Joan Melià Seguí
Joan Melià Seguí, PhD

Associate Professor
Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació (EIMT)
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
C/ Rambla de Poblenou 156, 08018, Barcelona - Spain
Telephone: +34 93 450 5498
Email: melia (at) uoc (dot) edu
GPG/PGP public key: 18663184


Research interests


My research interests are broadly in improving technologies for Sustainability, including Passive RF Sensing, and Internet of Things.

If you are interested in the above topics, please take a look at the following available research lines.


I am always open to research collaborations!


Bio

I was born in Maó, Menorca, a beautiful island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. I did my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, and the M.Sc. Thesis at Mobile Communications department of Aalborg Universitet (Denmark).

After that period I worked as a RFID Project Engineer at AIDA Centre Company, while doing a M.Sc. in Information and Network Society at UOC. In 2008 I received a grant to join the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) as a graduate student, completing the Ph.D. Thesis in 2011. In 2011 I joined the DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, as Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher, and in 2012 I was Visiting Researcher at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, a Xerox Company). In 2014 I joined EIMT, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, where I am currently Associate Professor. In 2022 I was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Auto-ID Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Besides from my academic activity I co-founed the NGO Telecos Sense Fronteres (telecomms without borders), with the goal to improve the health and education systems of non-developed countries by means of communication technologies. Our last project was a communications system between health centers in south Nicaragua's Atlantic Region.
Publications [Google Scholar] [ORCID]

S. López-Soriano, J. Melià-Seguí and J. Parrón. UHF RFID Wristbands: A Long-Range, Durable, Flexible, and Low-Cost Tag Antenna Design. IEEE RFID Journal. ISSN: 2469-7281, IEEE, Early Access, February 2024.

J. Melià-Seguí, R. Bhattacharyya, S. López-Soriano, X. Vilajosana and S. Sarma. Low-cost RFID-based Sensor Integrated in Textile for Non-Invasive Pervasive Hydration Monitoring. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN: 1530-437X, IEEE, Early Access, December 2023.

G. Famitafreshi, M. S. Afaqui, and J. Melià-Seguí. Introducing reinforcement learning in the Wi-Fi MAC layer to support sustainable communications in e-Health scenarios. IEEE Access. ISSN: 2169-3536, Volume 11, Pages 126705-126723, Nov 2023.

S. López-Soriano, J. Melià-Seguí, and J. Parrón. A durable and flexible, low-cost tag antenna design for UHF RFID wearable applications. IEEE 13th International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA), Aveiro (Portugal), Sep 2023.

D. Suo, H. Li, R. Bhattacharyya, J. Melià-Seguí, and S. Sarma. RF-Enhanced Pavement Markings for Mobile Robot Lane Detection. IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Auckland (New Zealand), Aug 2023.

X. Vilajosana, G. Boquet, J. Melià-Seguí, P. Tuset, B. Martinez and F. Adelantado. Challenges and Opportunities for Simultaneous Multifunctional Wireless Networks in the UHF Band. IEEE Communications Magazine. ISSN: 0163-6804, Volume 61, Number 5, Pages 48-54, May 2023.

D. Suo, R. Bhattacharyya, J. Melià-Seguí, and S. Sarma. RFID-Enhanced Connected Lane Markings: Design Constraints and Requirements. IEEE Applied Sensing Conference, Bengalaru (India), Jan 2023.

J. Lejarreta-Andrés, J. Melià-Seguí, R. Bhattacharyya, X. Vilajosana and S. Sarma. Towards Low-cost RF-based Bulk Fabric Classification for the Textile Industry. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN: 1530-437X, Volume 22, Number 16, Pages 16586-16594, August 2022.

J. Melià-Seguí, I. Rojas, J. Lejarreta-Andrés and X. Vilajosana. Towards Measurement Range Extension of UHF RFID Temperature Sensors for Industrial Applications. IEEE International Conference on RFID, Las Vegas (USA), May 2022.

G. Famitafreshi, M.S. Afaqui and J. Melià-Seguí. Enabling Energy Harvesting-Based Wi-Fi System for an e-Health Application: A MAC Layer Perspective. Sensors. ISSN: 1424-8220, MDPI, Volume 22, Number 10, Page 3831, April 2022.

