Supervised Theses

  • Implementation and Evaluation of an SPI Module in Rust/C++ for STM32 (Bachelor, February 2020)
  • Implementation and Evaluation of several update strategies for a smart home control system on Android (Bachelor, March 2020)
  • Visualization of impacts of several updates in smart homes. (Bachelor, May 2020)
  • Development of a Framework for text extraction and classification of PDF documents based on section length (Bachelor, September 2020)
  • Development of an Augmented Reality App for iOS-devices to operate IoT devices (Bachelor, December 2020)
  • EyeReach: Control and Interconnection of Smart Home Devices through Image Recognition (Master, May 2021)
  • Implementation and Evaluation of a Recommnedation Application for interoperable Smart Home Devices (Master, May 2021)
  • Development and evaluation of a cross-platform smart home device (Bachelor, September 2021)
  • Data science driven ingredient substitution in digital recipes (Bachelor, September 2021)
  • Implementation and Evaluation of an Algorithm for dependency-preserving Smart Home Updates (Bachelor, September 2021)
  • Development of a Modular Smart Device to explore the capabilities of segregating “Smart” and “Device” functionalities (Master, March 2022)
  • Development and Evaluation of an AI-based cooking-recipe generation (Master, April 2022)
  • Rewrite it in Rust: Overleaf (Bachelor, February 2022)
  • ChessDuino: Development of a chess computer for Arduino (Bachelor, February 2022)
  • Cooking-recipe construction using network analysis (Bachelor, February 2022)
  • Retrofit Smartness: Development of a plug-and-play solution for retrofittable smart features (Bachelor, October 2022)
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Longevity Digital Twins in the Context of Smart Homes (Master, March 2023)
  • A Web of Things compliant Smart Home Simulation (Bachelor, Juli 2023)
  • Design and Prototyping a wireless magnet-free window sensor for smart home applications (Master, August 2023)
  • Development of an adaptive control algorithm for smart home device (Master, September 2023)
  • FooSH: Ein Framework für ergebnisorientierte Smart Homes (Master, Dezember 2023)

Topics for Theses

In our research we are concerned with the longevity of smart homes. When several devices are updated, it is possible that certain services or automations no longer function. This can happen, if the public interface, that smart homes use to communicate with each other, is changed through software updates. Speficially, we are looking into how devices and services in a smart home can be standardized, to achieve clarity what for example a light bulb is and what functions it can offer. Furthermore, we explore options how to plan the update process through such a standardization, to find the best suited update configuration in the big update space. If you are interested in any of these problems, write me a mail and we can think of a topic that fits into my research area and your skills/interests.

Topics for theses that don’t regard my research

There are some topics i am generally interested in, but that don’t fit my general research direction of “Smart Homes”. If one of these topics interests you, feel free to write me.

  • Semantic DNS: Device discovery based on tangible properties
  • Digital Twins of IoT Devices
  • Symbolic Regression
  • Genetic Algorithms

Academic Services

Organizer

Publicity Chair

  • International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things ( PerIoT ) 2021 (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2021)
  • IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2021
  • International Workshop on Internet of Things Pervasive Real-World Deployments (IoT-PROD) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2022)

TPC | Reviewer

  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference ( CCNC25)
  • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference ( CCNC24)
  • Elsevier Computer Communications Journal ( COMCOM 2023)
  • IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2023
  • Elsevier Computer Communications Journal ( COMCOM 2022)
  • IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2022
  • IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things ( GCAIoT) 2021
  • International Workshop on Internet of Things Pervasive Real-World Deployments (IoT-PROD) (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2022)

Session Chair

  • IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Demo Session ( PerCom) 2022

Videos of Presentations

Honors

Talks

  • Towards Longevity of Smart Homes, PerIoT 2020: The Fourth International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things, March 27, 2020
  • Longevity of Smart Homes (Poster), PerCom, Texas, USA, March 23, 2020
  • Requirements and Mechanisms of Smart Home Updates, SENSYBLE 2020 3rd workshop on Smart Systems for Better Living Environments, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 1, 2020
  • An Algorithm for Dependency-Preserving Smart Home Updates, PerIoT 2021: The Fifth International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things, March 26, 2021
  • A Digital-Twin Based Architecture for Software Longevity in Smart Homes: 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022), July 11, 2023
  • How to Change a Light Bulb in Your Smart Home: A Digital-Twin Based Approach, PDT 2023: First Workshop on Pervasive Digital Twins, March 17, 2023
  • Towards Predicting the Perceived Brightness in a Smart Home Through Symbolic Regression, PerCom WiP, March 13, 2024

Projects

Publications (14)

2024 (1)
  • Zdankin, Peter and Matkovic, Viktor and Schiele, Gregor and Weis, Torben
    Towards Predicting the Perceived Brightness in a Smart Home Through Symbolic Regression
    In: 22nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications WiP(PerCom 2024)
    DOI: TBD

