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Francesca Righetti is a researcher whose work bridges the domains of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart city technologies, and industrial wireless networking. Her most widely cited contribution, "IoT Applications in Smart Cities: A Perspective Into Social and Ethical Issues" (2018, 33 citations), examines how interconnected devices are reshaping urban environments while raising critical questions about privacy, ethics, and governance — concerns increasingly central to modern technology policy. Beyond smart cities, Righetti has developed a focused research thread around Industrial IoT, particularly addressing a significant gap in the widely adopted 6TiSCH architecture: its lack of native mobility management. Her papers "Mobility Management in Industrial IoT Environments" (2022, 7 citations) and the follow-up "Mobility Management in TSCH-Based Industrial Wireless Networks" (2024, 10 citations) propose solutions for supporting mobile devices such as robots and wearables within industrial settings. Complementing this work, she developed Mobile6TiSCH, a dedicated simulator enabling researchers to model and test mobility-aware IIoT networks. With a growing citation record across both applied and foundational topics, Righetti represents an emerging voice in next-generation connected systems research.