Wearable Sensors and Wireless Devices for Human-Centric Monitoring Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wearables; robotic exoskeleton; human activity monitoring
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Interests: wearables; sensors; wireless body area networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid evolution of sensor technology has revolutionized the way we monitor and interact with the human body and its environment. In particular, wearable sensors—ranging from inertial measurement units and biopotential electrodes to optical, chemical, and pressure sensors—have become integral components of modern, human-centric monitoring systems. These sensors are designed to be compact, lightweight, flexible, and often unobtrusive, allowing them to be seamlessly integrated into clothing, accessories, or directly onto the skin.
Coupled with wireless communication modules, wearable sensors enable real-time and continuous monitoring of physiological parameters (such as heart rate, respiration, and temperature), biomechanical activity (such as gait and posture), and environmental exposures (such as ambient gases and UV radiation). This convergence of wearable sensing and wireless data transmission supports a wide range of applications, including personal health monitoring, sports and fitness tracking, rehabilitation, workplace safety, and assistive technologies.
This Special Issue of Sensors focuses on the development, characterization, and deployment of wearable sensor technologies and wireless devices specifically designed for human-centric applications. We welcome contributions that highlight innovations in sensor materials, fabrication techniques, signal acquisition, integration methods, and sensor performance optimization. In particular, we seek studies that explore the challenges and solutions related to sensor reliability, miniaturization, power efficiency, and user comfort under real-world conditions.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Novel wearable sensor designs and fabrication processes;
- Physiological and biochemical sensing for human monitoring;
- Flexible, stretchable, and skin-conformable sensor materials;
- Wireless systems for real-time sensor data acquisition;
- Sensor fusion and intelligent interpretation of multimodal signals;
- Signal conditioning, preprocessing, and embedded analytics;
- Battery-less and energy-harvesting sensor systems;
- Wearable sensors for stress, fatigue, and emotional state monitoring;
- Sensor-based motion tracking, activity classification, and fall detection;
- Applications in healthcare, occupational safety, rehabilitation, and lifestyle monitoring.
We encourage researchers from academia and industries to submit original research papers, comprehensive reviews, and case studies that address both the technological and application aspects of wearable sensor systems for human-centric monitoring.
Dr. Lasi Piyathilaka
Dr. Daluwathu Mulla Gamage Preethichandra
Dr. Karthick Thiyagarajan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wearable sensors
- human monitoring
- flexible and stretchable sensors
- physiological sensing
- wireless sensor systems
- sensor signal processing
- real-time monitoring
- sensor integration
- sensor fusion
- IoT-based wearable devices
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