Emerging Technologies for the Internet of Underwater Things
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2026 | Viewed by 207
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Interests: robot navigation; deployment of drones; unmanned aerial vehicles; control of wireless communication networks; control of power systems; robust control and filtering; hybrid dynamical systems; control engineering; biomedical engineering
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Interests: guidance; navigation and control of unmanned air; surface and underwater vehicles; cooperative control; systems dynamics and control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is an important emerging type of Internet of Things. IoUT is defined as a network of interconnected heterogeneous smart stationary and mobile underwater devices that include underwater sensors, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), underwater sonar stations, remotely operated underwater vehicles, etc.
This network is expected to be flexible enough to effectively operate under difficult and unpredictable ocean conditions. Practical applications of Internet of Underwater Things include environmental monitoring, disaster prediction and prevention, safety and rescue, marine geology, ocean natural resource exploration, marine archaeological expeditions, fishing, and marine farming. The growing deployment of the Internet of Underwater Things calls for new advanced methods and technologies to enable various practical applications of IoUT.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest research advances in the interdisciplinary field of emerging technologies for the Internet of Underwater Things. This Special Issue covers, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Algorithms for sensor data collection in Internet of Underwater Things;
- AUV-assisted IoUT;
- AUV navigation for data collection in IoUT;
- Mobile edge computing in IoUT;
- Underwater communications;
- AUV deployment and navigation for underwater monitoring;
- Navigation and control of marine vehicles enabling IoUT;
- IoUT environmental applications;
- IoUT in search and rescue;
- IoUT in disaster prediction and prevention;
- Emerging IoUT applications.
Prof. Dr. Andrey V. Savkin
Prof. Dr. Oleg Yakimenko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT)
- smart ocean
- underwater wireless sensor networks
- UWSN
- autonomous underwater vehicles
- AUVs
- AUV navigation
- underwater surveillance
- AUV-assisted IoUT
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