Marc Durvaux
Marc spent his career in the R&D for telecommunication and space systems (mobile networks, optical communications, xDSL...) while working for major companies such as Alcatel and Philips. He held different R&D management positions and retired as CTO of Thales-Alenia Space Belgium. Since them, he is very busy as a volunteer but keeps some free time to tinker with sensors, signal processing and IoT. He is also an expert for EU's European Innovation Council. Marc is graduated in physics from UCLouvain and holds a PhD in electronics and telecommunication from INP Grenoble. He is author or co-author of several patents.
Session
We are surrounded, in our daily life, with devices that have a strong link with cloud infrastructure. Those devices, while still completely operational, can become a useless piece of hardware if the vendor stop the infrastructure for any reason.
This aims at discussing how to give a second life to such devices using the practical use case of the EV chargers of the Belgian company PowerDale which went on bankrupt in July 2023.
We will discuss the successes and failures of our journey, how a community of enthusiasts manages to build workarounds and what could be our community contribution.