Lindner: “I believe that we have clearly managed to improve, refine and adapt our brand image and usher in the start of a new era.” This starts with the name IFA. It once stood for “Internationale Funkausstellung” but now this name no longer describes what IFA actually is standing for. Today, IFA stands for “Innovation for all”.

    Renowned speakers such as Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Brandenburg one of the inventors of the mp3 file format, probably the most important development for the music industry since the vinyl record, will talk about his vision to connect the digital and real world through immersive audio and unlock the full potential of human hearing. “We want to enable everyone to dive deep into any soundscape.”

    Architect Mattes Buskies will speak about the intermittent vision of the IFA trade fair, Werner von Siemens’s idea of “Ingenuity for Life” and the connection between electrical engineering and well-being. He will explain how well-known buildings in Berlin such as the Radio Tower, the “Haus des Rundfunks” and the “VDE-Haus Bismarckstraße 33” have their own design language and convey a message of the New Objectivity.

    The event is organized as a hybrid chapter meeting of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society together with Stefan Mozar, IEEE Consumer Technology, and Peter Siebert, IEEE Broadcast Technology Society. Experience an exciting day with presentations by renowned speakers, institutions and experts.

    Organizer

    VDE Berlin-Brandenburg (ETV)

    Co-Organizers

    IEEE CTSoc
    VDE Rhein-Main e.V.
    IEEE BT Society
    VDE ITG

    Program of Symposium on Consumer and Broadcast Technology - Innovation for All (IFA)

  • Securing Everyday Digital Life – An Approach towards Detection, Precise Localization, and Effective Isolation of Concealed IoT Devices in Unfamiliar Environments

    https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/440577

    Date and Time

    • Date: 02 Dec 2024
    • Time: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM
    • All times are (UTC+01:00) Berlin
     

    Location

    • Virtual attendance
     

    Host

    • Germany Section Chapter, CT08
     

    Registration

     

    Speaker Biography

     

    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Katzenbeisser of the University of Passau

    Stefan Katzenbeisser (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at TU Wien. Following his habilitation in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (2009), he was a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 2012 until 2019. Since 2019, he has been a full professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Passau, Germany. His main research interests include cryptographic protocols (design, analysis), cryptographic techniques for noisy and fuzzy data, privacy-enhancing technologies, software security, watermarking, digital rights management, copyright protection, and malicious code detection.

    Webinar Description

    The Bavarian research network ForDaySec is an interdisciplinary research association for improving IT security in everyday digital life. The focus is on the development of technologies and solutions suitable for everyday use, with which the opportunities of digitization can be safely exploited in various areas of life and work. In this talk we report on recent results in the use of IoT devices in security applications.

    Internet of Things (IoT) devices have been reportedly used to spy on guests in hotels or privately rented accommodations in recent years. Such attacks can be mitigated by users, especially those at higher security risk, by detecting such devices, localizing them, and subsequently disabling their intrusive functionality. Our work introduces a system that allows a user without specific technical knowledge not only to detect and physically locate hidden IoT devices but further also to isolate devices that are perceived as threats from the network without physical intervention. For the former, the system provides a visual aid using augmented reality, for the latter we integrate de-authentication attacks on the Wi-Fi network based on the network information collected during device localization. The prototype of the system is implemented as an iOS application, connected to a Raspberry Pi, and evaluated on a set of 18 different test devices. Compared to previous research our system shows comparable or even better results. It discloses devices within 3s with a detection rate of at least 90%, localizes them in 3D space visualized using augmented reality with an approximate accuracy of 0.4m, and isolates 100% of the devices for at least 180s (and potentially longer). 

 

  • PIDS Workshop: Unconventional Lightweight Security for the Internet of Things (Technical Meeting of the German CTSoc Chapter)

    https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/440858

    Date and Time

    • Date: 17 Dec 2024
    • Time: 04:00 PM to 08:00 PM
    • All times are (UTC+01:00) Berlin
     

    Location

    • Hybrid event:
       

      Virtual attendance on Webex

       

      In-person attendance:

      • University of Passau
        Innstraße 43
        Passau 94032,
        Bayern, Germany
        Building: ITZ/IH
        Room Number: SeminarRaum 001
     

    Hosts

    • Germany Section Chapter, CT08
    • PIDS – Passau Institute of Digital Security
     

    Registration

     

    Speaker Biography

     

    Prof. Dr. Stavros G. Stavrinides of Democritus University of Thrace

    Stavros G. Stavrinides (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electronics and the Ph.D. degree in chaotic electronics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He currently serves as a Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics and Electronics with the Physics Department at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 journal and conference papers as well as book chapters, while he edited two books. His research interests include, nonexhaustively, chaotic electronics, and their applications (with emphasis on hardware security), analog and mixed-signal electronic circuits, experimental chaotic synchronization, nonlinear time series analysis, complex networks, physical unclonable functions, and memristors. Prof. Stavrinides has contributed as a researcher in several national (Greek) and international (EU, NATO) funded projects.

    Agenda

    • 16.00 – 17.00 Prof. Dr. Stavros Stavrinides: Keynote Talk on “Unconventional Lightweight Security for the Internet of Things”
    • 17.00 – 18.00 Presentation of abstracts on Consumer Technology topics (10-minute presentations followed by 5-minute Q’n’A sessions)
      • 17.00 – 17.15 Dr. Henrich Pöhls: “State-of-Standards vs. Everyday Digital Life: Cybersecurity of Internet-of-Things Consumer Technology for Domotics (Smart Homes)”
      • 17.15 – 17.30 Hannes Hacker: “Off-Chain Post-Quantum TLS and Smart Contract White-Box Security Testing in Smart Payment Systems”
      • 17.30 – 17.45 Selma Brimah: “An Evaluation of LM35 Temperature Sensors as Physical Unclonable Functions”
      • 17.45 – 18.00 Abdelqader Waleed M. Al-Gailany: “Post-Quantum Secure Communication Framework for LLM-User Interaction Leveraging Kyber-Based Encryption”
    • 18.00 – 19.00 General assembly meeting of the German CTSoc Chapter
    • 19.00 – 20.00 In-person only: Dinner buffet break