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 Contents

High-level Simulation of the Timely Behavior of Intermittent Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Johannes Göpfert, Bernd-Christian Renner (Hamburg University of Technology, TUHH, Institute for
Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems, Germany)

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Secure Checkpointing on Energy-Harvesting Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Prakhar Sah, Matthew Hicks (Virginia Tech)

Enabling Efficient Intermittent Computing on Brand New Microcontrollers via Tracking

Programmable Voltage Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Khakim Akhunov (University of Trento); Eren Yildiz (Ege University); Kasim Sinan Yildirim (University of
Trento)
Run-time Energy Management for Intermittent LoRaWAN Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Sergey Mileiko, Connor Bramwell, Firdaus Ritom (Newcastle University); David De Roure,
Oktay Cetinkaya (University of Oxford); Domenico Balsamo (Newcastle University)

Beyond Broadcasting: Revisiting FM Frequency-band for Providing Connectivity to the Next Billion
Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Rajashekar Reddy Chinthalapani, Manoj Gulati, Ambuj Varshney (National University of Singapore)

EDT+: Energy Consumption Optimization of NB-IoT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Vlad Ionescu (University Colleague Cork); Ian Wassel (University of Cambridge); Utz Roedig (University
College Cork)

A Lora-Based and Maintenance-Free Cattle Monitoring System for Alpine Pastures and Remote
Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Lukas Schulthess, Fabrice Longchamp, Christian Vogt, Michele Magno (ETH Zürich)

Let’s go below - Potential of Undervolting on Low-Power FPGAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Lucas Bublitz (Hamburg University of Technology); Jochen Rust (Hamburg University of Applied
Sciences); Ulf Kulau (Hamburg University of Technology)

EPICURUS: Energy ProvIsioning for the start-up proCedUre of batteRyless, wake-Up

receiver-enabled Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Sayedsepehr Mosavat (University of Duisburg-Essen, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences);
Pedro José Marrón (University of Duisburg-Essen); Matteo Zella (Niederrhein University of Applied
Sciences)
Energy-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Self-Sustainability in Resource-Constrained IoT Devices . . 
Marco Giordano, Silvano Cortesi (ETH Zurich); Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis, Michele Crabolu,
Giovanni Bellusci (Hilti Corporation); Michele Magno (ETH Zurich)

Self-powered RPM Sensor using a Single-Anchor Variable Reluctance Energy Harvester with
Pendulum Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
Ye Xu, Sebastian Bader, Bengt Oelmann (Mid Sweden University)

Intermittent Intelligent Camera with LEO sensor-to-satellite Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Matteo Nardello, Luca Caronti, Davide Brunelli (University of Trento)

Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 