Ricerc@Sapienza

The emerging demand for smart building systems has significantly stimulated the research on management platforms for sensors and actuators networks. In the last few years, several solutions have been proposed for this kind of networks, spanning from research to commercial systems.
As there are no really widespread standards, single devices operate based on proprietary protocols, making interoperability a significant issue. To achieve a thorough understanding of the performance of these systems in field experiments are needed.

A significant quantity of space-borne Global Navigation Satellite Systems-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) data over land was made available in the last decade, leading to an increasing interest in the assessment of the potentialities of this new remote sensing technique for land monitoring. In this frame, an electromagnetic simulator, such as the Soil And VEgetation Reflection Simulator (SAVERS), has the key role to support the understanding of the physical mechanism involved in the bistatic scattering and to identify the surface features mainly contributing to the observed signal.