Ambient Intelligence area is oriented to provide increased personalized services to the user.
This tasks is obtained by developing systems composed by heterogeneous sensors able to extract high-level features.
Subsequently analysis, decision and personalized communications are the main steps in order to satisfy the users query depending to the context.

Cognitive Surveillance research area is involved in developing automatic systems able to recognize events of interests.
Mainly, the research is oriented to realize automatic systems able to detect and track objects and to recognize particular situations as panic events in area of interest. Using this information, bio-inspired techniques are designed to provide the system with the capability of learning from the experience the interactions with the external world. Then, adaptive decision strategies exploit this skill to act (through actuators) directly on the environment and change its current state for security, in case preventive, tasks.

The research activities are focused on Signal Processing Techniques for Spectrum Monitoring, Mode Identification and Classification, new architectures for multimodal receivers.
By using Time-Frequency techniques and Pattern Recognition procedures,new algorithms for air interfaces identification have been developed in case of superimposed modes to make the terminal aware of the external environment.

The research activity of the area is devoted to mobile wireless communication and satellite wireless communications.
In the context of satellite communications the research activity is devoted to develop adaptive and non-conventional signal processing techniques for GPS and the new GALILEO system for coarse synchronization and tracking

Activities in this area concern exploitation of augmented mixed reality exhibits adaptively suited to visitors’ preferences according to worldwide trend of using interactive applications based on innovative interfaces and image processing algorithms. These applications may provide new form of entertainement to people visiting cultural sites involving them in amusing activities while playing, learning and phisycally interacting.