Pietro Battistoni is ending his Ph.D. in Computer Science this year, 2021. He acquired an in-depth understanding of software and hardware development project lifecycles by over 30 years of field research professional work experience in industrial automation. Twentytwo years as owner of a privately held small company grant him experience in project management and technical skills in microcomputer-controlled system design, 3D CAD design, and electronic-CAD to develop hardware and firmware of electronic devices. Additional certified knowledge is in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Network Security, and Computer Forensics. His latest research interests are the IoT, distributed computing architectures and Edge Computing, Geo-Visual Analytics, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Robot Programming, Autonomous Vehicles, and Territorial Intelligence, accomplished with eighteen peer-review articles published in the lasts two years.