Special Session 3

Data Acquisition Systems (DAQs) are responsible with the process of sampling measurement signals (i.e. those embedding information about a real-world physical quantity) and converting the resulting samples into digital ones that can be used by a computer for numerical processing. In particular applications, DAQs must comply with tight requirements such as those for size, field-portability, energy consumption, data throughput, and data security. For example, Compressive Sampling (CS, also known as Compressed Sensing, Compressive Sensing, or Sparse Sampling) theory demonstrated that it could be adopted as a signal processing framework for most of the measurement signals, which exhibit sparsity in certain transformation domain. In few words, CS offers the possibility to acquire less data (i.e. samples) than Nyquist rate sampling-based methods, maintaining the possibility to reconstruct almost the entire information afterwards.

Therefore, adopting CS for measurement applications will give the possibility to reduce the complexity of DAQ devices and systems, to speed up the acquisition and transmission procedures, and to decrease the energy consumption, just to name few advantages.

In this Special Session, original papers are invited to be submitted pointing out measurement methods and instrumentation exploiting advanced DAQs that comply with application driven tight requirements.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Data Acquisition Systems with tight requirements (e.g. devices and systems)
• Novel measurement techniques and DAQ modelling
• Sparse analog/digital signal processing
• Compressive Sampling and ADCs
• Time Interleaving DAQ architectures
• DUT characterization
• Internet-of-Things (IoT)
• Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
• RF spectrum sensing and monitoring
• RF source localization
• Communication channel characterization (wired and wireless)
• Biomedical applications (ECG, EEG, MRI, etc.)
• Image and Video
• Cyber security (Hardware and Software)

Ioan Tudosa is currently a Senior Postdoc Researcher with the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento (BN), Italy. His current research interests include developing of: (i) new circuit architectures for low-power data acquisition systems (DAQ), (ii) hardware design for front-end/back-end DAQ, (iii) Analog-to-Information Converters (AIC) design and characterization, (iv) jitter measurement and its standardization, (v) design of embedded systems, (vi) distributed measurement systems including wireless sensor networks (WSNs), (vii) digital signal processors (DSPs) systems, and (viii) Hardware Security for Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. He has authored and co-authored more than 65 scientific papers, published on international journals and conference proceedings. He is a reviewer of international journals and conferences. Dr. Tudosa is an IEEE Senior Member of Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) since February 2017.

Francesco Picariello is currently a Postdoc Researcher with the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento (BN), Italy. His research interests include electrical and electronic circuit and system modeling, Compressive Sampling, biomedical signals and systems, applied electronics, embedded measurement system, microelectronics, image processing, and wireless sensor networks. Dr. Francesco Picariello published about 50 papers in international journals and in national and international conference proceedings on the following subjects: embedded systems, intelligent sensors, wireless sensor networks, distributed measurement systems, mobile devices, power consumption analysis for IoT, and aerial photogrammetry.

Luca De Vito joined the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio, as an Assistant Professor in 2008. Since January 2020, he is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Electronic Measurement. In Aug. 2018, he received the National Academic Qualification as Full Professor.
Since February 2015 he collaborates with the Magnetic Measurement (TE-MSC-MM), the Controls and Electrical Support (TE-CRG-CE) and the Hadron Synchrotrons Coherent Effects (BE-ABP-HSC) Sections of CERN. He is Chapter Chair Liaison of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS). He is Young President of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Naples Charter. He is member of the IEEE IMS TC-10, and contributed to the IEEE Std.1241, published in 2010, the IEEE Std.1658, published in 2011, and the IEEE Std.181, published in 2011, but he also participated the development of the IEEE Std.1057-2007. He is Chair of the IEEE IMS TC 10 working group about Digital-to-Analog Converters. He has been Technical Program chair of the 20th IMEKO TC-4 International Symposium in 2014 and Technical Program co-chair of the 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions of the IEEE MeMeA Symposium. He is Editor of the ELSEVIER Measurement and Measurement:Sensors journals. He published more than 140 scientific papers on international journals and conference proceedings. At the present time he is developing his research work in digital processing for measurement in telecommunications, data-converters and biomedical instrumentation.