J. Lejarreta-Andrés, J. Melià-Seguí and X. Vilajosana. WiLD: Wireless Passive Moisture Sensing under Moving Conditions for Smart Manufacturing. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN: 1530-437X, IEEE, Volume 21, Number 17, Pages 19541-19549, September 2021.

G. Famitafreshi, M.S. Afaqui and J. Melià-Seguí. A Comprehensive Review on Energy Harvesting Integration in IoT Systems from MAC Layer Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities. Sensors. ISSN: 1424-8220, MDPI, Volume 21, Number 9, Pages 3097, April 2021.

M. Richardson, R.A. Sowah, J. Melià-Seguí, F.A. Katsriku, X. Vilajosana and W. Owusu-Banahene. Characterising foliage influence on LoRaWAN pathloss in a tropical vegetative environment. Wireless Sensor Systems. ISSN: 2043-6386, IET, Volume 10, Number 5, Pages 198-207, September 2020.

R. Parada, A. Palazó, C. Monzo and J. Melià-Seguí. RFID based embedded system for sustainable food management in an IoT network paradigm. Future Internet. ISSN: 1999-5903, MDPI, Volume 11, Number 9, 189, September 2019.

J. Melià-Seguí and X. Vilajosana. Ubiquitous moisture sensing in automaker industry based on standard UHF RFID tags. IEEE International Conference on RFID, Phoenix (USA), April 2019.

X. Vilajosana, J. Melià-Seguí. MOISTURE SENSORS. EU Patent EP18382616.3A. 17 August 2018.

R. Parada, J. Melià-Seguí and R. Pous. Anomaly Detection using RFID-based Information Management in an IoT Context. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. ISSN: 1546-2234, IGI-Global, Volume 30, Number 3, Pages 1-23, July 2018.

T. Adame, A. Bel, A. Carreras, J. Melià-Seguí, M. Oliver and R. Pous. CUIDATS: An RFID-WSN hybrid monitoring system for smart health care environments. Future Generation Computer Systems. ISSN: 0167-739X, Elsevier, Volume 78, Number 2, Pages 602-615, January 2018.

J. Melià-Seguí, E. Bart, R. Zhang and O. Brdiczka. An Empirical Approach for Fake User Detection in Location-based Social Networks. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. ISSN: 1876-1364, IOS Press, Volume 9, Number 6, Pages 643-657, November 2017.

Z. Rashid, J. Melià-Seguí, R. Pous and E. Peig. Using Augmented Reality and Internet of Things to Improve Accessibility of People with Motor Disabilities in the Context of Smart Cities. Future Generation Computer Systems. ISSN: 0167-739X, Elsevier, Volume 76, Pages 248-261, November 2017.

X. Vilajosana, C. Cano, P. Tuset, J. Melià-Seguí and F. Adelantado. The Wireless Technology Landscape in the Manufacturing Industry: A Reality Check. Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MCTT) Communications - Frontiers MMTC Communications - Frontiers, Special Issue on Multiple Wireless Technologies and IoT in Industry: Applications and Challenges. IEEE Communications Society, Vol. 12, No. 6, November 2017.

R. Parada, D. Cárdenes-Tacoronte, C. Monzo and J. Melià-Seguí. Internet of THings Area Coverage Analyzer (ITHACA) for Complex Topographical Scenarios. Symmetry. ISSN: 2073-8994, MDPI, Volume 9, Number 10, Article 237, October 2017.

F. Adelantado, X. Vilajosana, P. Tuset-Peiro, B. Martinez, J. Melià-Seguí and T. Watteyne. Understanding the limits of LoRaWAN. Communications Magazine. ISSN: 0163-6804, IEEE, Volume 55, Number 9, September 2017.

A. Mora-Carreño, J. Melià-Seguí and J. Arnedo-Moreno. Lessons learned on adult student engagement in an online gameful course. 1st Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning (GamiLearn'17), Gran Canaria (Spain), Jun 2017.

R. Parada and J. Melià-Seguí. Gesture Detection Using Passive RFID Tags to Enable People-Centric IoT Applications. Communications Magazine. ISSN: 0163-6804, IEEE, Volume 55, Number 2, Pages 56-61, February 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600701CM

C. Romero-Tris, J. Melià-Seguí and D. Megias. Protección de la privacidad en trayectorias para estudiar la propagación de epidemias. RECSI 2016, Menorca (Spain), Oct 2016.

