Smart Cities and Homes: Current Status and Future Possibilities
A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708). This special issue belongs to the section "Network Services and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 11574
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drones; robots; swarm drones; swarm robotics; IoT; smart sensors; mechatronics
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Interests: wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things; time series data mining
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart homes promise to be the building blocks of smart cities and are encompassed under the topic of the Internet of Things. In the most recent decade, advances in remote detecting innovation frameworks have led to an expansive number of different sorts of smart home. A smart home is an integration system, made up of about three important components: firstly, the physical components (smart sensors and electronic gadgets); secondly, the communication system (significant wireless advances used to actualize the frameworks using Z-Wave, Insteon, Wavenis, Bluetooth, WiFi, and ZigBee); thirdly, information processing through artificial intelligence programs (machine learning and data mining). Numerous proportional names are utilized for the savvy home framework e.g., home observation, home computerization, assisted living framework, wise home etc.
The current advances in home computerization contribute towards achieving risk-free sheltered living as well as comfortable real-life settings for the residential home environment. Ubiquitous monitoring systems might be more readily adopted by residents if monitoring systems were designed and developed as custom-made tools. Ambient assisted living (AAL) is amongst the emerging, brilliant home applications, and contains interoperable ideas, items, and administrative techniques. These coordinate new data and correspondence advances and home situations with the aim of increasing the personal satisfaction of individuals in all phases of life.
This Special Issue aims to publish original, significant and visionary papers describing the scientific methods and technologies that improve efficiency, productivity, quality and reliability in all areas of wireless home automation and ambient assisted living. This Special Issue will provide a broad platform for publishing the many rapid advances that have been achieved to date in the area of wireless home automation and ambient assisted living. In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on understanding what should be done to improve the sensing awareness and capability of humans. Submissions of scientific results from experts in academia and industry worldwide are strongly encouraged.
Contributions may include, but are not limited to:
- intelligent sensors and actuators for homes, buildings and infrastructures
- real-time control and optimization
- distributed, networked and collaborative systems
- big data and real-time data processing
- wireless communication protocols and implementation
- modeling and analysis of physical components and the environment
- modeling, analysis and integration of human activities
- energy efficiency in homes, buildings and infrastructures
- practical deployment and case studies
- anomaly detection in the smart home environment
- innovative wireless sensing and computing systems or prototypes
- innovative use of smartphones or mobile tablets for smart homes
- cloud-based data processing for human-awareness in home automation
- Internet of Things (IOT) and cloud computing for the smart environment
- real-time and semantic web services
Prof. Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Prof. Dr. Nagender Kumar Suryadevara
Guest Editors
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