FEATURED CONFERENCE

• IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium

  ISTANBUL; 25–29 APRIL

  TOPICS: Smart homes, home networking, smart cities, the smart grid, the Internet of Things, social networks, software-defined networking, network-functions virtualization, ad hoc networks, vehicular networks, wireless sensors, and data center management.

  SPONSORS: IEEE Communications Society and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

• IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

  LAS VEGAS; 9–12 JANUARY

  TOPICS: Home networking systems, multimedia systems, social networking, information and communication software services, cloud computing, crowdsourcing, social media, and data integration and analytics.

  SPONSOR: IEEE Communications Society

• IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics

  LAS VEGAS; 9–12 JANUARY

  TOPICS: Smart-home and home-automation technologies, remote-care and real-time home-monitoring systems, smart grid, mobile devices, wearables, energy harvesting, sensors, computer vision, cloud computing, virtual and augmented reality, social gaming, and location-based services.

  SPONSOR: IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

• International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems

  VIENNA; 11–14 APRIL

  TOPICS: Sensor networks for smart homes, smart building automation, smart distribution systems for energy and water, medical-assistive technology, social networks, robotics, signal processing, machine learning, and cloud computing.

  SPONSORS: IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery

• Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies

  MINNEAPOLIS; 13–16 JUNE

  TOPICS: Advances in smart buildings and industrial facilities, power distribution systems, vehicle-to-grid communication systems, smart grid analytics, microgrids, and cybersecurity.

  SPONSORS: IEEE Power & Energy Society

• International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid

  PRAGUE; 27–29 JUNE

  TOPICS: Control systems and sensor technologies for smart buildings, smart-home control and automation, intelligent electric-power systems, green communication networks, and RFID systems.

  SPONSORS: IEEE Czechoslovakia Section

This article originally appeared in print as “Conferences on Smart-Home Technologies.”

This article is part of our December 2015 special report on smart homes.