Novel Research on Optical and Wireless Sensors for Industrial Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 2456
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical sensors; fiber optics sensors; optical diagnostics and sensing; spectroscopy; Industry 4.0 plant; localization; RFID; WiFi; WLAN; positioning; asset tracking; traffic monitoring
Interests: sensor network; internet of things; cellular; electromagnetic compatibility (EMC); radiowave propagation
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Dear Colleagues,
The rapid progress in the photonic, electronic and wireless technologies during the past 20 years has turned the idea of sensing into its own scientific domain. Although the quality of our everyday lives has been greatly increased due to the widespread use of sensors, it is the industry that benefits from it even more. Indeed, the use of optical fiber-based devices and allowed to introduce the precision of photonic sensing in a very compact and robust package into harsh environments, while 5G technologies, Internet of Things and other modern network concepts allow to transmit and exchange the gathered data, increasing the overall level of information about the monitored processes, devices, areas and so on. The combination of these techniques and systems has ushered our modern plants and companies into the Industry 4.0 era, in which various production and servicing processes rely on sensors interfacing the world of physical phenomena with that of human perception. The amount of information thus created requires from the underlying information and communication systems features such as: effective techniques for big data management and reasoning, ultra-reliable and low-latency transmission as well as precise positioning capabilities.
This issue aims to discuss and present recent developments in sensing techniques especially attractive from the industrial point of view. Topics like distributed sensors and sensor networks, environmental sensing, wireless monitoring, sensing devices and techniques, non-GPS positioning or big data management are of particular interest, however, other industry-sensing oriented research papers are also welcome for submission.
Dr. Boguslaw Szczupak
Prof. Kamil Staniec
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical and wireless sensors
- optical fiber sensing
- optical diagnostics and sensing
- IoT sensors for industrial applications
- spectroscopy for industrial applications
- big data, cloud computing, machine learning
- computer vision
- smart grid computing
- supply chain management
