Seminar on June 25, 2021

Title

The case study of Radio6ense, The last Metre of the Internet of Things

Speaker

Prof. Gaetano Marrocco, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

When and Where

June 25, 2021, 9:00-11:00
Engineering Teaching Building, room B15

Abstract

Radio6ense (R6E) is a spinoff of the Pervasive Electromagnetics Lab at the University of Roma Tor Vergata, founded in 2013 by prof. Gaetano Marrocco and three bright PhD students. The company originated from ten years of pioneering research in the Radiofrequency Identification applied to wireless massive sensing, later on, denoted as the Industrial Internet of Things (I-IoT). Since the beginning, R6E has been supporting big and medium-sized enterprises to develop technology to boost their digital transformation.

During the speech, the founders (prof. G. Marrocco, prof. C. Occhiuzzi, and Dr. S. Amendola) will tell how the company was born, how it approaches customers, how it continuously evolves its business model to fit the market, and will finally describe a typical workflow in a complex I-IoT project.

Short Bio

Gaetano MARROCCO is currently Full Professor of Electromagnetics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, director of the Medical Engineering Degree and Chair of the Pervasive Electromagnetics Lab. His research is currently focused to the development of the wireless physical layer of the Medical and Industrial Internet of Things. He pioneered the extension of RFID technology to the batteryless sensing of deformation, temperature, humidity, volatile compounds, implanted bio prosthesis, skin parameters, human motion recognition and restoration of epidermal senses. Associate Editor of IEEE RFID and chair of the Commission D - Electronics and Photonics, Union RadioScience International (URSI) - Italy, Co-founder and President of the University spin-off RADIO6ENSE, active in Industry 4.0.

Short Bio

Fabio Del Frate is Associate Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he teaches courses of Remote Sensing and Applied Electromagnetism. He is, or has been, principal investigator/project manager in several European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian Space Agency (ASI) funded research projects, author of more than 200 international scientific publications with a special focus on feature extraction algorithms from Earth Observation data using neural networks. He has been a GEO-K co-founder and now he is the President of the company.