March 2016

Muhammad Asim receives his PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “Advanced Receivers for Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems.” Eighth PhD graduate of WASN Lab.

December 2015

Prof. Ferrari gives the invited talk “Cognitive Wireless Networking: Exploiting
Sensing Correlation and Position Information” at the Huawei Technologies’ Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab in Paris. The talk is based on joint work with Andrea Abrardo (University of Siena) and Marco Martalò (University of Parma).

November 2015

The activities of WASN Lab in the context of IoT and Smart Cities are featured in the “Speciale SMART CITY: Realtà Eccellenti” of the November 12, 2015 issue of Il Sole 24 Ore, one of the major Italian economic newspapers. The featured article is titled “Smart City e Internet delle Cose: Un matrimonio ben riuscito all’Università di Parma.”

November 2015

The paper “BSN-based kinematic characterization and comparative outlook of UPDRS scoring in leg agility, sit-to-stand, and gait tasks in Parkinson’s disease,” co-authored by WASN Lab members F. Parisi and and G. Ferrari is selected for the Special Section “Enabling Technologies for Parkinson’s Disease Management” of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1777-1793, Nov. 2015. DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2015.2472640).

November 2015

WASNLab team members Federico Parisi, Luca Davoli, and Mattia Antonini participate to
the 2015 Unicredit Appathon (see also twitter) as the group “Headshakers,” presenting a novel APP for money transactions based on hand shaking using smartwatches.

October 2015

Prof. Ferrari gives the invited talk “Smart Cities e Internet of Things: un matrimonio ben riuscito” (Smart Cities and Internet of Things: a successful marriage) at the Workshop Energie Rinnovabili e Smart City: dalla Teoria alle Buone Pratiche (“Renewable Energies and Smart City: from Theory to Good Practices”), organized by the Association “Officina delle Idee” and held in Lerici (La Spezia), October 2015.

September 2015

Prof. Ferrari gives the invited talk “Dalle reti di sensori all’Internet of Things: il florovivaismo va sul web” (From sensor networks to IoT: floriculture goes on the web) at the Workshop “nnovazione e Tecnologie Informatiche per il florovivaismo e l’agricoltura” (“Innovation and computer science technologies for floriculture and agricolture”), held in conjunction with International Floriculture & Gardening Trade Show (FLORMART 2015), Padova, September 2015. The article
“L’innovazione nel florovivaismo tra sostenibilità e internet delle cose” (authored by R. Fresco and G. Ferrari) is published on the November issue of Il floricultore.

September 2015

The paper “Design and deployment of an IoT application-oriented testbed,” authored by WASN Lab members (L. Belli, S. Cirani, L. Davoli, A. Gorrieri, M. Mancin, M. Picone, and G. Ferrari) graces the cover of the September 2015 issue of IEEE Computer, Special Issue “Activating the Internet of things” (vol. 48, no. 8, September 2015, pp. 32-40. DOI:10.1109/MC.2015.253).

July 2015

Prof. Ferrari is nominated, by the Italian Ministry of Defense, as the only Italian representative (Technical Team Member) in the NATO Research Task Group HFM–260 “Enhancing Warfighter Effectiveness with Wearable Bio Sensors and Physiologicol Models,” in the period 2015-2018.

June 2015

The WASN Lab is granted, as a donation by Texas Instruments, 50 Internet of Things (IoT) nodes with various communication capabilities. They will be integrated in the WASNLab IoT testbed.