R. Parada, K. Nur, J. Melià-Seguí and R. Pous. Smart Surface: RFID based gesture recognition system by applying k-means algorithm. International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2016, London, UK, Sept 2016.

R. Parada, J. Melià-Seguí and R. Pous. RFID based People-Object Direction of Pass Detection. International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2016, London, UK, Sept 2016.

R. Parada, J. Melià-Seguí and R. Pous. Evaluation and deployment of an industrial spring-based RFID reader antenna. 10th IEEE RFID Conference, Orlando (USA), May 2016.

R. Parada, J. Melià-Seguí, M. Morenza-Cinos, A. Carreras and R. Pous. Measuring User-object Interactions in IoT Spaces. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA 2015), IEEE, Tokyo (Japan), September 2015.The poster version of this paper won the [Best Poster & Demo Award Silver Prize]!

R. Parada, J. Melià-Seguí, M. Morenza-Cinos, A. Carreras and R. Pous. Towards Measuring User-object Interactions in IoT Spaces. 9th IEEE RFID Conference, San Diego (USA), April 2015.

Z. Rashid, J. Melią-Seguķ, R. Pous and E. Peig. Bridging Offline and Online World through Augmentable Smart Glass Interfaces. The 2nd International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR 2015). Lecce (Italy), August 2015.

R. Parada, J. Melią-Seguķ, M. Morenza-Cinos, A. Carreras, R. Pous. Using RFID to Detect Interactions in Ambient Assisted Living Environments. Intelligent Systems. ISSN: 1541-1672, IEEE, Volume 30, Number 4, Pages 16-22, July 2015. DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2015.43

J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomartí, J. Melià-Seguí. Remarks on Peinado et al.'s Analysis of J3Gen.Sensors. ISSN: 1424-8220, MDPI, Volume 15, Number 3, Pages 6217 - 6220, March 2015. DOI: 10.3390/s150306217

J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomartí, J. Melià-Seguí. Security and Privacy Concerns About the RFID Layer of EPC Gen2 Networks. In Advanced Research in Data Privacy, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, Volume 567, pp 303-324, 2015.

E. De Cristofaro, J. Melià-Seguí, R. Zhang, O. Brdiczka and E. Uzun. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DISTRIBUTED PRIVACY-PRESERVING COMPUTATIONS ON USER LOCATIONS. US Patent US8954737 B2. Publication Date: February 10th, 2015.

J. Melià-Seguí and R. Pous. Human-object Interaction Reasoning using RFID-enabled Smart Shelf. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2014), IEEE, Pages 37-42. Cambridge (USA), October 2014.[Preprint] [Slides]

Z. Rashid, E.Peig, R. Pous, and J. Melià-Seguí. Cricking: Browsing Physical Space with Smart Glass. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '14 Adjunct), Pages 151-154. Seattle (USA), September 2014.

Z. Rashid, M. Morenza-Cinos, R. Pous, and J. Melià-Seguí. Mobile Augmented Reality for Browsing Physical Spaces. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '14 Adjunct), Pages 155-158. Seattle (USA), September 2014.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. On the similarity of commercial EPC Gen2 pseudorandom number generators. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. ISSN: 2161-3915, Wiley-Blackwell, Volume 25, Number 2, Pages 151-154, February 2014. DOI: 10.1002/ett.2600.

J. Melià-Seguí, R. Pous, A. Carreras, M. Morenza-Cinos, R. Parada, Z. Liaghat, and R. De Porrata-Doria. Enhancing the shopping experience through RFID in an actual retail store. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct), Pages 1029-1036. Zurich (Switzerland), September 2013.

R. Pous, J. Melià-Seguí, A. Carreras, M. Morenza-Cinos, and Z. Rashid. Cricking: customer-product interaction in retail using pervasive technologies. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct), Pages 1023-1028. Zurich (Switzerland), September 2013.

