September 2018
Mohamed Sandeli, Assistant Professor Class A and PhD Candidate at the Department of Software Technologies and Information Systems, Faculty of New Technologies of Information and Communication, University Abdelhamid Mehri – Constantine 2, visits the IoT Lab in September-October 2018. This visit is a follow-up of his previous visit on July 2017 to continue collaborating on positioning in wireless sensor networking.
September 2018
Prof. Ferrari participates to the 5G Infrastructure Roundtable 2018 organized by International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (iCPS) in Brussels, Belgium.
September 2018
Prof. Ferrari participates as keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems and IoT (CPSIOT 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, with the speech “Inertial Signal Processing for CPS.”
September 2018
G. Ferrari and A. Cilfone participate to the kick-off meeting of the European project Aggregate Farming in the Cloud (AFarCloud), Call H2020-ECSEL- 2017-2-RIA-two-stage, project ID 783221. The kick-off was held at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in Madrid, Spain. The project involves 60 partners, is coordinated by UPM, and the total project cost is over 28 M€. See the also the news in the University of Parma website.
August 2018
Prof. Ferrari participates as keynote speaker at the 6th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2018), Kenting, Taiwan, with the speech “Inertial Signal Processing for IoT Applications.” Attendees and keynote speakers.
July 2018
Antonio Cilfone, PhD student at the IoTLab, visited the Drakkar group of the LIG Laboratory of Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble, France), led by Prof. Andrzej Duda, for a month to collaborate on LoRa-based networks.
June 2018
Prof. Ferrari coordinates a panel on “IoT and Sensors” at the meeting INDUSTRY 4.0: strumenti operativi, tecnologie e servizi di supporto per le imprese organized by Unione Parmense degli Industriali, Parma, Italy. This event is organized in the context of the Confidustria initiative INDUSTRY 4.0: #Preparati al futuro.
May 2018
The paper “Monitoring infants by automatic video processing: a unified approach,” co-authored by L. Cattani, D. Alinovi, G. Ferrari, R. Raheli, E. Pavlidis, C. Spagnoli, F. Pisani and
published in Elsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine (vol. 80, 1 January 2017, pp. 158-165. DOI:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.11.010) received the Honors status. The award is assigned to the top 9% of over 300 papers published in 2017.
May 2018
Prof. Ferrari co-authors an online article on Agenda Digitale: “Smart City Parma, metabolismo e sostenibilità: il viaggio verso il 2030.” In this article (pdf version), we discuss about Parma as a smart city, highlighting its metabolic and sustainable aspects. This article follows the meeting “Parma Smart Benchmarking” held in December 2017.