Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols and Applications
This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the help of technological advances and standardization activities, we are witnessing the growth of the wireless sensor network applications in many areas, such as home appliances, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing. Recently, the adoption of WSNs in industrial areas has been increased due to matured technologies such as transceivers and protocols. Industrial wireless sensor networks require reliability, robustness, and timeliness in the information exchange between devices, and they need more sophisticated protocols that many researchers and developers are working on.
This Special Issue focuses on the latest research, application, and adoption of wireless sensor networks in industrial fields from the perspective of protocols and applications, requiring high reliability and real-time packet delivery.
In such a context, this Special Issue invites contributions in the following topics (though without being limited to them):
- Protocols for industrial wireless sensor networks;
- Wireless network control systems;
- Real-time communications in IWSN
- IWSN testbeds and applications such as smart factories;
- Edge and fog computing for IWSN;
- Any subjects relevant to IWSN.
Dr. Seong-eun Yoo
Dr. Taehong Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Protocols for industrial wireless sensor networks
- IWSN Standards such as IEEE 802.15.4, WirelessHART, and ISA100.11a
- Real-time communications in IWSN
- Wireless networked control systems (WNCS)
- IWSN testbeds and applications such as smart factories
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Published Papers
Sensors - ISSN 1424-8220