June 2015

Federico Parisi, PhD student at the WASN Lab, wins the hackaton (teaming up with a Researcher from MIT Lincoln Laboratory) organized at the 12th Annual Body Sensor Networks Conference (BSN 2015), Boston, MA, USA.

May 2015

Prof. Ferrari is an invited Panel Member at the MobiSys 2015: PhD Forum, held at the 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2015), Florence, Italy.

May 2015

The WASN Lab (Prof. Ferrari, Dr. Picone, Dr. Cirani) co-organizes (jointly with: King’s College London, UK; Politecnico di Bari, Italy; and Inria, France) the 1st International Workshop on IoT challenges in Mobile and Industrial Systems (IoT-Sys 2015), held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2015), Florence, Italy.

April 2015

The paper “A swarm intelligent approach to 3D distance-based indoor localization,” by S. Monica and G. Ferrari, receives the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications15), Track on International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications15), held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

March 2015

Pietro Gonizzi receives his PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “Connect Sensor Networks to the Internet of Things.” Seventh PhD graduate of WASN Lab.

March 2015

Stefania Monica receives her PhD in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, with the thesis “UWB Technology for Indoor Localization: from Theory to Practice.” Sixth PhD graduate of WASN Lab.

December 2014

Prof. G. Ferrari gives an invited talk, at the Research Center of Texas Instruments in Dallas, TX, USA, entitled: “Pushing IP into Smart Objects: Challenges and Solutions.”

September 2014

The paper “Lightweight Multicast Forwarding for Service Discovery in Low-power IoT Networks,” co-authored by Mattia Antonini, Simone Cirani, Gianluigi Ferrari, Paolo Medagliani, Marco Picone and Luca Veltri, receive the Best Conference Paper Award (Symposium on RFID Technologies and Internet of Things) at IEEE 22st International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2014), Split (Croatia), September 17-19, 2014 , 2014.

June 2014

The paper “Linking UPDRS scores and kinematic variables in the leg agility task of Parkinsonians,” co-authored by Matteo Giuberti and Gianluigi Ferrari, together with collaborators from Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Telecom Italia, and Politecnico di Milano, receives the Best Runner-up Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2014), Zurich, Switzerland.

April 2014

The WASN Lab has been accepted as exhibitor at 23rd European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2014) , held in Bologna, Italy, with a project entitled ‘Real-time monitoring of dynamic Internet of Things environments using Smart Objects’.