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This was led by Prof. Lyn Pemberton (University of Brighton,
United Kingdom) and Sanaz Fallakhair (University of Portsmouth,
United Kingdom). It included a
discussion on the subject after the
presentation. Approximately 50
people attended.
One of the first meetings of the
Chapter was in February 2012.
This was a day of seminars and Celso Kurashima.
Gustavo Moreira Calixto.
discussions regarding the policy for
digital TV implementation. It was
Society, the IEEE Power & Energy Socititled "Public Policy and Technologies for
ety, the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Digital Television" and was a very sucSociety, and the IEEE Electron Devices
cessful meeting.
Society. The Section Executive CommitBrazil is a large and diverse country.
tee meets once a month, where Section
The South Brazil Section of the IEEE is
and Chapter chairs engage in brainstormbased in the technological/industrial
ing and discussions on the experiences of
heartland of São Paolo. The CE Society
running seminars and workshops.
Chapter is an active member of the SecThe focus of the Chapter is to protion, which has 15 Society Chapters and
mote CE area activities around the state
two Council Chapters, including those
of São Paulo and South Brazil. A possible
from the IEEE Computer Society, the
strategy being considered is to expand
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
this Chapter to a joint Chapter, including
Society, the IEEE Industry Applications

all sections inside Brazil (the Rio
de Janeiro, Bahia, Minas Gerais,
and Brasilia Sections) as there are
not enough local members in these
areas to form separate Chapters.
The year 2015 will be exciting
for the South Brazil Chapter. The
Brazilian Research Funding Agency has provided support for a
Latin American Symposium on
CE in November 2015. They are
organizing the call for papers, and,
of course, the support of all members of the CE Society is welcome. This
will be the first opportunity to promote
CE Society activities in Latin America.
The Chapter also plans to improve its
visibility, providing more seminars,
courses, and hands-on sessions.
For more information on the South
Brazil Chapter or if you are interested in
helping to promote its activities, please
contact Gustavo Moreira at Calixtocalixto@
ieee.org.
-Robin Bradbeer

One-Day Workshop
at CE Malaysia Chapter
Embedded systems and Internet of Things.

he IEEE Consumer Electronics
(CE) Society Malaysia Chapter had
a positive start for 2015. The
Malaysia Chapter planned several
activities for this year, with a special focus
on the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT
will be an open network in which selforganized objects are interoperable and
able to act independently depending on
the context. Embedded systems, as IoT
core components, will have an important

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role in this concept. These technologies
will underlie relevant applications for CE
and related areas.
Realizing the importance of this topic,
the Malaysia Chapter organized a oneday workshop, "Embedded Systems and
Internet of Things (IoT)," in association
with the Faculty of Computer Science
and Information Technology (FSKTM),
Universiti Putra Malaysia, on 12 March
2014. The workshop was organized with
an objective to introduce embedded systems as an enabler for consumer-centric
IoT (CCIoT) projects. The idea for initiating the CCIoT workshop had

its genesis in conversations among CE
Society members. This special workshop
was part of the Malaysia Chapter's initiative to encourage students to participate
in the upcoming CCIoT Hackathon that
will take place by the end of this year.
During the workshop, participants
focused on bespoke embedded system
projects that demonstrate various IoT
services for CE. The participants were
encouraged to design, innovate, and
improve their bespoke IoT projects using
the available tools. During the workshop,
the participants were exposed to various
nuances of the theory as well as the

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