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Wearable Devices and Sensors for Innovative Monitoring Systems in the 4.0 Era (Volume II)

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2024) | Viewed by 2303

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Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Interests: measurement in the IoT field and, more generally, in the Industry 4.0 and Health 4.0 fields; cyber-physical measurement systems; measurement of ICT systems sustainability and sustainability of measurements; operation and performance assessment of communication systems, equipment, and networks; measurement uncertainty; impact of quantum technologies on measurements; metrological characterization of advanced human-to-machine interfaces
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Department of Public Health, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Interests: health 4.0; new digital technologies for health monitoring; ICT sustainability in biomedical applications; advanced human-to-machine interfaces
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, “Wearable Devices and Sensors for Innovative Monitoring Systems in the 4.0 Era”.

While the concept of Industry 4.0 has become widely known, the principles and driving forces of this new paradigm have started leveraging other application contexts, such as healthcare, public administration, and agriculture, to name a few examples. This has led to the adoption of a more comprehensive and general expression, Era 4.0, which perfectly indicates the pervasiveness of this concept.

The concept of the 4.0 Era relies on several enabling technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), and especially on the acquisition and processing of data gathered from sensors and systems. These sensors must allow monitoring not only the operating environment i.e., machineries, workflow, digital paper trails, but also the people who operate in it.

In this regard, a major research challenge still remains—the need to facilitate a seamless interaction of the people/users with the sensory environment and with the IoT infrastructure, possibly without compromising the user’s comfort and activities.

In such a context, wearable sensors and monitoring systems represent the best candidates to facilitate this process and may become the new interface between the “real” and the digital world.

With these considerations in mind, the present Special Issue welcomes research contributions focused on innovative wearable devices and sensing solutions for monitoring systems in the 4.0 Era.

The topic of the proposed Special Issue encompasses most of the areas that are included in the aims and scope of the Sensors journal, namely:

  • Physical sensors;
  • Sensor networks;
  • Smart/Intelligent sensors;
  • Sensor devices;
  • Sensor technology and application;
  • Sensing principles;
  • Micro- and nano-sensors;
  • Internet of Things;
  • Signal processing, data fusion, and deep learning;
  • In-sensor systems;
  • Sensor interface;
  • Human–computer interaction;
  • Sensing systems;
  • MEMS/NEMS;
  • Localization and object tracking.

Prof. Dr. Leopoldo Angrisani
Dr. Annarita Tedesco
Prof. Dr. Egidio De Benedetto
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Keywords

  • Era 4.0
  • Industry 4.0
  • IoT
  • smart monitoring
  • smart sensors
  • wearable user interfaces
  • wearable monitoring systems
  • wearable devices
  • wearable sensors

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Facile One-Pot Preparation of Polypyrrole-Incorporated Conductive Hydrogels for Human Motion Sensing
by Zunhui Zhao, Jiahao Liu, Jun Lv, Bo Liu, Na Li and Hangyu Zhang
Sensors 2024, 24(17), 5814; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24175814 - 7 Sep 2024
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 1466
Abstract
Conductive hydrogels have been widely used in soft robotics, as well as skin-attached and implantable bioelectronic devices. Among the candidates of conductive fillers, conductive polymers have become popular due to their intrinsic conductivity, high biocompatibility, and mechanical flexibility. However, it is still a [...] Read more.
Conductive hydrogels have been widely used in soft robotics, as well as skin-attached and implantable bioelectronic devices. Among the candidates of conductive fillers, conductive polymers have become popular due to their intrinsic conductivity, high biocompatibility, and mechanical flexibility. However, it is still a challenge to construct conductive polymer-incorporated hydrogels with a good performance using a facile method. Herein, we present a simple method for the one-pot preparation of conductive polymer-incorporated hydrogels involving rapid photocuring of the hydrogel template followed by slow in situ polymerization of pyrrole. Due to the use of a milder oxidant, hydrogen peroxide, for polypyrrole synthesis, the photocuring of the hydrogel template and the growing of polypyrrole proceeded in an orderly manner, making it possible to prepare conductive polymer-incorporated hydrogels in one pot. The preparation process is facile and extensible. Moreover, the obtained hydrogels exhibit a series of properties suitable for biomedical strain sensors, including good conductivity (2.49 mS/cm), high stretchability (>200%), and a low Young’s modulus (~30 kPa) that is compatible with human skin. Full article
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