Z. Liaghat, J. Melià-Seguí, R. Pous, and R. De Porrata-Doria. Consumer experience modeling and enrichment using RFID. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct), Pages 247-250. Zurich (Switzerland), September 2013. [Poster]

R. Parada, A. Carreras, J. Melià-Seguí and R. Pous. Study of a monopulse system with RFID antennas for applications oriented to retail industry. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct), Pages 279-282. Zurich (Switzerland), September 2013. [Poster]

A. Carreras, M. Morenza-Cinos, R. Pous, J. Melià-Seguí, K. Nur, J. Oliver, and R. De Porrata-Doria. STORE VIEW: pervasive RFID and indoor navigation based retail inventory management. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct), Pages 1037-1042. Zurich (Switzerland), September 2013.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. J3Gen: A PRNG for Low-Cost Passive RFID. Sensors. ISSN: 1424-8220, MDPI, Volume 13, Number 3, Pages 3816 - 3830, March 2013. DOI: 10.3390/s130303816.

J. Dacuna, J. Melià-Seguí, R. Pous. Multi-tag spatial multiplexing in UHF RFID systems. Electronics Express. ISSN: 1349-2543, IEICE, Volume 9, Number 21, Pages 1701 - 1706, December 2012. DOI: 10.1587/elex.9.1701.

J. Melià-Seguí, R. Zhang, E. Bart, B. Price, O. Brdiczka. Activity duration analysis for context-aware services using foursquare check-ins. Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Self-aware Internet of Things, co-located with the 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012), Pages 13 - 18. San Jose, California (USA), September 2012.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. Multiple-Polynomial LFSR based Pseudorandom Number Generator for EPC Gen2 RFID Tags. 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2011), Pages 3820 - 3825. Melbourne (Australia), November 2011.

J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti, J. Melià-Seguí. Practical Eavesdropping of Control Data From EPC Gen2 Queries With a Programmable RFID Toolkit. Hakin9, Volume 6, Number 9, Pages 14 - 19, September 2011.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. Pseudorandomness in EPC Gen2 Commercial Tags: A Preliminary Analysis. 7th Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy 2011 (RFIDSec11). Massachusetts (USA). Poster Session.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. A Practical Implementation Attack on Weak Pseudorandom Number Generator Designs for EPC Gen2 Tags. Journal of Wireless Personal Communications. ISSN: 0929-6212, Springer, Volume 59, Number 1, Pages 27 - 42, July 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s11277-010-0187-1.

J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti, J. Melià-Seguí. A Multiple-Polynomial LFSR based Pseudorandom Number Generator Design for EPC Gen2 Systems. Mitacs Workshop on Network Security and Cryptography, Mitacs Focus Period. Toronto (Canada), June 2010.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. Clasificación  de las amenazas a la seguridad en sistemas RFID – EPC Gen2. In XI Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (Cryptography and Information Security Spanish Meeting). Tarragona, September 2010.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. RFID EPC-Gen2 for Postal Applications: A Security and Privacy Survey. IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technology and Applications 2010 (RFID-TA2010), Pages 118-123. Guangzhou (China), June 2010.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Garcia-Alfaro, J. Herrera-Joancomarti. Analysis and Improvement of a Pseudorandom Number Generator for EPC Gen2 Tags. LNCS, vol. 6054 Financial Cryptography and Data Security Workshops, Springer, Pages 34-46. Tenerife (Spain), January 2010.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Herrera-Joancomarti i J. García-Alfaro, EPC-RFID Security and Privacy for Postal Sector, RFIDSec Asia, Taipei (Taiwan), January 2009.

J. Melià-Seguí, J. Herrera-Joancomarti, and J. Garcia-Alfaro. Analisis de Seguridad y Privacidad para Sistemas EPC-RFID en el Sector Postal. In X Reunión Española sobre Criptología y Seguridad de la Información (Cryptography and Information Security Spanish Meeting), Salamanca, September 2008.

B. Gampl, S. Lange, M. Holweger, J. Melià-Seguí and A. Uestuen. Analysis of guidelines for RFID implementation: status and recommendations. 4th WP, CE-RFID European Community Funded Project, June 2008. Site: http://www.rfid-in-action.eu/ [pdf]

GS1 Germany et al. Textile Industry Business Application. 7th WP, BRIDGE (Building Radio Frequency IDentification for the Global Environment) European Community Funded Project, Task 7.2 Requirements Analysis, 2007. Site: http://www.bridge-project.eu/ [pdf]

J. Melià-Seguí, D. Pérez-Álvarez, A. Porros-Pérez. Context Aware Routing System in an Indoor Scenario. Master Thesis, Mobile Communications department, Aalborg University, Denmark, June 2005.


Updated February 2024 - Joan Melià-Seguí