2023 (1)
  • Zdankin, Peter and Picone, Marco and Schaffeld, Matthias and Mamei, Marco and Weis, Torben
    How to Change a Light Bulb in Your Smart Home: A Digital-Twin Based Approach
    In: PDT 2023: First Workshop on Pervasive Digital Twins
    DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150349

2022 (2)
  • Peltonen, Ella and Mohan, Nitinder and Zdankin, Peter and Shreedhar, Tanya and Nguyen, Tri and Bayhan, Suzan and Crowcroft, Jon and Kangasharju, Jussi and Nicklas, Daniela
    Perspectives on Negative Research Results in Pervasive Computing
    In: TBD
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.05708
  • Zdankin, Peter and Picone, Marco and Mamei, Marco and Weis, Torben
    A Digital-Twin Based Architecture for Software Longevity in Smart Homes
    In: 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022)
    DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS54860.2022.00070

2021 (2)
  • Carl, Oskar and Zdankin, Peter and Schaffeld, Matthias and Matkovic, Viktor and Yu, Yang and Elbers, Timo and Weis, Torben
    Persistent Streams: The Internet With Ephemeral Storage
    In: Tagungsband des FG-BS Herbsttreffens 2021
    DOI: 10.18420/fgbs2021h-01
  • Zdankin, Peter and Schaffeld, Matthias and Carl, Oskar and Waltereit, Marian and Weis, Torben
    An Algorithm for Dependency-Preserving Smart Home Updates
    In: PerIoT 2021: 5th International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT 2021)
    DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9431040

2020 (7)
  • Matkovic, Viktor and Waltereit, Marian and Zdankin, Peter and Weis, Torben
    Towards Bike Type and E-Scooter Classification With Smartphone Sensors
    In: 17th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, ACM
  • Waltereit, Marian and Uphoff, Maximilian and Zdankin, Peter and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
    A Digital Forensic Approach for Optimizing the Investigation of Hit-And-Run Accidents
    In: 11th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime, Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68734-2_11
  • Zdankin, Peter and Carl, Oskar and Waltereit, Marian and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
    Requirements and Mechanisms for Smart Home Updates
    In: SENSYBLE 2020, 2nd workshop on Smart Systems for Better Living Environments
    DOI: 10.18420/inf2020_91
  • Weis, Torben and Zdankin, Peter and Carl, Oskar and Waltereit, Marian
    Group-based Memory Management in Fyr
    In: Tagungsband des FG-BS Herbsttreffens 2020
    DOI: 10.18420/fgbs2020h-02
  • Waltereit, Marian and Zdankin, Peter and Matkovic, Viktor and Uphoff, Maximilian and Weis, Torben
    Online Driving Behavior Scoring using Wheel Speeds
    In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - Volume 1: VEHITS,
    DOI: 10.5220/0009215604170424
  • Zdankin, Peter and Waltereit, Marian and Matkovic, Viktor and Weis, Torben
    Towards Longevity of Smart Home Systems
    In: PerIoT 2020: 4th International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT 2020)
    DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops48775.2020.9156165
  • Zdankin, Peter and Weis, Torben
    Longevity of Smart Homes
    In: PerCom PhD Forum 2020: 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PhD Forum (PerCom PhD Forum 2020)
    DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops48775.2020.9156155

2019 (1)
  • Matkovic, Viktor and Waltereit, Marian and Zdankin, Peter and Uphoff, Maximilian and Weis, Torben
    Bike type identification using smartphone sensors
    In: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
    DOI: 10.1145/3341162.3343763

Teaching

SoSe 2024

Theses

WiSe 23/24

SoSe 2023

WiSe 22/23

SoSe 2022

WiSe 21/22

SoSe 2021

WiSe 20/21

SoSe 2020

WiSe 19/20

Peter Zdankin

Research Assistant

Contact

Postal address

  • Building BC, Room 312
  • Bismarckstr. 90 47057 Duisburg, Germany

Consultation hour

By appointment

Brief CV

since 01/2021

IoT Prototyping/Consulting, self-employed

since 03/2022

Alt. Member Doctoral Committee, University of Duisburg-Essen

since 06/2019

Research and teaching associate, University of Duisburg-Essen

05/2019

Master of Science in Applied Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen

06/2017 - 05/2019

Research assistant, Embedded Systems Group, University of Duisburg-Essen

08/2016

Bachelor of Science in Applied Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen

04/2015 - 07/2018

Student Tutor in Advanced Programming Techniques, Intelligent Systems Group, University of Duisburg-Essen

10/2014 - 02/2015

Student Tutor in Logic, Universität Duisburg-Essen

since 02/2014

Member of Student Council in Applied Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen

10/2013 - 05/2019

Study of Applied Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen