I received my electronic engineering degree from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1991. I am a senior researcher at the ISTI-CNR institute in Pisa, Italy, where I have worked since 1989 as a member of the Wireless Networking group.
I am Founding Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN).
My current scientific interest is focused on IoT and indoor localisation. I organised the 2011-2013 EvAAL competitions, which led me to define the EvAAL framework. In 2014 I founded the IPIN indoor localisation competition, now part of IPIN, the Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation international conference. Since then I have chaired most IPIN competitions, focusing on conformance with the EvAAL framework for reliability and scientific soundness.
In 2019 I chaired the tenth edition of IPIN and was co-opted into the conference Steering Board.
My research interests have included communications protocols, specifically satellite and terrestrial wireless; Internet technology, specifically TCP/IP on wireless channels; simulation of communications systems. Currently they include RSS-based indoor localisation, interoperability, performance evaluation and standardisation of indoor localisation systems. I was co-inventor of a patent and I co-authored more than eighty peer-reviewed scientific papers.
I am serving as Executive Editor for ICT Express and served as Section Editor on "Navigation and Positioning" for MDPI Sensors.
I was Italian Representative in the European COST action 285 and I participated in several European funded research projects as member and task leader.
I supervised the use of software licenses in some European research projects. I encourage the use of free software licenses in the research community.
Free software (free as in freedom)
