Smartphone-Based Sensing and Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

In this age of increasing demand and testing costs, Point of Care (PoC) biosensing is the only sustainable solution to the healthcare, environmental monitoring, and food chain sectors’ needs. Smartphones offer a computational powered connected platform with user-friendly interfaces and standardized protocols to manage inputs/outputs and data communication.

Smartphones worldwide spreading, with reduced wealth and age influences, makes them perfect candidates to be used as a portable lab-in-a-pocket system, already integrating several sensing capabilities (geographical position, movement, acceleration, images, light, electromagnetic field, etc.). Moreover, they offer the possibility to monitor patients over time and to assist them in their daily activities.

The most recent sensing and biosensing technologies may exploit this unprecedented opportunity, fully developing this potential. This in turn may give us the chance to deal with problems affecting the XXI century society, like the pandemic we are all living, and also environmental pollution, sustainable food production, distributed healthcare and telemedicine.

In this special issue we target relevant contributions related to smartphone-based sensing and biosensing systems, with interest at all the different levels: from the physical platforms of the sensing materials and devices, to the clinical validation of the biosensors and their use, up to the big data analysis and data security aspects. We particularly address topics connected to the recent and future pandemics and technical debates about smartphone-based patients tracking and monitoring in these emergency situations.

Dr. Giulio Rosati
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Paccagnella
Guest Editors

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• Optical smartphone sensing
• Electrochemical smartphone-based biosensors
• Smartphone-based nanobiosensors
• Smartphone networks for big data collection and analysis
• Patients tracking
• Real time investigations
• Smartphone-acquired data security
• Smartphone data harvesting
• Smartphone game-based distributed data analysis