Development and Application of Methods and Algorithms to Smart Objects and Smart Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 23201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: artificial intelligence; applied intelligent systems; e-health platforms; exergames; smart objects
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Dear Colleagues,
A smart object is a cyber-physical device that combines its corporeal essence (i.e., the object) with software-based capabilities to provide novel functionalities. Miniaturization in electronics has boosted such technology, providing a huge variety of sensing circuits that can be embedded inside the most diverse objects. This, combined with onboard computing capability that supports intelligent behavior, processing, or allows smart sensors to communicate to a broader network of components in cloud-based AI infrastructures, makes objects smart.
A particular and interesting category of smart objects are smart sensors: objects common in everyday life are transformed into smart sensors with the capability of acquiring valuable data on the user and/or the environment; i.e., novel types of objects with embedded sensing capabilities could be developed to provide new functionalities.
Consequently, smart sensors have proven their potential and are becoming pervasive in many sectors, from automotive to health, from cultural heritage to industry, and from assisted living to smart environments.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, whose main goal is to collect reports on robust architectures and methods that leverage new possibilities offered by smart sensors and smart objects at large to provide novel, effective, and powerful sensing devices and methods.
For this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Specific research areas to be covered may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Real-time context awareness
- Proactive sensing abilities in smart sensors and in smart sensors networks
- Interaction and cooperation with IoT networks
- Reactivity and adaptability of smart sensors to environmental changes
- Longitudinal analysis of data from series of smart sensors
- Real-world application and trials
- Connectivity-based functionalities
- Learning in embedded smart sensors architectures
- Reasoning and decision-making
- Autonomy and self-management
- Development of novel smart sensors and smart objects
- Smart sensors with actuation capabilities
- Interdisciplinary application
- Anomaly detection
- Deep-learning application of smart sensors
- Activity recognition using smart sensors and smart sensor networks
- Humanlike interaction
- Connectivity and data transmission in hazardous environments
- Cloud-based architectures
- Cross-sensitivity and multimodal error modeling
- Energy and battery management
- Active and passive sensing methods
- Vision-based sensing methods
- Artificial olfaction
- Dispersed and pervasive functionality
- Performance tracking
- Security and privacy issues in using smart sensors
- Autonomous robotics and sensing
We welcome applications of smart sensors to diverse fields, from AI to industry.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Nunzio Alberto Borghese
Dr. Matteo Luperto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart sensors
- smart objects
- monitoring
- network of sensors
- Internet of Things
- pervasive monitoring
- smart sensor applications
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