University of Pisa Summer - Winter Schools & Foundation Course
Summer School Enabling Technologies for Industrial Internet of Things
Pisa, Italy
Summer Course
DURATION
8 days
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 500
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: Summer School ET-I2oT 2026 at The University of Pisa delivers 6 ECTS (about 52 hours) on enabling IoT technologies: electronics, RFID, sensors, networking, Web of Things, software and computer engineering. It's for bachelor (final year), master and PhD students, early-stage researchers and industry practitioners. Lessons in Pisa and online (TEAMS). A final technical report due 30 September 2026 registers the exam for the ECTS; places min 8, max 40.
Career Outcomes: Prepares for IoT careers such as embedded or IoT engineer, RFID/sensor specialist, software or network developer, data engineer, R&D researcher or industry consultant in automotive and Industry 4.0.
The 2026 edition of the Summer School Enabling Technologies for Industrial Internet of Things (ET-I2oT 2026) is organized to provide 6 ECTS (about 52 hours of front lessons) in the fields of Electronics, RFID, Sensors, Networking, Web of Things, SW for IoT, Computer Engineering, targeting on one side an audience of Bachelor (last year), Master and PhD students, and on the other side early stage researchers and practitioners from Academia or Industry.
Both HW and SW aspects of IoT will be presented and discussed during the school.
Lecturers from University of Pisa, University of Kiel, University Grenoble Alpes, plus invited speaker from Industry.
Particular focus will be on Digital technologies for AutoMotive and Industry 4.0.
The Summer School has the support of the IEEE Council on RFID.
A final exam is foreseen and it will consist in completing a technical report, starting from one of the subject of the course and integrated with data and infos from student experience, assigned the last day of the course. The technical report should be completed within 30 September 2026, to have the exam registered with a final mark and 6 ECTS.
The Summer School will be activated with at least 8 students. The maximum number of participants is set to 40 students.
Lessons will be held in Pisa, at Polo della Memoria San Rossore 1938, via Risorgimento.
The program will be activated also in distance learning mode (TEAMS platform).
The Summer School provides theoretical and practical lessons about recent advances in enabling technologies for electronics, future wireless networks and wireless sensor networks, edge AI, cloud computing & HPC, digital twin, in scenarios such as IoT, Industry 4.0, Cyber-PhysicalSystems (CPS), autonomous vehicles, aerospace.
Particular focus will be on Digital technologies for AutoMotive and Industry 4.0.
Wireless circuits and systems and internet technology are becoming pervasive in many applications fields such as Industry4.0, vehicle industry (e.g. connected cars, advanced driver assistance systems, V2V and V2I wireless communications, radar, lidar), automation in industrial or domotic scenarios (e.g. wireless sensor and actuator networks), health&wellness (e.g. wireless wearable sensing and biomedical circuits), robots, aerospace.
A final exam is foreseen. After passing the exam the University of Pisa will register the course as an official exam of 6 ECTS. Indeed, the school has got already an accreditation at European level being part of the network of European Summer Schools. The school is at its 10th edition: in the past 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions hosted about 40 students/year, from 4 continents (Europe, America, Asia, Africa) with invited speakers like Federico Faggin, the “father of the microprocessor”, Franco Maloberti, IEEE CAS society President, Lorenzo Fioramonti, past Minister for University and Research. Lecturers will be from University of Pisa, University of Kiel, University Grenoble Alpes plus invited speaker from Industry.
The teaching material has been published in the IEEE book “Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Things: Wireless Circuits, Systems and Networks”, 2018, Editor: Sergio Saponara, University of Pisa, Italy, ISBN: 9788793609747
The 2026 program will be similar to the last years’ program available at https://www.dii.unipi.it/node/2376/
ECTS: 6
Bachelor (last year), Master and PhD students, in the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Management) disciplines, early stage researchers and practitioners from Academia or Industry.