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 in the field of satellite communications, fade countermeasure and terrestrial wireless channel modelling as a member of the Wireless Networking group.
While organising the 2011-2013 EvAAL competitions, my scientific interest moved to IoT and indoor localisation. I have defined the EvAAL framework, which is the basis for the IPIN indoor localisation competitions. The IPIN competitions, most of which I have chaired from 2014 to 2023, are part of IPIN, the Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation international conference, of which I chaired the tenth edition in 2019 and of which I am a member of the Steering Board.
I am Founding Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN). I am Executive Editor for ICT Express and Section Editor on "Navigation and Positioning" for MDPI Sensors.
I have participated in the European COST action 285 as Italian representative and I have participated in several European funded research projects as member and task leader.
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 have supervised the use of software licenses in some European projects. I encourage the use of free software licenses in the research community.