Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks

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Security and Smart Applications in IoT and Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks

edited by

Donald Elmazi

and Elis Kulla

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 41224 | Submission Open

Keywords: security and privacy; Internet of Everything (IoE); intelligent algorithms; Internet of Things (IoT); Actuator Networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wireless Control Networks)

Federated Learning: Applications and Future Directions

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 35916 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; machine learning; IoT; Industry 4.0; security; edge; intrusion detection; blockchain; smart grids

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks: Innovations and Future Trends

edited by

Dionisis Kandris

Eleftherios Anastasiadis

and

Purav Shah

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 17 articles | Viewed by 38234 | Submission Open

Keywords: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs); healthcare applications; environmental applications; military applications; athletic applications; agricultural applications; structural health monitoring; environmental monitoring applications; industrial applications; smart life applications; habitat applications; power system applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wireless Control Networks)

Recent Advances in Industrial Network Security

edited by Sabeen Tahir, Sheikh Tahir Bakhsh and

Xu-An Wang

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 254 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial network security; industrial IoT (IIoT); cyber– physical systems (CPS); AI-powered threat detection; blockchain-based solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Security and Privacy)

AI and IoT Convergence for Sustainable Smart Manufacturing

edited by

Chun-Cheng Lin

and

Tony Huang

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9573 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable smart manufacturing; environmental; social; and governance (ESG) standards; industry 4.0; artificial intelligence (AI); internet of things (IoT); sensors and actuators; energy distribution and management; mathemtical and computational modelling; machine/deep learning; deployment and scheduling; wireless energy harvesting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Actuators, Sensors and Devices)

Fault Diagnosis in the Internet of Things Applications

edited by

Fabrizio De Vita

and

Giovanni Cicceri

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 32708 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault diagnosis; anomaly detection; Industry 4.0; IoT; edge computing; cloud computing; deep learning; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Services and Applications)

AI-Assisted Machine-Environment Interaction

edited by

Manolo Dulva Hina

and

Amar Ramdane-Cherif

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13341 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; machine-environment interaction; human-computer interaction; intelligent machines; intelligent transportation; computational intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

IoT and Networking Technologies for Smart Mobile Systems

edited by

Chengwen Luo

Xingyu Feng

and

Chao Fan

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); smart mobile systems; 5G/6G networks; mobile edge computing (MEC); low-power sensing and communication; artificial intelligence (AI) in IoT; task offloading; QoS Optimization; backscatter-based sensing and networking; Industrial IoT (IIoT)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications and Networking)

Feature Papers in the Section of Network Security and Privacy

edited by

Jordi Mongay Batalla

Pascal Lorenz

and

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2787 | Submission Open

Keywords: security and privacy; key agreement protocols; cryptography; security of ICT infrastructures; confidentiality; integrity and availability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Security and Privacy)

Remote Sensing and IoT Application for Smart Agriculture

edited by

Xihai Zhang

Xiangyu Meng

and

Yuan Rao

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 986 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge AI in agriculture; hyperspectral crop diagnostics; blockchain traceability; agricultural wireless sensor networks; drone-based crop mapping; agricultural robotics; smart farms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Network Services and Applications)

Collaborative Integrated Sensing and Localization in Autonomous Systems

edited by

Tanveer Ahmad

, Xuejun Li and

Muhammad Usman Hadi

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open

Keywords: drones; UAV; autonomous systems; localization; vehicle; edge computing; distributed computing; GPS; AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Actuators, Sensors and Devices)

Selected Papers from "The 1st International Online Conference on Sensor and Actuator Networks"

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 318 | Submission Open

Keywords: WSAN; Internet-of-Things; blockchain; 5G/6G; Industry 4.0; wearable sensors; smart agriculture; smart cities; smart health and medical care; mobile systems

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