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.
September 2017
The IoT Lab participates to the Notte dei ricercatori (Researchers’ Night) of the University of Parma, on September 29th. This event, promoted by the European Union at a European level, aims at stimulating people (especially young people) to approach the academic research world. The IoT Lab will present a few of its activity. Come and visit us.
July 2017
Prof. Ferrari gives the invited speech “The importance of data collection for an ad-hoc personalized analysis: the experience of the University of Parma on wearable-based monitoring of Parkinson patients” at the Life Science Data Congress 2017, Milan, Italy. In the presentation, Prof. Ferrari outlines the main results obtained by IoT Lab in collaboration with Istituto Auxologico Italiano, coordinated by Prof. Alessandro Mauro.
July 2017
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 July 2017. He collaborates with us on wireless sensor networking.
June 2017
Dr. Sumit Kundu, Full Professor at the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, India, visits the IoT Lab in June 2017. He collaborates with us on the design of future integrated cellular-IoT systems.