Antennas for IoT Devices, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2026 | Viewed by 912
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sensor and sensor networks; electromagnetic compatibility; wearable antennas; wireless communications; IoT; antenna design; computational electrodynamics; SAR; medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications of EMF; 3D printing antennas; antennas for 5G and 6G applications
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Interests: microwave circuits; EMC systems engineering; wireless communications; antenna development; EMF modelling
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Interests: design and analysis of flexible antennas, miniaturized microstrip antennas, and wireless systems; RF antennas and sensors based on carbon nanotube technologies and linearly and circularly polarized microstrip antennas for aerospace, GPS, and MIMO systems; high-power microwave heating systems; GPS receivers, data processing, and accuracy assessments; measurements of the electromagnetic constitutive parameters at microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies
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Dear Colleagues,
Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technology that bridges the gap between the physical and virtual world by connecting different physical objects (from sensors and home electronics to robots) and people through communication networks. According to forecasts, in the near future, IoT will encompass billions of network-connected objects that will improve our quality of life and accelerate economic growth. Moreover, for the seamless connectivity of heterogeneous IoT devices, various wireless technologies (SigFox, LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE-M, Bluetooth, etc.) are necessary. Hence, antenna performance is critical for the reliability and efficiency of wireless connectivity of IoT devices.
This Special Issue aims to address the design and characterization of new antenna technologies (covering narrow, multiple, and wide frequency ranges) and analysis techniques to handle the diverse requirements of the wide range of IoT applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Antennas for IoT wearable devices;
- NB-IoT antennas;
- Critical communications IoT antennas;
- Antennas for precision agriculture;
- Antennas for environmental monitoring;
- Internet of Underground Things antennas;
- Rectennas for IoT devices;
- New composite materials for IoT antennas;
- 3D printing antennas for IoT and IoUT devices;
- Procedures (passive and active) to test the performance of IoT antennas;
- Human exposure to IoT antennas.
Dr. Nikolay Todorov Atanasov
Dr. Maria Seimeni-Tsumani
Prof. Dr. Hussain Al-Rizzo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antenna design
- NB-IoT antennas
- IoT wearable antennas
- precision agriculture antennas
- wireless technologies
- antennas for heterogeneous IoT devices
- narrow band antennas
- multiband antennas
- wideband antennas
- antenna metrology
- antenna for smart sensors
- Internet of Underground Things antennas
- 3D printing antennas
- antennas for 5G and 6G applications
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