Evolution of IoT and IIoT: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications: Second Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Industrial Internet of Things; smart cities; data acquisition; distributed systems; embedded systems; FPGA systems; software architecture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the first edition of our Special Issue entitled “Evolution of IoT and IIoT: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications”, we are pleased to launch the second iteration of this Special Issue at the author's strong request, which comprehensively covers both the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT), exploring IIoT’s connections to broader IoT developments, emphasizing technological evolution and societal impact. The second edition has exclusively invited Dr. Nicoleta Cristina as Lead Guest Editor, whose distinguished academic credentials bring unique expertise to this role. All submissions will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be published immediately. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Additionally, authors may submit high-quality papers up to three months after the initial deadline, providing greater flexibility in publication planning.
This Special Issue hopes to address all types of high-quality and unpublished papers, which aim to solve open technical problems, opportunities, and challenges typical of the applications or systems based on intelligent sensors used for the Internet of Things and Industrial Internet of Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Smart IoT sensors (e.g., wearables, smart devices), new concepts, and paradigms and architectures;
- new trends in real time systems;
- sensor networks and smart computing;
- heterogeneous IIoT networks;
- LPWAN for IIoT (SigFox, LoRa, NB-FI, etc.);
- cellular-IoT technologies (NB-IoT, LTE, and Cat-M1);
- middleware, architectures, and protocols for IIoT;
- 5G for IIoT;
- fog/edge computing for IIoT;
- fieldbuses and IIoT;
- intelligent IIoT management and networking services;
- trustworthiness, security, and privacy for IIoT;
- real time system for IIoT;
- applications and use-cases (Industry 4.0, smart cities, digital health, smart and digital agriculture, etc.).
Dr. Nicoleta Cristina Gaitan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Internet of Things
- sensors
- Industrial Internet of Things
- real time systems
- embedded systems
- LoRa
- tensors decompositions
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