Dr. Alice BUFFI

Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering, Università di Pisa, Italy

Date: 3:00pm to 4:00pm (GMT+8), 4 SEP 2020

Venue: Webinar

Abstract: In the era of the Forth Industrial Revolution, the Internet-of-Thing (IoT) paradigm extends to the industrial processes aiming to get high efficiency and safety. Thus, the Industrial IoT (IIoT) finds application in developing smart factories and smart logistics solutions. In such framework, the Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) represents an enabling technology to create smart items able to identification, localization, data acquisition and elaboration, implementation and communication. In this webinar, the challenges of performing tag/reader localization in industrial scenario will be discussed. The main localization solutions will be introduced together with the recent technical advancements, by discussing the trade-offs between system infrastructure and localization accuracy. Examples of practical implementations in real industrial scenarios will be presented by describing also the recent activities on RFID-based localization at the University of Pisa.

About the speaker: Alice Buffi (Member, IEEE) was born in Manciano, Italy in 1984. She received the B.S. and M.S. (summa cum laude) degrees in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in “Applied electro-magnetism in electrical and biomedical engineering, electronics, smart sensors, nanotechnologies”, with Doctor Europaeus label from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2006, 2008 and 2012, respectively. She was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K., in 2012. Since 2012 she has been with the University of Pisa, where she is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering. She co-authored several international journal papers and international conferences contributions, one European patent and one Italian patent application. Her current research topics include measurement methods to locate static or moving items through radiofrequency identification (RFID) systems operating at the ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) band in Industry 4.0 scenarios. Besides, she has interests in classification methods for smart gates and smart storage systems. She is a member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the Antennas and Propagation Society. She serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification. Dr. Buffi received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE RFIDTA 2019 International Conference and was a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science, Commission B, in 2013 and 2016.