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Holger Jorge Santillan Carranza
20182025

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The researcher pursues an integrative, application-driven program spanning environmental sensing, smart infrastructure, and digital security. Across weather-monitoring platforms, emergency intercom systems, and IoT-enabled assets, the work emphasizes real-time data acquisition, robust visualization, and user-centered interfaces using accessible hardware (FPGA, Raspberry Pi, Arduino) and common software environments (LabVIEW, Node-RED). Methodologies blend sensor fusion and Edge/IoT networks with practical validation: empirical accuracy metrics (e.g., 85% accuracy, RMSE 0.2 °C/1.5% humidity), rapid response times for safety-critical alerts (around 1.2 s), and end-to-end demonstrations from data collection to visualization and cloud-based access. Several studies also address resilience and security in cyber-physical contexts, employing vulnerability assessments, phishing simulations, and standardized scoring (CVSS) to identify critical weaknesses and prioritize improvements. A notable thread links renewable energy and grid reliability with optimization techniques (PSO-based) to reduce outages and optimize solar integration, illustrating a systems-level approach to reliability and sustainability. Overall impact centers on democratizing technology-enabled monitoring and safety, while outlining concrete paths for enhancement in sensing accuracy, security hardening, and grid-aware optimization. This synthesis positions the researcher as a capable liaison between hardware prototyping, real-time data visualization, and applied cybersecurity and energy optimization.

Key Topics:
  • Smart Grids, IoT, Edge/Fog & Industry 4.0
  • Sensors, Instrumentation & Measurement Systems
  • Environmental Monitoring, Remote Sensing & Conservation
  • Cybersecurity, Privacy, Trust & Blockchain
  • Agriculture, Precision Farming, Food Systems & Agroecology
  • Power Systems, Renewable Energy & Microgrids
  • Education, Pedagogy, Teacher Training & Inclusion

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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