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Sensors, Volume 26, Issue 7

2026 April-1 - 21 articles

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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access

Vertex: A Semantic Graph-Based Indoor Navigation System with Vision-Language Landmark Verification

  • Isabel Ferri-Molla,
  • Dena Bazazian,
  • Marius N. Varga,
  • Jordi Linares-Pellicer and
  • Joan Albert Silvestre-Cerdà
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2031;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072031 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Older adults often need guidance when visiting new buildings for the first time. However, indoor navigation remains challenging due to the lack of Global Positioning System (GPS) availability, visually repetitive corridors, and frequent location fail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2029;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072029 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Safety monitoring in container hoisting operations within rail-road intermodal logistics parks is a critical task in industrial safety management. Such scenarios are characterized by complex environments, large variations in target scales, deformable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2030;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072030 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

To address the challenges in drone aerial image target detection—including the loss of critical information on small objects during multiple subsampling operations, the disappearance of minute target features, and insufficient detection accurac...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access

Sensor-Based Technologies for the Detection of Unwanted Loneliness in Older Adults: A Systematic Review

  • María Mercedes Párraga Vico,
  • Juana María Morcillo Martínez,
  • Juan F. Gaitán-Guerrero,
  • Juan Luis Herreros Bódalo,
  • Macarena Espinilla Estévez and
  • Juan Carlos Cuevas Martínez
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2028;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072028 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Background: Unwanted loneliness and social isolation in older adults are public health problems with negative effects on physical and mental health. The usual assessment tools, based on self-report questionnaires, have limitations in capturing these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2026;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072026 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Precise 3D reconstruction of non-cooperative space targets is a prerequisite for active debris removal and on-orbit servicing. However, this task is impeded by severe environmental challenges. Specifically, the limited dynamic range of visible light...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2027;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072027 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Motor vehicle encroachment into non-motorized lanes is a common but hard-to-verify violation in urban intersections, especially when monitored from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or high-mounted overhead views. Existing rule-based solutions built on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2025;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072025 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

The need for Structural Health Monitoring is evident in order to ensure the safety of civil infrastructure. The goal of vibration monitoring is to derive the eigenfrequencies, mode shapes and damping of a structure. A change in the eigenfrequency ove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2024;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072024 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

As modern power systems grow increasingly complex, there is a pressing need for stability analysis methods capable of handling nonlinear dynamics while providing physically meaningful and reliable stability indices. Port-Hamiltonian (PH) frameworks h...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Real-Time Digital Twin Architecture for Immersive Industrial Automation Training

  • Jessica S. Ortiz,
  • Víctor H. Andaluz and
  • Christian P. Carvajal
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2023;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072023 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

Industrial automation laboratories often face limitations related to restricted access to industrial equipment, safety constraints, and limited scalability for hands-on experimentation. To address these challenges, this work proposes a real-time mult...

  • Review
  • Open Access
Sensors2026, 26(7), 2022;https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072022 
(registering DOI)

24 March 2026

The ability to autonomously navigate and explore complex 3D environments in a purposeful manner, while integrating visual perception with natural language interaction in a human-like way, represents a longstanding research objective in Artificial Int...

  • Article
  • Open Access

A Kyber-Based Lightweight Cloud-Assisted Authentication Scheme for Medical IoT

  • He Yan,
  • Zhenyu Wang,
  • Liuming Lin,
  • Jing Sun and
  • Shuanggen Liu

24 March 2026

The Medical Internet of Things (MIoT) has promoted smart healthcare through the deep integration of wearable devices, wireless communication, and cloud services. However, this framework faces security risks, as attackers may exploit public channels t...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

Non-invasive assessment of tissue water content is clinically relevant for edema detection, fluid management, and monitoring of local inflammation. In the short-wave infrared (SWIR), water exhibits strong absorption near 1450 nm with a secondary band...

  • Article
  • Open Access

A Solution for Heritage Monitoring Based on Wireless Low-Cost Sensors and BIM: Application to the Monserrate Palace

  • Rita Machete,
  • Fábio M. Dias,
  • Diogo M. Caetano,
  • Ana Paula Falcão,
  • Maria da Glória Gomes and
  • Rita Bento

24 March 2026

Conservation and management of built cultural heritage require multidisciplinary approaches and reliable information to support decision-making. In this context, digital transformation strategies that combine Building Information Modeling (BIM) with...

  • Article
  • Open Access

A Multimodal In-Ear Audio and Physiological Dataset for Swallowing and Non-Verbal Event Classification

  • Elyes Ben Cheikh,
  • Yassine Mrabet,
  • Catherine Laporte and
  • Rachel E. Bouserhal

24 March 2026

Swallowing is a critical marker of neurological and emotional health. The ability to monitor it continuously and non-invasively, especially through smart ear-worn devices, holds significant promise for clinical applications. Despite this potential, n...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

Maritime small object detection is critical for UAV-based sea surveillance but remains challenging due to the small size of targets and interference from sea reflections and waves. This paper proposes SeaLSOD-YOLO, a lightweight detection algorithm b...

  • Article
  • Open Access

MHA-PINN: A Novel Physics-Informed Neural Network for Predicting Fiber Dyeability

  • Feier Zhou,
  • Yuxiang Liu,
  • Shuo Yang,
  • Fan Guo,
  • Xiaofeng Yuan and
  • Ruimin Xie

24 March 2026

Fiber dyeability is a core indicator of textile quality and added value. Pre-experiment accurate prediction of fiber dyeability reduces the waste and inefficiency of trial-and-error methods. However, due to the limited data volume and complex mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

To address false detections in small object detection within remote sensing imagery caused by complex backgrounds and minute target sizes, we propose an enhanced YOLOv8s detection algorithm, named AL-YOLOv8. The detection head is designed based on Ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

Smart sensors are increasingly used in agriculture to monitor environmental conditions and support data-driven decision-making. However, traditional sensor implementations face critical challenges related to power consumption, especially in remote fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery plays a vital role in critical applications such as military reconnaissance and disaster monitoring. These applications require high detection accuracy. Therefore, rotated object detection has gained increasing...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction technology has found widespread applications across various domains, including intelligent driving and underwater exploration. But the existing imaging systems and methods still have deficiencies in terms of reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access

24 March 2026

Extremely Large-Scale Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (XL-MIMO) is positioned as a transformative technology for sixth-generation (6G) networks, effectively turning base stations into high-resolution sensing and communication hubs. However, the practi...

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