Autonomous Low Power Monitoring Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 3138
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Interests: mobile robots; multi-agent systems; Internet; artificial intelligence; remotely operated vehicles; road safety; road vehicles; traffic engineering computing; Internet of Things; automobiles; autonomous aerial vehicles
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Interests: Signal processing; medical technologies; medical sensors
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Dear Colleagues,
Geo-distributed autonomous low-power sensing nodes – e.g., wireless sensor networks (WSN) and Internet of Things (IoT) networks - are harbouring more autonomous capabilities in the concepts of Internet of Everything (IoE) and Automation of Everything (AoE) [1] to serve more intelligent multiple larger synergistic cyber-physical systems (CPS) that perform more complex autonomous tasks by removing the human out of the loop [2]. They can be useful for scientific works, such as to build reliable climate models, by providing continuous series of some in-situ environment variables over years at high frequency (e.g. soil moisture in a catchment at 1 point/10 min). Due to spatial heterogeneity variables have to be retrieved at different points, which requires a network of such sensors over large area (> 1 km2 every 100 m)
However, the capabilities of sensor nodes within these domains and others are still highly limited concerning energy, storage, processing, sensing coverage, measurement quality, robustness, communication with risk of loss of data (e.g., network connectivity, low data rate in low-powered wide-area network (LPWAN)), latency, costs and cybersecurity [5]. These limitations, or contradictory requirements, need to be mitigated, partly or not depending on the sensor purpose. Moreover, energy-efficient deployment and data routing of low-power sensor nodes to lessen their energy consumption is of prime importance for prolonging their own network lifetime. With these in mind, this Special Issue covers topics related to autonomous resource-constraint sensor nodes, particularly, focuses on research attempts to improve their capabilities with increasing autonomous abilities leading to efficient adaption to their environment and meeting the different requirements.
We would like to invite the academic and industrial research community to submit original research as well as review articles to this Special Issue. Topics of interest include:
Main Topics:
-low cost sensor
– quality measurement
– rugged autonomous sensor
- Autonomous resource-constraint sensor nodes
- Design and development of autonomous low-power sensors
- Energy-efficient deployment and data routing of low-power sensor nodes
- WSN communication topology
- Intelligent energy harvesting (EH) in autonomous low power monitoring sensors
- Self-prognosis, self-diagnosis and self-healing autonomous monitoring sensors
- Sensor networks
- Lifespan of a sensor network
- Multi low-power sensor integration
- End-to-end wireless communication of autonomous monitoring sensors
- Mobile data collection sinks in sensor networks
- Cybersecurity in sensors
- Miniaturized sensors
- Autonomous health monitoring (i.e., fault diagnosis) of remotely performing critical devices (e.g., power outage avoidance systems, condition monitoring of wind turbines or railways)
- Medical and biomedical sensing with low-power sensors
- Implementation of wireless sensors in urban environment, industry, agriculture, remote observatory
- Implementation of low-power sensors in the cloud and edge computing
- Indoor implementation of wireless sensors (e.g, security, fire monitoring, energy efficiency of buildings and structures)
- Disaster management using low-power sensors (flood, earthquake, tsunami)
- Computational intelligence in sensors
- Big data management in geo-distributed sensors
- Intelligent vision-based low-power sensors
Dr. Kaya Kuru
Prof. Dr. Osman Erogul
Dr. Xavier Chavanne
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Low-power sensors
- Sensor networks
- Lifetime of sensor network
- Sensors signal processing
- Sensor fusion
- Environmental monitoring
- Wireless power transfer (WPT)
- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
- Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Smart City (SC)
- Hotspots
- Energy-hole problem
- Buffer overflow
- Mobile sinks
- Multi-hop communication
- low-powered wide-area network (LPWAN)
- Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT)
- Wearable sensors
- Bio-inspired sensors
- Biomedical sensors
- Electrochemical sensors
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