IoT and Wireless Sensor Network in Environmental Monitoring Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental monitoring (EM) has various applications, with the aim to cater to multiple purposes, including weather forecasting, air pollution control, water monitoring and fire damage assessment, among many others. Nowadays, EM is possible thanks to easy-to-access heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that are composed of modern sensors communicating among themselves or have a gateway through specific network protocols. Internet of things (IoT) devices are employed in WSNs to perform effective tasks such as waste management, temperature control, pollution discharges, vehicle marking and others.

These technologies, such as IoT and WSNs, have made the monitoring of the environment simple for everyone, and these are now essential components of research and management initiatives. With these technologies as a backbone of environmental monitoring systems, researchers are tackling some of the particularly difficult challenges of EM, and contributing to significant advances in a plurality of areas, such as data science, networks and sensor hardware/software architecture.

This Special Issue will bring together innovative works related to “IoT and Wireless Sensor Network in Environmental Monitoring Systems”, addressing several key issues that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Intelligent environmental monitoring;
• Data reliability and data quality;
• Low-cost and low-maintenance monitoring networks;
• Communication challenges;
• Edge computation.

Dr. Goncalo Jesus
Dr. Anabela Oliveira
Guest Editors

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