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Istituto Superiore Mario Boella

Edoardo Calia Research Director

[email protected]

OCOVA 2008, Gap-Charance, September 9-10 2008


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April 1999 Strategic Agreement between Politecnico and

Compagnia di San Paolo to give propulsion to ICT

July 2000 The Institute is established by founding members,Compagnia di San Paolo and Politecnico diTorino

March 2001 Motorola, STMicroelectronics, Telecom Italia become industrial partners

Jan. 2003 ISMB ICT Research Subsidiary of Compagniadi San Paolo

Sept. 2003 ISMB in the new 4.000 m via Boggio building

March 2005 SKF new industrial partner of ISMB

Dec. 2007 ISMB partner of Microsoft Innovation Center

Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) History


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ISMB: an applied research excellence Centrewhere Politecnico and Industries work together

1. Cluster of ISMB/Politecnico/ industrial partners joint labs

Antennas and Electromagnetic Compatibility (AC)

Electronic and Systems (Chivasso) (CH)

e-Security (ES)

Networking (NE)

Photonics (PH)

Radio Technologies for Multimedia (RT)

Services & Applications (SA) Satellite Navigation (SN)

Around 250 researchers

a. 140 ISMBa. 110 Politecnico / industrial partners


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Istituto Superiore Mario BoellaMain cooperation with International Institutions

Anderson School of Management (UCLA) USA

Berkeley University USA

Henry Samueli School of Engineering of UCLA USA

Winmec Los Angeles USA

BUPT Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications - China

University of Hokkaido Japan

FAF Munich University Europe

Ertico Europe

ETSI Europe

Office of Outer Space Affairs of United Nations United Nations

Around 30 projects withmore than 45international partners

15% internationalresearchers


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Industry obtains...

Research: time and cost reduction.

Quick and efficient industrial resultsthrough concurrent engineering (industrialization concepts injected since theinitial phases in common research teams)

IPR acceleration (patent policies betweenpartners)

Coordination of efforts between different Turin researchcentres, network of institutions and ISMB


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Turin Research Centres

Fondazione Torino Wireless

I3P

Piemontech / Innogest

CEIP Camera di Commercio

Unione Industriale / Confindustria

API

A network of institutions
http://www.csp.it/index.phphttp://www.centroestero.org/HomePagehttp://www.to.camcom.it/HomePage


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POF-PLUS

European project (ISMB is coordinator) for the development of subsytems andcomponents for high-speed communication (>1Gb/s) on polymer opticalfibers (POF), in home environment.

Duration: 36 monthsTotal value: ~4M

EU financement: 2,6M

DPSK40Industrial cooperation with Mitel-Teleoptix, for the development of 40Gb/s

transceivers employing DPSK modulation techniques. The transceivers are

meant to become commercial products within 2009 first quarter

Pho ton ic s : m ajo r ongo ing p ro j ec t s


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23 papers for conferences and journals from experimental activities, ofwhich 19 including ISMB authors or activities of interest for ISMB

1 patent, with one ISMB co-author

Optical payload phase 2 : project in cooperation with Alenia, carried-onthrough whole 2007 and concluded with a final demonstration at

Alenia premises in january 2008POF-ALL: EU project, has had its peak activities in 2007. Closing in

2008 with a final demonstrationOptical sensors : LOCK demonstrator installed in the German

Sinagogue in Venice in april 2007, currently still working

Photon ics : s c ien t i fic p rod uct ion in 2007

Photo nic s : m ajor ISMB act ivi t ies run in 2007


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Broadband Wireless Networks Lab


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Current Interests

Not involved in research on WWAN (GPRS, UMTS) - Due to costs of infrastructures research on low range, narrowband and energy-efficient communications

(investigated by TRM lab) WPAN: Bluetooth

Industrial communications and real-time control WLAN: WiFi

Support to indoor and outdoord coverage and configuration Industrial communications Integrated services over WiFi (Voice, video, ) Trials on new technologies

802.11n product testing Mesh and 802.11s implementation on router-boards

Vehicular net and mobility WMAN: WiMax

Early stage


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Main Activities (i)Industrial Wireless

Based on Comaus experience (still growing) Full aid in the design of the new wireless robot control Measurement of throughput, PER, QoS parameters,

proprietary protocols behavior on wireless link, etc Troubleshooting on the prototype

Evolution: integration of other services (monitoring tools,realtime multimedia) on the same device

Other industrial Partners and Proposals Prima Electonics, Gruppo System, Avio, Eicas Eicas proposal (POR)

Wi-Fact proposal (L.297) Practical results

Involvement in the design of the first wirelesscontrol

Integration of Bluetooth in a real assembly line

Theoretical results: publications (1+1)


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Main Activities (ii)Vehicular Ad-hoc Nets (VaNet)

A particular case of Ad-Hoc and Meshcommunications involving mobility In partnership with UCLA

Projects and Partners Main Project: Damasco Funded by MIUR

(Italian Ministry of Research) MAE funding Cooperation with STM Easy Rider proposal (Industria 2015) VeNUS proposal

joint with Politecnico: Ajmone/LoPresti

Activities and expected results Simulation of mobility Simulation of V2V and V2I communications and

selection of appropriate protocol Test of new synchronous protocols (RR-ALOHA)

