Keila Lima

Postdoc @ GSSI

IoT Software and Data Engineering

I have been investigating and experimenting with fixed and mobile autonomous sensing systems in constrained environments, such as those found in underwater and space application domains. I have been engineering the collective behavior and integration of these autonomous systems into more complex, composed systems to enable seamless control and data provision.

Common communication protocols are needed to enable seamless control and data flows among and with IoT systems components, assuring syntactic interoperability. Complementary to ensuring a common understanding of commands and data exchanged, there is a need for shared vocabularies to facilitate semantic interoperability.

Data Flow and Quality in SDLC

While conducting research on engineering IoT systems and the data they provide, other research topics emerged, such as incorporating data quality into Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC). As systems become more data-dependent, the different quality attributes of data, such as accuracy or precision, also start having a significant impact on the resulting decision-making systems driven by these data.

Get in touch if you want to collaborate or discuss any of these research topics of interest.

Marine Tech

I have started my Research and Development (R&D) career in marine robotics, being part of a multidisciplinary laboratory in Portugal that was in the vanguard of the development, integration, and deployment of Light Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (LAUV), Underwater Surface Vehicles (USV), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), drifting buoys, and communication gateways. During these 4.5 years, I have developed a strong domain knowledge of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) and gained practical fieldwork experience.

Furthermore, my knowledge in the marine technology domain expanded during my PhD, which was funded and part of the SFI Smart Ocean consortium in Norway. Within the consortium, I collaborated with multiple organizations, serving as part of the team that architected and integrated marine sensor data from various vendors.

These past experiences have provided me with an in-depth understanding of both underwater mobile and fixed systems, as well as their applications in various contexts.

More details can be found in:

Research Data

Links to studies and field trials which I have participated on the data collection:

Field Operations

Below is a map showing the locations of robotic field experiments, survey services, and fixed prototypes. Most of these works were conducted between 2017 and 2021, while I was working at LSTS and ISR-Porto, and more recently, in Norway.