Helbert da Rocha

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at University of Beira Interior

Smart sensors and networks have spread worldwide over the past few decades. In the industry field, these concepts have found an increasing quantity of applications. The omnipresence of smart sensor networks and smart devices, especially in the industrial world, has contributed to the emergence of the concept of Industry 4.0. In a world where everyt...

This paper addresses indoor localization using an anchor-based system based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 technology, adopting the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for the distance estimation. Different solutions have been proposed in the scientific literature to improve the performance of this localization technology, but a detailed p...

Distributed control and measurement systems are robust and flexible thanks to their reconfigurability and plug-and-play characteristics. IEC 61499 and IEEE 1451 standards are proposed for distributed and plug-and-play control and measurement systems. However, IEC 61499 standards do not provide an integration guideline at the transducer level, and a...

Everyday tasks use sensors to monitor and provide information about processes in different scenarios, such as monitoring devices in manufacturing or homes. Sensors need to communicate, with or without wires, while providing secure information. Power can be derived from various energy sources, such as batteries, electrical power grids, and energy ha...

The shop floor or factory floor is the area inside a factory where manufacturing production is executed. The digitalisation of this area has been increasing in the last few years, introducing the Digital Twin (DT) and the Industry 4.0 concepts. A DT is the digital representation of a real object or an entire system. A DT includes a high diversity o...

Industrial Internet of Things focuses on the manufacturing process and connects with other associated concepts such as Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Cyber-Physical Production Systems. Because of the complexity of those components, it is necessary to define reference architectures models to manage Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that has disseminated in the last few years. The idea is to connect smart devices through a network solution. IoT will be present in everyday objects and in people’s lives. The economic impact of IoT solutions is expected to be, annually, billions of dollars. To provide data exchange from smart devices, som...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a technological paradigm and one of the most important tendency of TI nowadays, it is having a broad scope of research in the most different areas. IoT is playing an important role in the concept of smart cities, smart grid, smart health monitoring, smart clothes, preventive maintenance, etc. The IoT contribution to citi...