The Internet of Things (IoT) in Remote Sensing: Opportunities and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in home automation, smart environments, smart cities and sensor networks for civilian and military applications have combined to create the Internet of Things (IoT). With it has also emerged a transformation of the Internet and mobile communication networks into a single infrastructure. The goal is to be able to access, secure, manage, control and scale the single IoT infrastructure from anywhere and with any device. This transformation creates new industrial opportunities in smart environments, sensor software, IoT platforms, cyber security, cryptographic schemes for sensor networks, digital forensics and sales.

New frontiers for IoT include sensor networks on land, underwater and in space to monitor environmental conditions, the remote supervision of large-scale farms, precision agriculture, remote surgery, remote laboratories, the retail industry and autonomous devices including drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

This Special Issue on “IoT in Remote Sensing: Opportunities and Challenges” provides a unique opportunity for researchers in these areas to publish current state of the art research and deployment findings. The Special Issue will accept research and tutorial papers on remote sensing applications and data analysis visualization and virtualization, environmental condition sensing applications, precision agriculture sensor networks, drone sensors, UAV sensing networks, and IoT platforms including military applications.

The objectives include deployment scenarios, management of ‘greenfield’ sensor networks and leveraging of ‘brownfield’ IoT infrastructure which could lead to new business models. Papers reporting on the state of the art, impact of IoT on human–machine interactions and machine intelligence, data collection and transfer, data processing to support food production, energy management, transformational health and transportation services in relation to the reduction of human carbon emissions will be considered.

Papers which target challenges including underwater sensor networks, swarm sensor techniques, embedded biological sensing, secure cryptographic schemes for sensors, and IoT security analysis will receive strong attention. Reports on industrial applications will be considered.

Prof. Johnson Agbinya
Guest Editor

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