Projects

Regional Project S3HM: Savuto Structural Smart Health Monitoring. Funded by Regione Calabria

From 2020 to 2021

  • Project Title: S3HM

  • Research Activity title: Design of a continuous monitoring system to evaluate the health status of building.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of a continuous monitoring system able to evaluate the health status of old building. The system needs to be integrated with LORA technologies to support long range and low cost communication for IoT sensors distributed inside building.

National Project PON COGITO: A COGnItive dynamic sysTem to allOw buildings to learn and adapt. Funded by Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico

From 2018 to 2021

  • Project Title: COGITO

  • Research Activity title: Design of a cooperative multi-camera systems to detect anomalous activities.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of an innovative cooperative multi-camera systems to track users and detect anomaly situations applying edge computing.

National Project PON ComeSto: Community Energy Storage. Funded by Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico

From 2018 to 2021

  • Project Title: ComeSto

  • Research Activity title: Analysis of security threats in novel smart grid systems and design of security features in a community energy storage architecture.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Study and design of security features inside a community energy storage that manage energy flows between homes in an energy District. Design of a multi-technology electronic board able to collect data coming from heterogeneous energy storage systems.

National Project PON COGITO: A COGnItive dynamic sysTem to allOw buildings to learn and adapt. Funded by Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico

From 2018 to 2021

  • Project Title: COGITO

  • Research Activity title: Design of a cooperative multi-camera systems to detect anomalous activities.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of an innovative cooperative multi-camera systems to track users and detect anomaly situations applying edge computing.

Regional Project POR: Glamour: Green Learning and Adaptive Multi-interface iOt enabled devices throUgh social inteRactions. Funded by Regione Calabria

From 2018 to 2020

  • Project Title: GLAMOUR

  • Research Activity title: Design of an integrated systems involving Cloud of Things and IoT devices to reduce energy consumptions in smart building.

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Floriano De Rango, DIMES Dept., University of Calabria.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of an integrated platform and IoT devices able to reduce energy wastage inside home and building. The system needs to balance the energy saving with the comfort perception.

National Project: Rete d’Argento founded by Fondazione con il SUD

From 2015 to 2016

  • Project Title: Rete d’argento

  • Research Activity title: Designing of a health care IoT device to track the movement and hearth beat of old people

  • Local Coordinator: Floriano De Rango, DIMES Dept., University of Calabria.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of an innovative Iot device to track old people at home to detect falls and to monitor heart beat in order to advice medicals about some risk situations.

Regional Project: Smartel funded by Regione Calabria and Europe

From 2014 to 2015

  • Project Title: SMARTEL

  • Research Activity title: Designing of a RFID systems to track cargo and mobile operators in the port area of Gioia Tauro (in Calabria).

  • Local Coordinator: Floriano De Rango, DIMES Dept., University of Calabria.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of a smart RFID systems integrated with additional wireless connectivity to track cargo and mobile operators during operations and movement in the port area of Gioia Tauro.The system need to be robust getting advantage also of other wireless technology able to support self organization and detect possible incident of the terrestrial operators.

National Project: DOMUS Energia funded by Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico

From 2013 to 2016

  • Project Title: DOMUS Energy

  • Research Activity title: Designing of an integrated systems to monitor and manage energy in a smart grid context (Smart District).

  • Local Coordinator: Floriano De Rango, DIMES Dept., University of Calabria.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of a multi-technology gateway able to interoperate with different renewable energy sources and able to support different communication standard related to the building automation context.

National Project: DOMUS Sicurezza funded by Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico

From 2013 to 2016

  • Project Title: DOMUS Security

  • Research Activity title: Designing of an integrated systems to monitor and detect anomaly situations inside Building.

  • Local Coordinator: Floriano De Rango, DIMES Dept., University of Calabria.

  • Brief Research Activity Description: Design of heterogeneous systems based on BLE beacon, cameras and movement sensors to track users inside Building in order to support them in dangerous situations providing customized alerting.

