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.

May 2018

N. Strozzi and G. Ferrari participate to the 7th meeting of the NATO Research Task Group HFM–260 “Enhancing Warfighter Effectiveness with Wearable Bio Sensors and Physiologicol Models” in Portsmouth, UK. Attendees from USA, Canada, UK, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy come together for a concept demonstration. IoT Lab presented a live demo on hybrid GPS-inertial multiple person tracking.

April 2018

Prof. Ferrari and Prof. Agostino Gambarotta (University of Parma) coordinate a panel on “Smart Energy – Environment & Grid – Infrastructure” at Parma Futuro Smart: progettare città smart e resilienti per tutti – Scenari per Parma Futuro Smart al 2030,” Officine ON/OFF, Parma, Italy. In the panel, attendees discuss on the most relevant trends for Parma in a smart future, in the context of smart energy distribution and IoT-based monitoring.

December 2017

Prof. Ferrari gives the invited speech “Parma 2030: inclusiva, attrattiva e sostenibile” at the meeting Parma Smart Benchmarking: equilibrio, inclusione, sostenibilità e attrattività, organized by FPA
and the Municipality of Parma in Palazzo del Governatore, Parma.
In his speech, Prof. Ferrari discusses the impact of IoT (multiple radio technologies, inertial navigation) and future telecommunications technologies (5G) on the development of smart cities.
See also a final interview.