Business Development and IPR manager at STE industries since 1998, with experience in automotive electronics.During my professional experience I have participated to the development of innovative solutions in the field of wireless energy efficient and ubiquitous sensor devices, and have abilities on converting ideas into IP and marketable products. Have strong leadership skill and personality, with ability to establishing good relationship. Have a good sense of communication and negotiation.
Wireless short-range communication applied to automotive applications, Tire Pressure Monitoring System, Electronic System integration and radio wave propagation in carcass and Short Pulse Technology applied to radio communication and extreme low power consumption wireless sensors are within my skills. I have an innate sense for the study of innovations and have a strong sense of environment preservation. Environment preservation is the main motivation in daily activity and work. Very sensitive to new technologies and development of energy efficiency in the area of wireless communication with specific address to the IOT. I’m currently working with innovative applications of “micro.sp” technology, recently patented, in the field of Agritech, Agriculture Precision and Precision Farming. Specialties: Patent application and innovation development are part of my skills and knowledge. I'm particularly educated to wireless communication applied to ubiquitous energy efficient wireless sensors for industrial and automotive applications. Since 2005 I'm dedicated to tire communication and technology development of innovative wireless sensors in the intelligent tire technology and V2I. My skills embrace area of benchmarking, product development and industrialization, I'm used to closely work and wisely support industries in the semiconductors and automotive and i'm also collaborating with global team for development of innovative business models and products.
Accomplishments
Patents
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Receiver of radiofrequency signals.
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Compacted patch antenna.
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A surface acoustic wave driving circuit and oscillator therefor.
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Apparatus for monitoring the pressure in tyres.
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Tire pressure monitoring system.
Publications
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A more efficient PPM scheme seems to be the future of Intelligent tire tech
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Setting Trends in tire sensors: micro.sp technology
Language
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Italian
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English
Projects:
I. Project Name: micro.sp Ultra low energy consumption wireless sensor.
Developer of wireless sensors with Ultra Low Power Consumption.
Owner of “micro.sp®”: a breakthrough technology that enable the trillion sensor vision in the Internet of Things.
STE Industries: Ste industries is an advanced fabless R&D center that, using core technologies in the space of data telemetry, is able to create innovative advances across industries, delivering unmatched unique solutions in the emerging sectors of energy efficient wireless sensors applied to the Internet of every things and big data collection.
Micro.sp: is a patented Innovation in short range radio frequency and refers to an innovative pulse schemes that enables highly miniaturized wireless sensors with very low power consumption equivalent to 2-3 orders of magnitude better than conventional system. The “micro.sp®” technology unlocks next generation battery powered IOT Wireless Sensors: with a total energy requirement of less than 220nJ/bit, when compared to other standards truly allows system’s lifetime up to 10 years by using the smallest CR1225 12mm 48mAh capacity lithium cell and leading research in the space of energy harvesting as a power source. “micro.sp®” technology, is a fully industrialized and commercially available device in the markets such as automotive, smart city, smart agriculture and vehicle monitoring and demonstrated cost savings largely below competitors’ target.
Micro.sp is a Key Enabling Technology with a TRL (Technology Readiness Level) of 9 (production phase).
Background: “the Trillion sensor vision” - One of the components that builds for the new digital world is the wireless sensor that stays at the bottom of the pyramid (last connection) and collect the necessary data for analytics in mobile monitoring, wearable, health, agriculture, automotive industrial and more generally in the Internet of Things. In order to get there, there’s a need to completely transform the economy scale of production and get access to the new paradigm: the least of the energy consumption and the smallest price per bit collected.
History:STE Industries, a Spin-off of STE srl a company founded in 1965 as an early Italian pioneer in radio frequency research, focuses on Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensors for telemetry and the Internet of Things. STE Industries is currently working with a number of major research institutes and organizations to develop vibration and thermal based energy harvesting to power wearable sensors and nodes. Recently STE Industries has begun, through its licensee Bridgestone as the market leader in tyre manufacturing, the rollout of battery powered Ultra low energy devices for trucking fleets to measure pressure in tires (TPMS) and, through the Inpulse joint venture (see
www.inpulse.tech
for reference) the roll out of innovative systems for Smart Agriculture. This choice is because (i) fleets are more sensitive to TPMS benefits, namely from one to five percent improvements in fuel efficiency (due to correctly inflated tires) and the reduced downtime (early detection of slow leaks and puncture) for saving fuel and improved economy scale in the transportation and supply chain, and (ii) Smart Agriculture because of the impact it will have in the incoming digitalized world and reach up to the new concept of agri-food supply chain 4.0 as the new approach to 2050 policies food and health requirements to meet growth of worldwide population. micro.sp technology meets requirements in many of the market verticals such as industrial, building automation, lighting, smart city a smart tracking of assets thus enabling new business models opening new opportunities of collecting data reflecting what are the modern needs to improve industrial processes and optimize data processing in the IOT and big data mining domain.