AUTOmobile Logistic MAnagement (AUTOMA) – CONCLUDED

  • Brief Research Activity Description: This system, using the opportunities coming from IT technologies and telecommunications,  allow reaching an optimization in the management processes of the automobile distribution flows in the port of Gioia Tauro.
  • Research Fields: automated interchange management, optimization and image processing for best use of the interchange, improvement of the loading and unloading procedures of automobiles and automatic verification of damage; tracking and localization through adoption of RF systems for automatic identification of the automobiles and relative automatic methods of data acquisition; workflow management for evolved services. See More…

logistic PROcess Management and Intelligence System (PROMIS)  – CONCLUDED

  • Brief Research Activity Description: The main goal of this project has been the development of an innovative system that led to an optimization of the management process of the maritime terminals, based on a vision directed at the integrated logistic processes that take place within the great port hubs connected to intermodal transportation networks.
  • Research Fields: Integrated planning of ship docking, container loading and unloading and interchange management; revisitation/integration of the multiple study models of these present in literature and adjustment of the same to the conditions of tangible operativity of the port of Gioia Tauro, models for intermodal management and medium-long term strategies, routing management of the means used for interchange handling, information techniques and methodologies supporting logistic processes, information techniques and methodologies supporting decision processes, innovative software architectures. See More…

Innovative Contact management based On novel integrated wireless Network Technologies and Crm Tools (I-CONTACT) – CONCLUDED

  • Brief Research Activity Description:The industrial research project regards the creation of an advanced wired and wireless network infrastructure, endowed by services for multimedia support and advanced management of contents for telework in different geographical zones of the covered areas.logo
  • Research Fields: wide-band wireless access, distributed self-organized systems, QoS, Voice over IP (VoIP), video on demand (IPTV) See More…

National Project funded by AERSAT spa

From 2005 to 2006

  • Project Title: Design of user terminals in Ka band (PROTEUS).aersat
  • Research Activity: Study on the antennas on user terminals, multi-mode modem and switching functionalities between regenerative and bent-pipe satellite.

 

Joint project between UNICAL and Compaq S.R.L. (Milan)

From 2001 to 2002download

  • Project objective: designing and development of a multi-channel adaptive Web access to the informative system of the UNICAL. In particular the development of techniques on user terminals COMPAQ iPAQ and informative system of teaching, on the basis of the available terminal, its visualising capacity and user access authorization.

European Project funded by ESA (European Space Agency)

From 2000 to 2001

  • Project Title: EuroSkyWay Artes 3 Phase IIEuropean Space Agency news conference
  • Research Activity title: Ka-Band GEO System Technology and Demonstrator, Phase II
  • Coordinator: Alenia Space, Rome, Italy.
  • Brief Research Activity Description: This activity is the prosecution of the phase I of the same Project and in particular with reference to the designing of traffic management techniques at Satellite terminals, definition of MAC protocols, proposal of novel CAC/TRM strategies under real traffic conditions.

National Project (PRIN)

From 2000 to 2001

  • Program Title: CDMA for Broadband Radiomobile Systems with Terrestrial-Satellite integration.prin
  • Research Title: Adaptive Quality of Service (QoS) Guarantees under heterogeneous traffic (Mono e Multimedia) in Broadband Systems integrated with Terrestrial-Satellite Networks.
  • Research Activity: (1) ad-hoc techniques for the traffic and mobility management (intra-handover and inter-segments handover); (2) definition of qualitative parameters based on the idea of adaptive QoS (soft-QoS); (3) integration of IP traffic in a system integrated with the satellite access.

 

PROTEUS Project:

  • L.Perrotta,M.Tropea, F.De Rango, S.Marano, “Preliminary Study of Antenna(WP 1411)”.
  • F.Veltri, M.Tropea, F.De Rango, S.Marano, ” Preliminary Study of Multi-mode modem (WP 1413)”.
  • M.Tropea, F.Veltri, F.De Rango, A.F.Santamaria, S.Marano, “Definition of the Simulator (WP 1431)”.
  • F.Veltri, A.F.Santamaria, M.Tropea, F.De Rango, S.Marano, “Designing and Implementation of Simulative Environment (WP 1432)”.