Panagiotis Demestichas of University of Piraeus

Cities need coordinated investments into advanced solutions to transform their operation and optimize their “liveability”.  

To positively impact the lives of many citizens investments are needed in key areas.

Air quality and environment protection at large. The breathing of polluted air is a key problem for city inhabitants, and the cause of many health issues. Measuring at a fine grained level of detail, analyzing / predicting the impact, issuing warnings

The use of water and energy resources needs to be optimized. Water quality needs to be rigidly monitored, while energy needs should be served and be served through renewable sources, at the highest extent possible.

Transportation infrastructure need to be monitored, in terms of structural health and traffic they carry to enable subsequent optimizations.

Last but not least, the citizen health, especially, that of special groups and of the elderly needs to be constantly monitored, by the respective specialized personnel and, of course, be accessible by the “close” / “next-of-kin” ones.

The talk is going to discuss on such applications, benefits and underpinning technologies / challenges, and on the way that the aggregation leads to a comprehensive and highly effective result.

Biography:

Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas is a Professor at the University of Piraeus, Department of Digital Systems, School of ICT, Greece. Currently, he focuses on the development of systems for WINGS ICT Solutions (www.wings-ict-solutions.eu) and its spin-out, ditto  (https://ditto-gr.eu/) and Incelligent (www.incelligent.net). WINGS focuses on advanced solutions, leveraging on IoT / 5G / AI / AR, for the environment (air quality, protection), for utilities and infrastructures (water, energy, gas, transportation, construction), for production and manufacturing (aquaculture, agriculture and food safety, logistics and industry 4.0), service sectors (health, defense). Incelligent focuses on products for telecommunication infrastructures, banking and sectors of a digital government. Panagiotis conducts research interests include B5G / 6G, cloud to extreme-edge continuum, IoT solutions, big data management, artificial intelligence, orchestration / diagnostics / intent-oriented mechanisms. He holds a Diploma and a Ph.D. degree on Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He holds patents, has published numerous articles and research papers, and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Senior Member of IEEE. 

Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas, 
University of Piraeus,  
WINGS ICT Solutions 

Address:Athens, Greece