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Sensor-Based Systems for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 719

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Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Interests: sensor networks; radio-frequency identifications (RFIDs); quantum computing
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Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Interests: functional safety; edge computing; human physiological parameters analysis
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Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Interests: machine learning; computer vision; data fusion; data visualization

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are witnessing a continuous increase in the human population, which has led to a growth in agriculture, breeding, industrial activities, and, ultimately, energy consumption. This growth is strongly related to far-reaching issues such as the reduction of air, water, and soil quality. These areas are essential to ensuring good health for humans and all living beings. Other issues of rising importance, which mainly affect large cities, are noise and light pollution. Among their harmful effects are mood disorders and their impact on human and animal circadian rhythms, which regulate the alternation of sleep and wakefulness. These issues have made it vital to develop advanced monitoring applications and devices that ensure compliance with regulations and laws and mitigate the risks of harmful effects on the environment and living beings. 

This Special Issue focuses on techniques that allow us to obtain information about the environment and the living beings immersed in it to carry out appropriate assessments and, where necessary, take adequate countermeasures. Using sensors with secure networks and protocols is essential in order to obtain and transfer these sorts of data for storage and analysis. This analysis can be performed manually by humans, through graphs and screens, or automatically through systems that use artificial intelligence or ad hoc algorithms, which are eventually run at the edge or are, in general, suitable for the concept of the computing continuum, which is targeted, among others, by European Commission KDT JU- and Chips JU-funded projects.

Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Biomedical monitoring;
  • Edge-AI computing;
  • Embedded systems;
  • Environmental monitoring;
  • Signal processing.

Prof. Dr. Bartolomeo Montrucchio
Dr. Jacopo Sini
Dr. Antonio Costantino Marceddu
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Keywords

  • biomedical monitoring
  • edge-ai computing
  • embedded systems
  • environmental monitoring
  • signal processing

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Temperature Differences Between Rooftop and Urban Canyon Sensors: Diurnal Dynamics, Drivers, and Implications
by Lorenzo Marinelli, Andrea Cecilia, Giampietro Casasanta, Alessandro Conidi, Igor Petenko and Stefania Argentini
Sensors 2025, 25(13), 4121; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25134121 - 2 Jul 2025
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Understanding temperature variations within the complex urban canopy layer (UCL) is challenging due to limitations and discrepancies between temperature measurements taken in urban canyons and on rooftops. The key question is how much these measurements differ and what factors contribute to these differences. [...] Read more.
Understanding temperature variations within the complex urban canopy layer (UCL) is challenging due to limitations and discrepancies between temperature measurements taken in urban canyons and on rooftops. The key question is how much these measurements differ and what factors contribute to these differences. According to the guidance by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), rooftop observations are not encouraged for urban monitoring, due to potentially anomalous microclimatic conditions, whereas measurements within urban canyons are recommended. This is particularly relevant given the increasing number of rooftop sensors deployed through citizen science, raising questions about the representativeness of such data. This study aimed to address this knowledge gap by comparing temperatures within the UCL using two sensors: one located on a rooftop, and the other positioned within the canyon. The temperature difference between these two nearby locations followed a clear diurnal cycle, peaking at over 1 °C between 12:00 and 16:00 local time, with the canyon warmer than the rooftop. This daytime warming was primarily driven by solar radiation and, to a lesser extent, by wind speed, but only under clear-sky conditions. During the rest of the day, the temperature difference remained negligible. Full article
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