Ricerc@Sapienza

In the context of massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC), 3GPP has introduced in Release 13 the Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) standard, that appears particularly suitable for uplink, delay-Tolerant low-rate communications. On the one hand, being compatible with the existing 4G cellular systems, and also envisioned as a primary player in next 5G, NB-IoT is developed upon the existing heterogeneous architecture, formed by several overlapping tiers (HetNets), e.g. macro and small cells.

Seamless location awareness is considered a cornerstone in the successful deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT). Support for IoT devices in indoor positioning platforms and, vice versa, availability of indoor positioning functions in IoT platforms, are however still in their early stages, posing a significant challenge in the study and research of the interaction of indoor positioning and IoT.

With the incoming 5G access networks, it is forecasted that Fog computing (FC) and Internet of Things (IoT) will converge onto the Fog-of-IoT paradigm. Since the FC paradigm spreads, by design, networking and computing resources over the wireless access network, it would enable the support of computing-intensive and delay-sensitive streaming applications under the energy-limited wireless IoT realm. Motivated by this consideration, the goal of this paper is threefold. First, it provides a motivating study the main “killer” application areas envisioned for the considered Fog-of-IoT paradigm.

Public educational systems operate thousands of buildings with vastly different characteristics in terms of size, age, location, construction, thermal behavior and user communities. Their strategic planning and sustainable operation is an extremely complex and requires quantitative evidence on the performance of buildings such as the interaction of indoor-outdoor environment. Internet of Things (IoT) deployments can provide the necessary data to evaluate, redesign and eventually improve the organizational and managerial measures.

The research is oriented towards the definition of appropriate methodologies useful to seize the opportunities that the paradigm of industry 4.0 offers to the building industry.

L’industria delle costruzioni, attanagliata da una persistente crisi, ha nelle opportunità date dalla rivoluzione digitale l’occasione di efficientare l’intero comparto. Tali opportunità non sono insite tanto negli strumenti, quanto nelle innovative metodologie di gestione dei processi, legate agli sviluppi delle tecniche di intelligenza artificiale. Nell’articolo si presenta dunque l’elaborazione di un prototipo di integrazione tra Agenti autonomi e BIM: il risultato è la simulazione di alternative progettuali, a seconda delle diverse possibilità di ottimizzare le risorse a disposizione.