RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Advances in the Design of IoT Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensors networks (WSN) are two fundamental pillars that enable the Internet of Things (IoT). RFID systems are able to identify and track devices, whilst WSN cooperate to gather and provide information from interconnected sensors. Both technologies must work together to exploit their advantages and complement their limitations. In fact, the combination of RFID and WSN represents a very promising approach to solve the current challenges in IoT.

Emerging challenges are arising from transforming RFID systems with mere identification capabilities into sensing and computational platforms and into wirelessly connected architectures. This fact, together with the latest advances in WSN and with the integration among both technologies, has produced the opportunity to develop novel IoT applications.

However, these two technologies still have to overcome several obstacles such as energy harvesting efficiency, communication interference, fault tolerance, higher capacities to handling data processing, cost feasibility, and an appropriate integration between these factors.

This Special Issue aims to gather a collection of papers, both from academic and industrial authors, focused on emergent challenges and applications that adopt RFID, WSN, or both technologies integrated to provide innovative IoT solutions in key sectors, such as supply chain management, smart cities, smart factories, health, sports, and retail, among others.

Dr. Asier Perallos
Dr. Hugo Landaluce
Dr. Laura Arjona
Dr. Ignacio Angulo Martínez
Guest Editors

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