Technology: The focus of the company is on low power wireless sensors. STE Industries’ wireless sensors consumes less than 500 nA with a total system’s budget, depending on the application specific requirements, below 2μW which corresponds two to three orders of magnitude more efficient than conventional Wireless sensors. The underlying technology - which the company calls ““micro.sp®” - uses very short radio frequency pulses for wireless communication. The length of the pulses is on the microscale, typically between 2-5 μS, and make use of a dedicated pulse position modulation (PPM) scheme to efficiently transmit in the short range sensor’s data such as pressure, temperature, battery life and many other values that can be monitored through standard transducers. Additionally, overall size is also reduced: in example whereas conventional TPMS consists of a dedicated plastic box beneath the tire stem containing electronics components, STE Engineering's TPMS incorporates the circuitry into the tire stem itself.
Strategy and markets: STE Engineering is a technology developer, and does not generally support mass production - rather, it licenses to larger companies (as in the example it occurs in the field of TPMS where Bridgestone corp. is granted of a worldwide exclusive license to use in the field of tires), In the long term, the company is investigating the integration of sensors cured to tire carcass inner-liner and meet requisites of intelligent tire sensors (see key issue below) to measure various parameters in rolling conditions. STE industries is also investigating and developing applications in the industrial, smart city, lighting and white goods market.
Integration of micro.sp: Ste industries is currently working with giants Epcos, TDK and Microchip with the aim to integrate the micro.sp patented hardware into a small System in Package in the size of 7x7 mm with the ambition to provide integrated solution across verticals of markets such as Smart Agri-tech, Automotive, Industrial, Smart Logistic and wearables. For doing so STE has signed agreement with Epcos/TDK for the manufacturing of the micro.sp solution in the tiny package and deliver integrated systems for mobile devices and fast-growing business segments such as Internet of Things (IoT), drones, robotics, automotive applications and more.
Future perspectives and opportunities: to integrate micro.sp receiver in mobile, automotive (vehicle’s dashboard) and PC based platform to enable fast and efficient data collection through smart applications.
Energy Harvesting: STE Industries patented ultra-low power communication technologies joined to thermal micro-harvesting integration (provided by strategic partner Delta-Ti Research) is carried on to extends the applicability of IoT into unprecedented scenarios, where off-net powering is critical and mandatory.
On going partnerships: Epcos, TDK, Bridgestone, Octo Telematics, Ama, Flex, Telenor, Alcar. DeltaTi Research, Tieto.
II. Project name: INPULSE
May 2015 – May 2015
Project description
Breakthrough in cloud based application and platforms for data management and data analytics through use of Energy Efficient and scalable wireless sensors.
Based on the patented and innovative RF micro.sp core, that allowminiaturized wireless sensor to transmit data with the worldwide record in energy consumption x bit transmitted, "inpulse" shows a flexible and scalable web based telematic application to manage agriculture, industrial and off the road working vehicles that enables field data collection with full insight in data analytics.
Among the many functionalities supplied, "Inpulse" offers a snapshots and complete reports on assets and their location along with usage, real-time conditions and data history of both vehicle's and field sensors. An extremely detailed overview of data measurements and collected data from the environment, "Inpulse" enables analytics, geofencing functionalities to area of interests and deep machine learning for big data collection.
"Inpulse" aims to offer the best in class data management approach that can be easily integrated inad hoc cloud platforms thus allowing advances in fusion sensor and deep machine learning techniques in agriculture, industrial, logistics and many other of the market verticals in the domain if Internet of Things.
See project INPULSE
http://inpulse.tech
Media
Web sites:
www.stecom.com
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www.ste-industries.com –
www.inpulse.tech
Video:
http://inpulse.tech/logistics.html
http://inpulse.tech/index.html
Bridgestone commercial fleet tpms:
http://www.bridgestone.co.uk/truck-and-bus/fleet-care/total-tyre-systems/
Video:
http://bridgestone.azureedge.net/truck-and-bus/~/media/Files/Commercial/Central/Videos/TBR_TPMS_FullHDEN.ashx?vs=1&d=20141113T162256&la=en-gb
Contacts:
Paolo Moiraghi, Co-Founder & CTO
Phone: +39 340 8108983
Email:
paolo.moiraghi@ste-industries.com
Linkedin: https://it.linkedin.com/in/paolo-moiraghi-84085b6
Organization Information:
STE Industries Srl: Via Bistolfi Leonardo, 49 - Milan - 20134 Italy - +39 02 2641 1765.
Business model(s) and targets: Licenses technology. Seeking industrial Partnerships and new Investors.
Stage of development: Development, IP portfolio, product commercialization.
Technologies and materials: Sensor technologies; Wireless communication technology; Power electronics, battery less operated devices for Data Mining and data analytics.
Products: Wireless power product; Energy Efficient Wireless Sensors and Internet of Things.
Applications: Industrial, Smart city, Smart mobility, Automotive, Agriculture.
