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Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, Volume 14, Issue 1

2025 February - 21 articles

Cover Story: While wireless solutions usually dominate body sensor networks, wired methods excel where dense sensor/actuator deployments, low latency, and high reliability are needed. Despite decades of wired communication advancements, wearable applications have lagged behind, burdened by complex wiring and communication overhead. We address this gap by introducing a novel serial protocol with group addressing that cuts overhead by up to 50%, as well as demonstrating its use in an interactive jacket prototype over a semiduplex UART. Using only a three-wire bus for power and communication, the jacket supports nine sensors/actuators, achieving a 2.27 ms feedback delay and a 435.4 Hz frame rate, matching top-performing multi-node wearables while maintaining flexible, efficient wiring. View this paper
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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,125 Views
28 Pages

Advanced Digital Solutions for Food Traceability: Enhancing Origin, Quality, and Safety Through NIRS, RFID, Blockchain, and IoT

  • Matyas Lukacs,
  • Fruzsina Toth,
  • Roland Horvath,
  • Gyula Solymos,
  • Boglárka Alpár,
  • Peter Varga,
  • Istvan Kertesz,
  • Zoltan Gillay,
  • Laszlo Baranyai and
  • Laszlo Friedrich
  • + 3 authors

The rapid growth of the human population, the increase in consumer needs regarding food authenticity, and the sub-par synchronization between agricultural and food industry production necessitate the development of reliable track and tracing solution...

(This article belongs to the Topic Trends and Prospects in Security, Encryption and Encoding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,829 Views
31 Pages

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Driven Hybrid Precoding for Efficient Mm-Wave Multi-User MIMO Systems

  • Adeb Salh,
  • Mohammed A. Alhartomi,
  • Ghasan Ali Hussain,
  • Chang Jing Jing,
  • Nor Shahida M. Shah,
  • Saeed Alzahrani,
  • Ruwaybih Alsulami,
  • Saad Alharbi,
  • Ahmad Hakimi and
  • Fares S. Almehmadi

High route loss and line-of-sight requirements are two of the fundamental challenges of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications that are mitigated by incorporating sensor technology. Sensing gives the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent comprehe...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications and Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,483 Views
17 Pages

Non-invasive temperature monitoring is highly valuable in applications such as microwave hyperthermia treatment, where overheating may damage healthy tissue. This paper presents a subspace-based method for real-time temperature monitoring using a sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,919 Views
29 Pages

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a cornerstone of modern Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, enabling seamless data collection and communication for many IoT applications. However, the deployment of WSNs in remote or inaccessible locations po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks: Innovations and Future Trends)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
65 Citations
39,421 Views
38 Pages

Deepfake technology, which employs advanced generative artificial intelligence to create hyper-realistic synthetic media, poses significant challenges across various sectors, including security, entertainment, and education. This literature review ex...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,707 Views
26 Pages

Pathway to Smart Maintenance: Integrating Engineering and Economics Modeling

  • Rakshith Badarinath,
  • Kai-Wen Tien and
  • Vittaldas V. Prabhu

This paper proposes a pathway for smart maintenance by addressing overarching questions and key impediments that arise when manufacturing companies are exploring investments in such projects. The proposed pathway consists of seven distinct steps at w...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Services and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
12,447 Views
38 Pages

Online High-Definition Map Construction for Autonomous Vehicles: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Hongyu Lyu,
  • Julie Stephany Berrio Perez,
  • Yaoqi Huang,
  • Kunming Li,
  • Mao Shan and
  • Stewart Worrall

High-definition (HD) maps aim to provide detailed road information with centimeter-level accuracy, essential for enabling precise navigation and safe operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Traditional offline construction methods involve several com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS))
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,803 Views
19 Pages

Due to the increasing demand for agricultural production and the depletion of natural resources, the rational and efficient use of resources in agriculture becomes essential. Thus, Agriculture 4.0 or precision agriculture (PA) was born, which leverag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks: Innovations and Future Trends)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,939 Views
16 Pages

An Intelligent Water Level Estimation System Considering Water Level Device Gauge Image Recognition and Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Chihiro Yukawa,
  • Tetsuya Oda,
  • Takeharu Sato,
  • Masaharu Hirota,
  • Kengo Katayama and
  • Leonard Barolli

The control of water levels in various environments is very important for predicting flooding and mitigating flood damages. Generally, water level device gauges are used to measure water levels, but the structural setting of reservoirs presents signi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks: Innovations and Future Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,668 Views
13 Pages

