Developments in IoT Microsystems
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 271
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber security and privacy; machine learning; mobile sensing and computing; smart health care; wireless communications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of things (IoT) is the connection of computing devices over a network (Internet) that enables a system to interact with the physical world in real time, share data wirelessly, and perform various services. Owing to the advancements in sensor microstructures, the diverse types of embedded sensors enable IoT devices to measure physical environments (e.g., temperature, light, sound, and motion) and make responses accordingly. They may process sensor data locally or transmit data to a hub wirelessly for sensor fusion. By integrating with actuators, IoT systems can further exert impacts on the physical world, forming a sensing-to-control loop. Furthermore, IoT devices have been increasingly used to interact with human users. For example, they can recognize human activities in order to distinguish complex contexts, verify a single user or multiple users, assist users with mission-critical tasks, and provide IoT-enabled smart healthcare. Accordingly, a variety of smart home and smart building applications as well as services have been facilitated; however, pervasive and smart IoT devices may also arouse security concerns, continuously penetrating into users’ privacy by sensing and potentially causing physical damage via the use of actuators if hacked by an adversary. Furthermore, the complex human factors, device heterogeneity, sensing modality differences, and limitations of small-sized sensors (e.g., MEMS sensors) bring a lot of challenges to IoT systems.
This Special Issue solicits the latest research outcomes and developments on IoT microsystems, from low-level microstructure advancements in sensing, actuation, computing, and communications to novel IoT applications as well as potential attacks that exploit IoT systems.
Dr. Chen Wang
Dr. Huaxia Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- internet of things
- sensing
- actuators
- measurement
- cyber–physical systems
- machine learning
- security and privacy
- micro-electromechanical systems
- medical care
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