CISTER Researcher Lectures at the University of Trento

CISTER researcher Nuno Pereira gave a lecture at the “Advanced School on ICT for Future Energy Systems”, which took place at the University of Trento, Italy, from 25 to 29 of July. The main objective of the School was to analyze how information technology can be the way to reduce energy consumption and to become more environmentally responsible in all human activities. Distributed and pervasive sensing, monitoring and control will play a key role in achieving this goal and will pose novel research challenges in the development of distributed applications that must integrate aspects related to generation, storage, distribution and efficient use of energy sources.

In this framework, the school addressed the most relevant research domains, presented various perspectives and underlying technologies, identified the most important challenges and research themes and provided interaction with distinguished scholars and establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future.

The target audience of school was post-graduate students, PhD students, and young researchers from universities and industrial laboratories around the world, and included talks by e.g. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli from the University of California at Berkeley and David Atienza from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Nuno’s talk was dedicated to applications of pervasive sensing technologies for densely instrumented energy-efficient physical infrastructures. Namely, the talk presented topics related to ongoing research projects at CISTER, such as SENODs (http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/projects/senods/) and SmartSkin (http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/projects/smartskin/).

More information at http://events.unitn.it/en/futureenergy2011.