Ultrasonic flowmeters are essential sensor devices widely used in remote metering systems, smart grids, and monitoring systems. In these environments, a low-power design is critical to maximize energy efficiency. Real-time data collection and remote...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks: Innovations and Future Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,893 Views
23 Pages

Federated Learning for privacy-Friendly Health Apps: A Case Study on Ovulation Tracking

  • Nikolaos Pavlidis,
  • Andreas Sendros,
  • Theodoros Tsiolakis,
  • Periklis Kostamis,
  • Christos Karasoulas,
  • Eleni Briola,
  • Christos Chrysanthos Nikolaidis,
  • Vasilis Perifanis,
  • George Drosatos and
  • Pavlos S. Efraimidis
  • + 3 authors

In an era of increasing reliance on digital health solutions, safeguarding user privacy has emerged as a paramount concern. Health applications often need to balance advanced AI functionalities with sufficient privacy measures to ensure user engageme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated Learning: Applications and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,852 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Approach to Road Safety: Detecting Illegal Overtaking Using Smartphone Cameras and Deep Learning for Vehicle Auditing

  • Karem Daiane Marcomini,
  • Vitória de Carvalho Brito,
  • Gregori da Cruz Balestra,
  • Vitor Tosetto,
  • Luiz Carlos Duarte and
  • Antonio Roberto Donadon

Overtaking relies heavily on the driver’s attention and cognitive state, and illegal overtaking can lead to accidents, severe injuries, or fatalities. To enhance highway safety, we propose a method for accurately detecting illegal overtaking on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS))
  • Review
  • Open Access
183 Citations
27,768 Views
25 Pages

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a pivotal approach for decentralized Machine Learning (ML), addressing the unique demands of the Internet of Things (IoT) environments where data privacy, bandwidth constraints, and device heterogeneity are para...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated Learning: Applications and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,595 Views
33 Pages

In today’s era of rapid technological advancement, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are transforming sectors such as remote delivery, surveillance, and disaster response. However, challenges related to energy consumption and operational efficien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks: Innovations and Future Trends)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,067 Views
57 Pages

Recent advances in event-based cameras have led to significant developments in robotics, particularly in visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) applications. This technique enables real-time camera motion estimation and simultaneous env...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators, Sensors and Devices)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,059 Views
47 Pages

The development of reliable gas sensors is very important in many fields such as safety, environment, and agriculture, and is especially essential for industrial waste and air pollution monitoring. As the performance of mobile platforms equipped with...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,337 Views
22 Pages

Sensor-Based Detection of Characteristics of Rubber Springs

  • Leopold Hrabovský,
  • Jan Blata,
  • Ladislav Kovář,
  • Michal Kolesár and
  • Jaromír Štěpáník

Knowledge of experimentally obtained values of elastic deformations of rubber springs induced by applied compressive forces of known magnitudes is essential for the selection of rubber springs with optimal properties, which are used to dampen vibrati...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators, Sensors and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,831 Views
20 Pages

We introduce a novel wired communication approach for interactive wearable systems, employing a single signal wire and innovative group addressing protocol to reduce overhead. While wireless solutions dominate body sensor networks, wired approaches o...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications and Networking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,638 Views
22 Pages

The reliance on fossil fuels as a primary global energy source has significantly impacted the environment, contributing to pollution and climate change. A shift towards renewable energy sources, particularly solar power, is underway, though these sou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Assisted Machine-Environment Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,554 Views
26 Pages

Enhancing Campus Environment: Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring Through IoT and Web Technologies

  • Alfiandi Aulia Rahmadani,
  • Yan Watequlis Syaifudin,
  • Budhy Setiawan,
  • Yohanes Yohanie Fridelin Panduman and
  • Nobuo Funabiki

Nowadays, enhancing campus environments through mitigations of air pollutions is an essential endeavor to support academic achievements, health, and safety of students and staffs in higher educational institutes. In laboratories, pollutants from weld...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Smart Applications in IoT and Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,134 Views
20 Pages

Development of Virtual Water Flow Sensor Using Valve Performance Curve

  • Taeyang Kim,
  • Hyojun Kim,
  • Jinhyun Lee and
  • Younghum Cho

This research focuses on addressing the limitations of conventional physical sensors and developing a virtual water flow rate prediction technology. With HVAC systems being increasingly adopted, research on optimizing control settings based on load v...

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