SENSES (SEnsors NetworkS and Embedded Systems Laboratory) is a laboratory of the Computer Science Department at University of Rome "La Sapienza", directed by Prof. Chiara Petrioli.
Our current research activities include the design, implementation and evaluation of low power sensing systems and cyber physical systems; the design of novel communication paradigms for IoT and sensing systems equipped with multi-source energy harvesting and wake up radios; the design and real-life evaluation of protocol stacks for underwater sensor networks; the design and implementation of RFID systems and of systems based on passive backscattering; the design and evaluation of E-health and assisted living systems; the design of solutions exploiting advanced phy layer paradigms such as cognitive networking; the design of solutions for green, battery-less mobile networking; the design and evaluation of security solutions for energy-harvesting wireless sensor networks; the design of WSN-based solutions for structural health monitoring and archeological site/historical buildings monitoring.
The lab is one of the core components of the new Center for Cyber Intelligence and Information Security and of Sapienza Innovazione ICT technology for security inter-department lab. Sapienza Innovazione is 'La Sapienza' technology incubator, funded by the italian ministry of industry.
The lab has collaborations with the following institutions: MIT AUV lab, UCLA, UMASS Amherst, Penn State University, Northeastern University, Sandia National Labs, University of Central Florida, NATO STO CMRE, University of Padova, SINTEF, University of Pisa.
The lab has collaborations with the following industries: Selex, Barco, Nexse, WSENSE, Thales, Kongsberg, Evologics, Graaltech, Solexperts, STMicroelectronics.
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SENSES and SENSES coordinated project SUNRISE have been featured among the innovative research projects covered by Presa Diretta "La Ricerca Tradita".
SENSES has led the SAFE-ART project, a national project performed in collaboration with the italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Istituto Superiore di Conservazione e Restauro, Scuderie del Quirinale, and WSENSE srl. SAFE-ART has developed real-time microclimate and dynamic structural health monitoring of works of arts under transportation with the objective to develop best practices for safer tranportations.
The SUNRISE Project has been featured on TG3 Leonardo. Find out more and watch the video (in Italian): 
SENSES Lab and the GENESI spinoff 
Within the 
The demo "SUNRISE project: The Internet of Underwater Things" by Daniele Spaccini, Roberto Petroccia, Chiara Petrioli, Ricardo Martins, João Borges de Sousa, Renato Caldaz, Tommaso Arzilli, Davide Lamanna, Alessandro Galizia and Enrico Renzi, showing in an integrated way the SUNRISE technologies, won the 
The SUNRISE Project, the WSENSE spin-off and the SENSES Lab have been featured on RaiNews24. Find out more and watch the video (in Italian) at:
Underwater robots can explore seas and rivers, gathering in groups to solve problems together, if they learn to cooperate. 
The new 
Senses Lab first university spinoff company, 
