Presentation title

Politecnico di Bari Laboratories involved in Embedded Systems Design

Authors

Daniela De Venuto, Giovanni Mezzina, Michele Ruta, Eugenio Di Sciascio

Institution(s)

Politecnico di Bari

Presentation type

Presentation of a research group from one or more scientific institutions

Abstract

The DEIS Lab is a regional living laboratory, founded by numerous regional, national and european projects based in Politecnico di Bari. The DEIS Lab has 1 professor, whose scientific interests concern sensors and smart detectors, focusing on read-out circuits. Prof. Daniela De Venuto has about 150 scientific publications and an industrial property title (Method for Testing Analog-to-Digital Converters, Reyneri L., De Venuto D.). The research team consists of 2 research assistants, whose interests focus on the realization of low cost algorithms for Brain Computer Interface and m-Health diagnostics, real-time signal processing by FPGA. Also, 1 PhD student interested in IC Design, FPGA programming, bio-electronics and flexible electronics and 1 lab technician, for the multifunctional lab management.

The research team has been involved, in the last three years and continues to play a primary role, in regional and national projects such as: DIABESITY (EMG-FPGA diagnostic indexes extraction), PERSON (EEG-based diagnostic algorithms), INNOVALAB (Prevention of fall by EEG-EMG combined analysis), CESAR RIDITT (WSN for shelf life of perishables) and RES NOVAE. The DEIS Lab collaborates continuously with world-class universities and research centers such as: the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Glasgow, the EPFL, the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, INFN, Policlinico di Bari and industry agencies such as: Confindustria, Confagricoltura, DARePuglia , Sitael and Exprivia Healthcare IT.

The SisInfLab has been researching since 2003 and has the presence of university professors, researchers, research fellowships, PhD students, and research collaborators. In recent years, some of SisInfLab's members have been awarded prizes at various prestigious international conferences including I-SEMANTICS 2012 (Kristiansand, Norway) and IOT360 Hackathon (2014 Rome). The main research topics of the SisInfLab, related to this project initiative, will reflect the adoption of the most important new technologies in the literature in the field of monitoring and analysis methods and validation of collected data. In this case, the research unit will be responsible for identifying appropriate instruments, algorithms and data structures capable of extracting contextual information from the complex environment-building territory, properly structured by introducing pervasive and non intrusive wireless sensor networks. Furthermore, it will be responsible to develop semi-automatic extraction, annotation and validation of collected information. The final objective is decision support through inferences Algorithms, capable of automatically inferring new implicit information from monitoring data. Research is mainly concerned with the following topics: Knowledge representation and applications; Semantic Web; Ubiquitous computing; Mobile Semantic Grids; Recommender Systems and Linked Open Data.

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