Lorenzo Carnevale

• Doctor of Engineering
• Assistant Professor at University of Messina

The global Internet of Things (IoT) medical device market is always growing [...]

EDGEmergency is a platform designed for disaster management that can dynamically leverage the edge infrastructure potentially already present within the emergency perimeter. Edge devices, from IoT to smartphones, possess an increasingly significant computational capacity that can be exploited, by changing their behavior in real-time and creating a...

Cloud-edge continuum is a recently recreated term used to refer to solutions that aim at taking advantage of a distributed cloud-edge infrastructure to run applications where they best fit at a given moment, which is dependent on infrastructure system, application, and constraints, eventually adapting that according to a change on those factors. Un...

In this article, to the purpose of simplifying challenges in designing automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems working on disordered speech, we focus on an isolated word recognition solution based on a convolutional neural network architecture to predict the presence of precise voice commands within atypical utterances. Italian speech recognizer...

Abstract:The malware spreading in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has lately attracted the attention of many researchers as a hot problem in nonlinear systems. WSN is a collection of sensor nodes that communicate with each other wirelessly. These nodes are linked in a decentralised and distributed structure, allowing for efficient data collection and...

In the framework of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the synergism between edge computing and artificial intelligence has led to the development of intelligent objects that process and respond to human speech. This acts as a key enabler for multiple application scenarios, such as smart home automation, where the user’s voice is an interface for...

Nowadays, many Cloud companies adopt serverless computation based on the Function as a Service (FaaS) paradigm. Such an approach, built on the dynamic provisioning of serverless functions, has significantly altered the design of Cloud applications. Indeed, complex systems may now be viewed as a graph of serverless functions (i.e., workflow) distrib...

Self‐reported assessments of people with dementia (PwD) are sparsely used in research, which may be due to the progressive impairment of cognitive functioning and higher time expenditures for assessments. Proxy assessments by healthcare professionals or relatives are often used instead. The aim was to investigate whether a technology‐based interven...

Nowadays, Serverless computing is emerging as one of the most used Cloud services. In particular, the Function as Service (FaaS) is bringing to Cloud consumers, developers, and devops many advantages in terms of service costs, speed of development, and ease of deployment. In fact, it stands to be a key technology for enabling the Cloud-Edge Continu...

Serverless Computing and Function as a Service (FaaS) are emerging as prominent solutions for making simpler , faster and architecture-independent software deployment on Cloud and Edge tiers. This new trend has been in part used in Cloud-Edge Continuum applications that need to run functions over different kinds of nodes, in order to respect some d...

Background: Self-reported assessments of people with dementia (PwD) are sparsely used in research, which may be due to the progressive impairment of cognitive functioning and higher time expenditures for assessments. Proxy assessments by healthcare professionals or relatives are often used instead. The aim was to investigate whether a technology-ba...

Com o aumento significativo de usuários móveis, a busca pelo gerenciamento de recursos tornou-se essencial. Essa gerência deve visar atender à cobertura do sinal, mas, principalmente, manter o Acordo de Nível de Serviço desejado, independentemente do número de usuários conectados. Assim, propomos a utilização de quatro modelos de predição aplicado...

This work studies and defines the problem of providing extensive and opportunistic Edge AI-based area coverage in smart city application scenarios, by researching and determining the optimal configuration of sensing and computational resources for minimizing the environmental/technology footprint of the solution. A typical smart city computing cont...

Background Dementia care is largely provided by informal caregivers, which can present significant challenges and increase caregivers’ burden. Humanoid socially assistive robots (SARs) have the potential to provide assistance, but evidence is missing. The aim was to explore the psychosocial effects of Coach Pepper (humanoid SAR system “AMIGO” combi...

Background The evidence of social robots for people with dementia (PwD) living at home is unclear. The aim was to explore the effects of Coach Pepper (socially assistive humanoid robot system “AMIGO” combined with external tablet‐based training) versus an exclusively tablet‐based training on quality of life, motivation, cognition, mobility, care de...

Background: The evidence of social robots for people with dementia (PwD) living at home is unclear. The aim was to explore the effects of Coach Pepper (socially assistive humanoid robot system “AMIGO” combined with external tablet-based training) versus an exclusively tablet-based training on quality of life, motivation, cognition, mobility, care d...

Background: Dementia care is largely provided by informal caregivers, which can present significant challenges and increase caregivers’ burden. Humanoid socially assistive robots (SARs) have the potential to provide assistance, but evidence is missing. The aim was to explore the psychosocial effects of Coach Pepper (humanoid SAR system “AMIGO” comb...

