Special Session 24

Nowadays, the necessity to preserve raw materials without limiting the level of quality of life currently achieved is pressing.
All over the world, researchers and companies, as well as legislators, are active in this field and are trying to develop new technologies and new strategies to meet these needs. Pushing on energy efficiency is one of the elective politics to satisfy these apparently contrasting requirements.
The question is if the classical concept of energy efficiency can evolve in something new that could allow to further increase the performance and efficacy of current politics.
Watching at the efforts that are being made all over the world, it is clear that the achievement of this goal can only pass through a pervasive use of the technologies on which the IoT is based and, therefore, of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. Distributed static and dynamic sensors, which interact with the internet and which are able to store and manage large quantities of data in the cloud and their smart processing seems to be the way traced to transform the classical concept of energy efficiency into an even more performing tool to safeguard the planet and the level of quality of life currently achieved.

This special session welcomes original contributions aiming at energy efficiency with the use of innovative sensors, measuring systems, metrics, algorithms, systems or IoT technologies as well as the presentation of new strategies, methodologies and requirements that can stem from these researches.

• Smart Grid, Smart City;
• Smart Sensors;
• WSN;
• Algorithms for the management of WSN;
• Algorithms for the management of Data;
• Alternative Energies;
• Energy harvesting;
• Complex Systems;
• Power Quality;
• Electrical Efficiency;
• Energy Efficiency;
• New Policies, Strategies, Requirements and Standards for energy efficiency;
• New measurement systems for energy efficiency;
• Case studies even in factories;
• Specific instrumentations;
• Reliability, validity, and accuracy of sensors, measuring systems and systems;
• Data fusion or processing for accurate signal estimation.

Eng. Fabio Leccese received his degree (2000) and the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering (2004) from the Università degli Studi "Roma Tre". Since 2006 is a Researcher in electrical and electronic measurements in the same University and currently attends the Scince Department.
His research covers many interdisciplinary fields with special regards for the investigation of the links between energy efficiency and new management technologies, in this direction, the development of new measurement chains for power quality analysis is one of his principal activity.
He has worked for different research projects both national and international.

Emanuele Piuzzi is an Associate Professor in electrical and electronic measurements with the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome. His current research interests include the measurement of complex permittivity of materials, time domain reflectometry applications, biomedical instrumentation design, and evaluation of human exposure to electromagnetic fields.

Podestà Luca obtained the degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” Italy.
Since 1991 he is Researcher in Electrical Measurements with the Department of Astronautic, Electrical and Energetic Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza” Italy. His current research interests are Power Quality Measurements, Virtual Instrumentation, Teaching and Learning in Engineering and Metrology.

Silvia Sangiovanni was born in Rome, Italy. She received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1990 and 1994, respectively.
Since 1995 he has been a Researcher on Electrical Measurement in the Department Astronautic, Electrical and Energetic Engineering in the same University. Her current research interests are in the field of Digital Signal Processing applied to the Electrical Measurements, in the field of power quality and clinical engineering. She is a member of the Italian. Group on Electrical and Electronic Measurements.