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Advanced Sensing Technology and Data Analytics for Power Equipment Security and Energy System

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 243

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School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chonqing 400044, China
Interests: electrical equipment monitoring; advanced sensing; measurement; electromagnetic calculation
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School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chonqing 400044, China
Interests: energy systems; sensors; electromagnetic measurement; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, titled “Advanced Sensing Technology and Data Analytics for Power Equipment Security and Energy System”, focuses on innovative sensing technologies and data-driven approaches to enhance the security, reliability, and efficiency of smart grids. It invites research on topics such as advanced sensors, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics for grid monitoring, fault detection, cyber-physical security, and optimization of energy systems.

This Special Issue therefore aims to put together cutting-edge research and innovative solutions in advanced sensing technologies, data analytics, and cybersecurity frameworks for power equipment and energy systems.

Potential topics of interest include the following:

  • Advanced sensing;
  • Data analytics;
  • Cybersecurity;
  • Energy systems;
  • Fault detection;
  • Machine learning;
  • Artificial intelligence;
  • Big data;
  • Predictive analytics;
  • Energy optimization;
  • Renewable integration;
  • Cyber-physical systems;
  • Internet of Things (IoT);
  • Real-time monitoring;
  • Smart sensors;
  • Intelligent control systems.

Prof. Dr. Jingang Wang
Dr. Pengcheng Zhao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • advanced sensing
  • data analytics
  • cybersecurity
  • energy systems
  • fault detection
  • machine learning
  • artificial intelligence
  • big data
  • predictive analytics
  • energy optimization
  • renewable integration
  • cyber-physical systems
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • real-time monitoring
  • smart sensors
  • intelligent control systems

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A Position- and Similarity-Aware Named Entity Recognition Model for Power Equipment Maintenance Work Orders
by Ziming Wei, Shaocheng Qu, Li Zhao, Qianqian Shi and Chen Zhang
Sensors 2025, 25(7), 2062; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25072062 - 26 Mar 2025
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Power equipment maintenance work orders are vital in power equipment management because they contain detailed information such as equipment specifications, defect reports, and specific maintenance activities. However, due to limited research into automated information extraction, valuable operational and maintenance data remain underutilized. A [...] Read more.
Power equipment maintenance work orders are vital in power equipment management because they contain detailed information such as equipment specifications, defect reports, and specific maintenance activities. However, due to limited research into automated information extraction, valuable operational and maintenance data remain underutilized. A key challenge is recognizing unstructured Chinese maintenance texts filled with specialized and abbreviated terms unique to the power sector. Existing named entity recognition (NER) solutions often fail to effectively manage these complexities. To tackle this, this paper proposes a NER model tailored to power equipment maintenance work orders. First, a dataset called power equipment maintenance work orders (PE-MWO) is constructed, which covers seven entity categories. Next, a novel position- and similarity-aware attention module is proposed, where an innovative position embedding method and attention score calculation are designed to improve the model’s contextual understanding while keeping computational costs low. Further, with this module as the main body, combined with the BERT-wwm-ext and conditional random field (CRF) modules, an efficient NER model is jointly constructed. Finally, validated on the PE-MWO and five public datasets, our model shows high accuracy in recognizing power sector entities, outperforming comparative models on public datasets. Full article
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