Applications of Internet of Things and Intelligent Sensors in Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Intelligent sensors, the work horses of the Internet of Things (IoT), have permeated smart environments, including autonomous vehicles, military applications and supply chain industry, with the potential of IoT becoming truly limitless and ubiquitous. For quite a while, deploying active sensors in remote areas and open spaces has been limited due to a lack of opportunities to power them cheaply. This difficulty could change dramatically due to the ongoing competition to derive energy from space and drive power innovation and novel wireless power technologies. Power from space would not just enable strategic military applications, but also civil applications in cities, remote regions and smart environments. Hence, increasingly more IoT systems are expected to be integrated with artificial intelligence (AI), increasing smart IoT, enabling automation and securing IoT systems, potentially activating billions of sensing and networking devices. The result would be high-density IoT networks, platforms and, subsequently, dense big data transfers worldwide. We gradually inch towards a programmable and automated world, the true vision of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0. Humans have started to cohabit with robots, with IoT sensing systems predicted to tilt the balance towards high-density robots ‘living’ with human beings in highly densely populated cities. Other than power from space, several other technologies are converging to leverage the rapid development of IoT sensing systems, including 5G and 6G networks, crowd networks, the metaverse and IoT botnets. These technologies could accelerate the journey to a truly automated smart world and exacerbate cyber warfare threatening food production, energy, communication, transportation and defence systems. It is, therefore, timely and reasonable to explore this technology frontier in a real sense.

Therefore, this Special Issue of Remote Sensing aims to examine the “Applications of the Internet of Things and Intelligent Sensors in Remote Sensing”, paying attention to practical deployment and the technologies driving the revolution. Topics of interest include:

• Sensing of oil pressure in onshore and offshore crude oil pipelines;
• Infrared sensing of human actors in dense forest domains;
• Forest monitoring and sensing using the Internet of Things;
• IoT-based home automation;
• Autonomous vehicular navigation and sensing using IoT;
• IoT-based sensing and metrology;
• Secure agricultural remote sensing in large-scale IoT systems;
• Precision agriculture and IoT systems;
• Dust density sensing using IoT;
• IoT applications in smart cities and environments;
• Sensors for remote power from space;
• Applications of intelligent vehicular roads in robotic applications;
• Applications of intelligent swarm IoT systems;
• Emerging technologies in intelligent swarm IoT systems.

Prof. Dr. Johnson Ihyeh Agbinya
Dr. Xiaoying Kong
Guest Editors

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