Experimental measures


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Main Activities (iii)Meshing Cooperative Robots

Development of a cooperativerobotic environment Application to logistics Cooperation between the communication

control plan and cooperation control plan Use of open platforms (routerboards) for new

routing algorithms Fusion of WiFi signal-based positioning with

other techniques (Visual, RFID,)

Project and partners MACP4LOG: funded by Piedomont Region

Erxa, Politecnico (Bona)

Activities and expected results Case study in Genova Harbor (Ignazio

Messina) Development of new control planes

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Main Activities (iv)(Outdoor) Mesh Networks

Implementation of Ad-Hocrouting Use of open platforms

(routerboards) Application to several projects

environmental monitoring

contryside connectivity againstDigital Divide

Practical results Prototype of SEPA Monviso

WiFi Terna project

Future steps by L2 mesh standard -IEEE

802.11s Mesh Media- Hybrid Networks

MMH Energy Aware mesh networks


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Introducing the Navigation Lab

The Navigation Lab ( NavSAS) is a joint research group of ISMB andP o l i t e c n i c o d i To r i n o University,operating in the satellite navigationand localization sectors.

Some numbers:

around 25 researchers

more than 90 publications (journals

and conferences) 6 patents owned by the Lab

More than 30 R&D projects since2004 related to GPS and Galileo

www.galileoblog.eu


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NavSAS Keywords on Galileo and

EGNOS:Galileo receiver core technologiesand algorithms (mass-market,

professional, Safety-Of-Life)

Fully SW and SW Radioimplementations for Galileo mass-market receivers

Assisted-Galileo and Assisted-GPS as a core element (OMA-

SUPL)Interference detection andmitigation algorithms

Quality control and multipathmitigation

Navigation at a Glance

Torino

GIOVE-A acquired and startedbeing tracked at 03.17.40 am


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NavSAS Keywords on Technology Platform

Development: Design and development of NAV/COM

embedded systems (e.g. Tetra+EGNOS,DMR+EGNOS)

Assisted-Galileo and Assisted-GPSimplementation on embedded systems(OMA-SUPL)

Ad-hoc design and development ofembedded solutions (HW and FW)

EGNOS Local Element

SW+FW interfaces toward third partyapplications

Mapping

Navigation at a Glance


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Higher Education on Galileo

The Master on Navigation and RelatedApplications aims at creatingspecialists and technicians able to

operate within Galileo/GPS frameworks

both at core system and services level.

UN-OOSA

5 editions since 2004, more than 75 worldwidestudents. Most of them are now in the satellite

navigation field


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Wireless Sensor Networks Lab

Started in 2004, with focus on the WirelessSensor Network (WSN) domain

At the end of 2007 new explorative research

areas (applied to WSN) have been launchedin cooperation with Polytechnic of Turin Cognitive Radio Networks Distributed Signal Processing Synchronization Opportunistic Communications


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WSN Competence Domain: Technologies

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Microsystems, Antennasand EMC Labs Microsystems Lab

Competence owned / being developed within TRMCompetence shared / area of cooperation with other Labs

Application Layer

Application SupportLayer

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MAC Sub-Layer

Physical Layer

Wireless Sensor Networks Layered Protocol Modeland cross-layer Management Planes


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Other Competences: Match with WSN

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Synchronization

OpportunisticCommunications

Distributed SignalProcessing

Application Layer

Application SupportLayer

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MAC Sub-Layer

Physical Layer

Wireless Sensor Networks Layered Protocol Modeland cross-layer Management Planes


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WSN Competence Domain: Applications

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Control and Automation Safety/Security and Surveillance E-Health

Ambient Intelligence / Personal Networks


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WSN Competence Domain: Platforms

Proprietary / Open-source CrossBow:

MICA2, MICA2dot: TinyOS, Proprietary radio MICAz, TelosB : TinyOS, IEEE 802.15.4 radio/MAC

Imote2: Microsoft .NET micro framework, IEEE802.15.4 radio/MAC

ZigBee Chipcon:

CC2420 CC2430 / CC2431 (with location engine)

Integration


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Prototypes/SystemsSoluzioni wireless RFID

Cane for blind users with integrated RFID and voice syntetizer Smart Cart (documents and objects tracking

using RFID)

Automated inventory system

Food (wine) chain traceability:RFID

Pationts identification in hospitalsusing an RFID-based bracelet


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Prototypes/SystemsSoluzioni Wireless RFID

Workforce management (tracking, multimedia annotation: pictures, voice etc.) for the city of Turin Paperless processes monitoring using mobile phones and

microbrowsers

Emergency managements and eCall for automotive application,EU project GST

Emergency management


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Prototypes/Systems

DVBT and voice recognition-based

interaction with the TV-set for onlinefilling of tax forms

Soluzioni per la multimedialita

Infomobility based on DVB-H(Polimedia)

Remote monitoring of patients usingDVB-T

IPTV for home entertainment usingPower line


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Prototypes/Systems

Digital Library BESS (digitization, indexing, search and delivery on line) for the PiemonteRegion

Management of multimedia content for museums (generation,storage and indexing, search and delivery)


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Prototypes/Systems

Remote monitoring of elder patients through wireless sensor networks and wearable devices (heartbeat, motion, temperature, light, location)

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