Background: New technologies, like socially assistive robots (SARs), may have the potential to support caregivers at home. Still, the evidence for people with dementia in home care is unclear because a lot of studies are performed in a laboratory or institutional setting, and mainly use robots in prototype stages. Objective: This study aims to expl...

Nowadays, Healthcare Social Networks (HSNs) offer the possibility to enhance patient care and education. However, they also present potential risks for patients due to the possible distribution of poor-quality or wrong information along with their bad interpretation. On one hand doctors and practitioners want to promote the exchange of information...

Nowadays, we are observing a growing interest about Big Data applications in different healthcare sectors. One of this is definitely cardiology. In fact, electrocardiogram produces a huge amount of data about the heart health status that need to be stored and analysed in order to detect a possible issues. In this paper, we focus on the arrhythmia d...

BACKGROUND New technologies, like socially assistive robots (SAR) may have the potential to support caregivers at home, but the evidence for people with dementia (PWD) in home care is unclear, because a lot of studies are performed in laboratory- or institutional settings mainly using robots in prototype stages. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is...

Background New technologies, like socially assistive robots (SARs), may have the potential to support caregivers at home. Still, the evidence for people with dementia in home care is unclear because a lot of studies are performed in a laboratory or institutional setting, and mainly use robots in prototype stages. Objective This study aims to explo...

Nowadays, the latest technological advancements have changed the centralized Cloud Computing model, going through Edge and Internet of Things (IoT), which are closer to end users. In particular, current Cloud Computing programming models deal with the recent evolution of the IoT phenomenon because smart devices are becoming more and more pervasive,...

The mobility of people is one of the main critical aspects related to daily life in a city, causing both traffic congestion and pollution. Smart-mobility services based on vehicular cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) are emerging as new solutions that can address such issues. In this context, the FIWARE acceleration program, along wit...

Over the past years, in order to care neurolodical diseases, beyond conventional physical treatments, robotics rehabilitation has been widely adopted for improving the patients’ therapies. Recent scientific works were mainly aimed at personalizing treatments, according to the patient’s clinical conditions. On the contrary, this scientific work aims...

The Cloud-of-Things (CoT) paradigm is a challenging approach to manage IoT applications exploiting Cloud resources and services. In order to avoid latency in Cloud–IoT communications, the management of time-sensitive services has to be moved to the edge of the CoT. To this aim, a secure Cloud-to-Edge environment for seamless management of IoT appli...

Abstract: In recent years, the rapid growth of new Cloud technologies acted as an enabling factor for the adoption of microservices based architecture that leverages container virtualization in order to build modular and robust systems. As the number of containers running on hosts increases, it becomes essential to have tools to manage them in a si...

Nowadays, thanks to new technologies, we are observing an explosion of data in different fields such as clinical, environmental and so on. In this context, a typical example of the well-known Big Data problem is represented by visualization. In this work, we propose an innovative platform for managing the oceanographic acquisitions. More specifical...

Ocean data management plays an important role in the oceanographic problems, such as ocean acidification. These data, having different physical, biological and chemical nature, are collected from all seas and oceans of the world, generating an international networks for standardizing data formats and facilitating global databases exchange. Cloud co...

Nowadays, we are observing a massive digitalization of clinical tasks in Hospital Information Systems (HIS). Even more medical devices belongs to Internet of Things (IoT) applications that generate a huge amount of clinical data. Therefore, the healthcare industry is looking at modern big data storage, processing and analytics technologies. In this...

The sudden traffic slowdown especially in fast scrolling roads and highways characterised by a scarce visibility is one of the major causes of accidents among motorised vehicles. It can be caused by other accidents, work-in-progress on roads, excessive motorised vehicles especially at peak times and so on. Typically, fixed traffic sensors installed...

Nowadays, the growing global economy and demand for customized products are bringing the manufacturing industry from a sellers’ market towards a buyers’ market. In this context, the smart manufacturing enabled by Industry 4.0 is changing the whole production cycle of companies specialised on different kinds of products. On one hand, the advent of C...

The role of the Big Data analysis in the public and private sector has grown and is requiring the formation of a new professional figure: the Data Scientist. Though its role would be to concentrate more on data analysis and interpretation for extracting insigths, longer time is often lost in the integration, cleaning and data management phases, in...

Nowadays, healthcare is facing Big Data processing in order to support medical staff by means of decision making tools. In this context, a challenging topic is the storing and analysis of data in the cardiology field. Electrocardiogram produces signals about the heart health that need to be processed in order to detect a possible disorder. In this...