Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and IoT

Dear Colleagues,

The possibilities of the Internet of Things (IoT) cover a large number of fields: from mobility to urban planning, from Industry 4.0 to the connected home. As such, the deployment of IoT promises to expand the possibilities of multiple areas of activity.

On the other hand, the fast development of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) industry and the reduction in the cost of these devices has derived in their adoption on a wide variety of fields, such as agriculture, surveillance, aerial photography, fire detection, etc.

This Special Issue is aimed at the two interrelated communities of IoT and Drones. We are interested in articles that focus on all aspects of the application of UAVs making use of IoT technologies. These include but are not limited to:

• IoT sensors for UAVs;
• Navigation technology;
• UAV path-planning and trajectory optimization for energy efficiency;
• Architectures, protocols, frameworks and applications of IoT for UAVs;
• Security and privacy for IoT in UAVs;
• Swarms of drones that offer efficiency and robustness in performing complex tasks;
• Battery and energy management in UAV-based networks;
• Energy-aware SDN for UAV networks;
• Other topics—recognition of objects, path planning, collision avoidance, communication technique, robustness against disturbances, applying machine learning, etc.

We look forward to receiving your contributions and getting a Special Issue that represents the growing community of scientists involved in IoT using unmanned aerial systems.

Dr. Enrique Moguel
Dr. Jaime Galán-Jiménez
Guest Editors

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