Professor Luiz Bittencourt, SMARTNESS researcher, received CISB funding to attend WARA-PS 2024 in Sweden, where he presented a demo on drone management using edge computing. He also visited Linköping University, held technical meetings at Saab, and visited Ericsson Research in Stockholm.

On September 4th, Ericsson Brazil organized the Ericsson Research Day 2024 event at its headquarters in Indaiatuba. Dr. Maria Valéria Marquezini presented the history of over 25 years and the current landscape of Ericsson's research partnerships in Brazil. Dr. Mateus Santos highlighted the main areas of focus for the team of researchers based in Indaiatuba.

On September 3rd, SMARTNESS received two technical visits at its main lab at FEEC/UNICAMP. During the morning, we had the honor of receiving a delegation of representatives from Ericsson Research, led by Dr. Magnus Frodigh - VP and Head of Ericsson Research. Presentations and discussions touched the vision of 6G and the onvoing research activities. In the afternoon, SMARTNESS received the visit of the UFPA research group led by Prof. Aldebaro. Opportunities of collaboration around joint research interests were discussed, resulting in impact actions ahead.