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Researcher, IoT programmer and developer at Wave Labs (https://wave-labs.org), an R&D group for crafting marine technologies of MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, hosted at the Regional Agency for the Development of Research, Technology and Innovation (ARDITI) in Madeira Island. Informatics Engineering Master's Student at the University of Madeira (UMa) with professional technical training and several years of experience in Electronics and Telecommunications. Currently, I am responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining marine sensing devices and surveying systems with logging and telemetry capabilities using IoT and associated technologies. Within Wave Labs, I was responsible for the development of custom low-cost marine biotelemetry capable of performing data logging in high-depths (>1500m - 150 bar) environment for the INTERTAGUA - Interfaces Aquáticas Interativas para Deteção e Visualização da Megafauna Marinha Atlântica e Embarcações na Macaronésia usando Marcadores Rádio-transmissores, with grant no. MAC2/1.1.a /385 by Programa de Cooperación INTERREG V-A España-Portugal MAC (Madeira-Azores-Canarias) 2014-2020. Produced tag (TRITON) was based on Long-Range (LoRa) communication and was used as a proof of concept on marine megafauna (sea turtles and greater whales), reaching the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5-6. TRITON has been used with a custom-made telemetry pipeline based on assisted GPS and pseudoranging, allowing marine scientists to interpret the position of the tags at the sea surface. It has also been demonstrated in Macaronesia Islands (Madeira, Canary, Azores and Cabo Verde) as well as in two conferences, the International Symposium of Marine Sciences (ISMS) and European Cetacean Society (EC).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Artur da Silva Pestana

Citation names

  • Pestana, João Artur
  • Pestana, João
  • J Pestana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9E17-C5CC-E299
ORCID iD
0009-0005-9870-6224
Google Scholar ID
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Email addresses

  • joao.pestana@mare.arditi.pt (Professional)
  • joao@wave-labs.org (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/10 - 2023/07
Ongoing
Engenharia Informática (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia, Portugal
2016/09 - 2020/09
Concluded
Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia, Portugal
2020/06 - 2020/08
Concluded
Summer school in scientific research methodologies and techniques (Outros)
Major in Scientific research
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2005/08 - 2008/07
Concluded
Electronics and Telecommunications Professional Technician (Ensino secundário)
Major in Electronics and Telecommunications
Escola Profissional Cristovão Colombo, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/03 - Current Researcher (Research) Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
2020/08 - 2020/11 Research Trainee (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
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Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/02 - 2022/08 IoT Programmer and develover Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
2019/06 - 2019/08 IoT Programmer and develover - Trainee Universidade da Madeira Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
2015/05 - 2015/12 Electrician's assistant Domodelta - Instalações Eletrotécnicas Unipessoal, Lda, Portugal
2009/11 - 2013/07 Telecommunications technician self-employed, Portugal
2009/09 - 2010/02 Qualified Electronics and Telecommunications Professional Sicaprep (Madeira) Montagem de Matérias Elétricos, Eletrónicos e Telecomunicações, Lda, Portugal
2008/12 - 2009/08 Electronics and Telecommunications Professional Trainee Sicaprep (Madeira) Montagem de Matérias Elétricos, Eletrónicos e Telecomunicações, Lda, Portugal
2008/05 - 2008/07 Electronics Intern Sinosom-Eletrodomésticos, Lda., Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/02 - 2022/08 INTERTAGUA - Interfaces for Detecting and Visualizing Marine Megafauna
Technical development
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Interreg Europe
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Radeta, Marko; Pestana, João ; Abreu, P.; Ana Dinis; Thomas Dellinger ; Alves, Filipe; Fernandez, Marc; Silvana Neves; Eric Delory. "Low-cost biotelemetry tracker and location estimation pipeline for cetacean monitoring". Paper presented in 34th Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2023, 2023.
  2. Radeta, Marko; Fernandez, Marc; Alves, Filipe; Pestana, João ; et al. "Low-cost biotelemetry tracker for marine megafauna monitoring". Paper presented in VIII International Symposium on Marine Sciences 2022 (ISMS), 2022.
Journal article
  1. Marko Radeta; Claudio Rodrigues; Francisco Silva; Pedro Abreu; João Pestana; Ngoc Thi Nguyen; Agustin Zuniga; Huber Flores; Petteri Nurmi. "Lost in the Deep?". Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (2023): https://doi.org/10.1145/3596245.
    10.1145/3596245
Preprint
  1. Radeta, Marko; Pestana, João; Abreu, Pedro; Sousa, Louis; Ramos, Antonio; Pinto, Pedro; Noronha, Hildegardo; Lopez, Jorge; Azevedo, Victor. "TRITON -Tracker for Real-time Telemetry". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.170111049.94688074/v1.
    10.22541/au.170111049.94688074/v1

Other

Physical object
  1. Marko Radeta; Abreu, Pedro; Prieto, Rui; Thomas Dellinger ; Pestana, João. "Low-Cost Biotelemetry Tags". 2022. Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Ilha da Madeira.