on 11-12-2025
Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Department of Electromechanical Engineering (DEM) of the University of Beira Interior will host a special online seminar on December 11 at 9:00 a.m., featuring Pietro Ferreira from Université Savoie Mont Blanc. The session will last approximately 1h30 to 1h45 and will take place in the DEM meeting classroom, with the speaker joining remotely.
With the talk titled “Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)”, the speaker will explore the emerging paradigm of Edge AI, focusing on embedded solutions that bring intelligence directly to where data is produced. As IoT evolves into AIoT, devices are no longer passive data collectors; they become smart systems capable of interpreting information, learning from patterns, and making autonomous decisions at the edge. This shift enables lower latency, reduced bandwidth usage, greater reliability, and faster responses across a wide range of applications.
The seminar will highlight the impact of AIoT in areas such as industrial operations, smart cities, healthcare, logistics, and retail, where predictive maintenance, enhanced safety, and personalized user experiences are driving significant transformation.
Bio:
Pietro Ferreira (IEEE S'03-SG'06-M'12-SM'18) holds a B.Eng. cum laude in Electronics and Computer Engineering (2006) and an M.Sc. in Microelectronics (2008) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. He earned his Ph.D. in Communications and Electronics from Télécom Paris (IPP), France, in 2011, followed by an HDR in Physics from Université Paris-Saclay in 2019. His research focuses on high-performance, high-reliability circuits and systems. He has worked at IM2NP (UMR CNRS 7334) and IEMN (UMR CNRS 8520), and from 2014 to 2024 served as Associate Professor at Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, GeePs (UMR CNRS 8507). Since 2024, he is Full Professor at Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, CROMA (UMR CNRS 5130). His current work explores design methodologies and microwave instrumentation techniques for ultra-low-power integrated circuits in harsh environments
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Visions for Future Communications Summit (VFCS) is a top-quality research workshop, with the support of IEEE, oriented to identify key research areas in information and communication technologies in the mid-term of 7 to 10 years. Considering that by 2030 6G will be reaching the market, and taking into consideration the expected innovation cycle times, it is now appropriate that we start discussions on Challenges for 2030 and Beyond.
The VFCS is an exercise we perform as the launching effort for updating the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the EU, an effort we have continuously made in the last years. This upcoming SRIA will have a peculiar significance. It will be the SRIA associated with the launch of FP10, the new framework program. As such, this will have a particularly large long-term impact in helping to define Europe's long-term priorities for the whole framework program.
We invite interested parties to present their views, both in terms of "technologies to address after 2030" and in terms of "the society we will need to support after 2030". Both aspects, the bottom-up technology (the technology supply side) and the top-down requirements (the societal demand side), will be very useful for our collective build of the upcoming SRIA, and facilitate the building of a community view on where we should orient our strategic development lines.
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