Assess the vision
Assess how ENDs can enable sustainable sensing systems and how 6G, ambient IoT, TinyML, WPT, and sustainable electronics contribute to this vision.
Why EN-IoT?
Next-generation sensing systems increasingly rely on ultra-constrained IoT devices that must operate for long periods without maintenance. In smart environments, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, and industrial monitoring, battery replacement or recharging is often impractical, costly, or environmentally undesirable.
Energy-neutral IoT devices (ENDs), powered by ambient energy, can address this need. Dependable deployment, however, also requires connectivity-aware design, wireless power transfer, event-driven and semantic communication, adaptive networking, and coordination between sensors and infrastructure.
Energy-neutral sensors
Ultra-low-power IoT
Wireless power transfer
Ambient IoT
TinyML
Sustainable electronics
6G connectivity
Workshop objectives
Connect device and infrastructure design
Connect device-level advances with infrastructure requirements for interoperable, scalable, and resilient END deployments.
Shape a shared roadmap
Identify open challenges, collaboration opportunities, and steps for moving energy-neutral sensors toward dependable sensing infrastructures.
Open for low-barrier contributions
Community Contributions Flash Session
Bring a new idea, prototype, measurement setup, deployment challenge, or open problem to the workshop, no full paper needed.
We'll condense the selected contributions into a 20-minute interactive session, grouping them by theme or turning them into short pitches depending on what comes in.
Short abstract
Early idea, recent result, position, or ongoing work relevant to energy-neutral and sustainable IoT.
Demo proposal
Prototype, tool, testbed, platform, measurement method, dataset, or live/recorded demonstrator.
Challenge statement
Open problem, deployment barrier, benchmark need, standardization gap, or unresolved system-level question.
How contributions will be used: Flash Session contributions feed into the live roadmap, help identify concrete collaboration opportunities, and may seed a joint position or roadmap paper among interested participants. They're non-archival and not part of the IEEE proceedings.
Program
The workshop runs as a half-day program with three 50-minute sessions.
Speakers aren't confirmed yet, so the program below lists roles and themes rather than names. We'll add the details as soon as they're locked in.
Session 1 · 50 min
Vision and Foundations: EN-IoT Systems
- Opening words and workshop framing · 5 min
- Keynote presentation · 30 min
- Moderated Q&A and framing discussion · 15 min
Session 2 · 50 min
Enabling Technologies for Energy-Neutral IoT
- Short invited talks with brief Q&A, including academic and industry perspectives · 30 min
- Community Contributions Flash Session · 20 min
Session 3 · 50 min
From Research Results to Community Roadmap
- Panel: “What is still missing for deployable EN-IoT?” · 30 min
- Live roadmap creation identifying open challenges, collaboration opportunities, and follow-up actions · 15 min
- Wrap-up · 5 min
Important dates
Workshop participation requires IEEE SENSORS 2026 registration. Tutorials/workshops are listed by IEEE SENSORS as an additional Sunday registration option.
Who should attend?
The workshop is intended for participants working across sensors, wireless communications, embedded systems, sustainable electronics, and future IoT infrastructures.
Researchers
Sensor systems, IoT, wireless networks, energy harvesting, WPT, and low-power communication.
Early-career participants
PhD students and early-career academics looking for open problems, feedback, and collaborators.
Industry practitioners
Teams working on ultra-low-power devices, embedded intelligence, IoT platforms, and deployments.
Projects and communities
Participants from 5G-Advanced/6G, ambient IoT, sustainability, standardization, and application domains.
Organizers
The workshop is co-organized by researchers active in European IoT and 6G initiatives that address energy-neutral devices, low-power networking, sustainable IoT, and future connectivity.
Onel L. A. López
University of Oulu, Finland
Sustainable wireless systems, energy-neutral IoT, machine-type communications.
Short bio
Associate Professor in sustainable wireless communications engineering at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu. His research interests include sustainable IoT, wireless connectivity, machine-type communications, and cellular-enabled positioning systems.
Konstantin Mikhaylov
University of Oulu, Finland
Convergent IoT communications, wireless connectivity, MTC systems design.
Short bio
Associate Professor for Convergent IoT Communications at the University of Oulu and 6G Flagship. His work covers IoT wireless connectivity, systems design, applications, network architectures, and MTC connectivity.
Ritesh Kumar Singh
University of Antwerp – imec, Belgium
AI-driven sustainable IoT, energy harvesting, low-power and energy-aware solutions.
Short bio
Principal Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at IDLab, University of Antwerp–imec, where he leads low-power research activities focusing on AI-driven sustainable IoT, energy harvesting, and energy-aware solutions.
Jeroen Famaey
University of Antwerp – imec, Belgium
Wireless network optimization, low-power and energy-neutral 6G devices.
Short bio
Associate Research Professor at the University of Antwerp and imec. His research focuses on performance modelling and optimization of wireless communications and network protocols, with leading roles in national and European 6G initiatives.
Andrea Ortiz
TU Wien, Austria
Risk-aware, resource-efficient algorithms for next-generation wireless systems.
Short bio
Assistant Professor at TU Wien and leader of the ASUCAR Vienna Research Group. Her research combines reinforcement learning, game theory, and numerical optimization for risk-aware and resource-efficient next-generation wireless systems.
Connected initiatives
EN-IoT 2026 builds on complementary activities from the workshop chairs and their project networks.
Previous EN-IoT editions
EN-IoT 2024 · Paris
First edition, co-located with 6GNet 2024.
EN-IoT 2025 · Leuven
Second edition, co-located with EWSN 2025.