Preface: Proceedings of the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications †
by
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Stefano Mariani
1,*
,
Francesco Ciucci
2,
Dirk Lehmhus
3,
Thomas B. Messervey
4, 
Alberto Vallan
5,
Stefan Bosse
6 and
Francisco Falcone
7
1
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
2
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
3
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM, Group Complex Castings, Division Casting Technologies and Lightweight Design, 28359 Bremen, Germany
4
Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Via Fratelli Cuzio 42, 27100 Pavia, Italy
5
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
6
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
7
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Presented at the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, 15–30 November 2018; Available online: https://ecsa-5.sciforum.net.
Proceedings 2019, 4(1), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings04010052
Published: 25 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
This issue of Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-5), held online on 15–30 November, 2018, through the sciforum.net platform developed by MDPI. The annual ECSA conference was initiated in 2014 on an online basis only, to allow for participation from all over the world with no concerns of travel and related expenditures. This type of conference looks particularly appropriate and useful because research concerned with sensors is rapidly growing, and a platform for rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings can provide a further burst in the development of novel ideas.
ECSA-5 collected contributions concerning four thematic areas where sensors are changing science (Chemo and Biosensors, Physical Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Applications) and four specific sessions (Smart Cities, Smart Sensing Systems and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks, and Wearable Sensors), see https://ecsa-5.sciforum.net/. In total, 58 technical contributions and 2 keynote presentations were gathered, and all went through an independent peer-review process.
A companion special issue of Sensors (see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/5th_ecsa) will collect full-length versions of selected papers.
The conference was made possible thanks to the kind sponsorship of SENSORNETS 2019 (http://www.sensornets.org/home.aspx) and the Nanotechnology News Network (http://www.nanotechnology.org.il/). We are indebted to Filippo Ubertini and Jandro Abot, who chaired the Structural Health Monitoring session. We would also like to warmly thank Lily Sun and Nora Zhang for their extraordinary editorial work and support before, during, and right after ECSA-5.
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Chicago/Turabian StyleMariani, Stefano, Francesco Ciucci, Dirk Lehmhus, Thomas B. Messervey, Alberto Vallan, Stefan Bosse, and Francisco Falcone. 2019. "Preface: Proceedings of the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications" Proceedings 4, no. 1: 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings04010052
