Smart Electromagnetic Environment

In a SEME, the environment is no more an obstacle to wireless signals, but instead enables controlling and tailoring the propagation of electromagnetic waves

Discover SEME

SEME Applications

Communications, Sensing, Localization, Wireless Power Transfer, and Metaverse

SEME Devices

Electromagnetic Skins, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Smart Repeaters, IAB Nodes, and gNB

SEME Methodologies

Network Planning, Evolutionary Maintenance, and Failure Compensation through Artificial Intelligence and Optimization

SEME Technologies

Flexible and Optically-Transparent Materials, MEMS, 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Microstrip, and Smart Coating

Research Highlights
  • The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to promote the invited talk by Prof. OLIVERI, entitled G. Oliveri, G. Gottardi, M. A. Hannan, and A. Massa, “EM Skin Engineering for Smart EM Environments”,Models and Methods in Wave Propagation Workshop (MMWP 2026), Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, February 16-21, 2026. to be presented tomorrow, February 17, at the Models and Methods in Wave Propagation Workshop, held in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. The talk will discuss recent advances in the synthesis and exploitation of wave manipulation devices, with…

  • The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce the ZJU-ELEDIA Summer School “Green Electromagnetic Spectrum – From Physical Limits of Information to Integrated Communications, Sensing, and Power Transfer.” The school will take place from July 23 to August 5, 2026, at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Participants will explore the deep integration of communications, sensing, and wireless power transfer, addressing the technologies required to build a zero-power, zero-blind-spot, and energy-self-sufficient digital world. Program Highlights: Electromagnetic Information Theory (July 23–24) Integrated…

  • The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that on Friday January 9th we had the privilege to contribute to the DEMO METACELESTINI Event at Villa Griffone in Sasso Marconi – the historic site where Guglielmo Marconi performed his pioneering wireless transmission experiments back in 1895. The DEMO focused on the functional testing of a wireless link established between Villa Griffone and the Collina dei Celestini featuring an ELEDIA-designed and fabricated Electromagnetic Skin (EMS) prototype, developed within the framework of the project “ELECTROMAGNETIC SKIN MACROSCOPIC…

  • The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that a new paper — the result of a fruitful collaboration with Loughborough University (Prof. W. WHITTOW and Dr. A. BANSAL)  — has been published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation (JSTEAP): L. Poli, A. Bansal, G. Oliveri, A. A. Salas-Sanchez, W. Whittow, and A. Massa, “Time-modulated EM skins for integrated sensing and communications,” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation – Issue…

  • The ELEDIA Research Center is pleased to announce that Prof. Giacomo OLIVERI will deliver a Virtual Keynote Talk hosted by the IEEE APS Student Branch Chapter at IIT Jodhpur (India), in collaboration with the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Jodhpur. His talk, titled “EM Skin Engineering for Smart EM Environments”, will explore the design of innovative electromagnetic (EM) skins and their role in shaping the next generation of smart, reconfigurable EM environments, a frontier area in modern electromagnetics and…

  • Yesterday, Dr. Aarón Ángel Salas SÁNCHEZ (ELEDIA@UniTN – DICAM) presented a talk titled “An Inverse Source Approach to Inexpensive Static Passive EMS Design” as part of the session on “Design and Characterization of Microwave Metadevices” at the Metamaterials’2025 – 19th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena held in Amsterdam.

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