Distributed and Pervasive Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Fault-tolerant, wireless networks that incorporate sensors for monitoring physical characteristics, such as temperature, vibration, and proximity, have been realized for application in a range of industrial settings. For other applications, the development of such sensing networks is limited by the availability of low-cost, low-power, or miniaturized sensing technologies. Chemical and biological sensors, for example, have traditionally been developed for high analytical sensitivity and specificity, resulting in large, power-hungry, and often expensive systems unsuitable to redundancy and distribution. Efforts in this area have begun to consider materials and approaches that provide information of lesser specificity or sensitivity while offering high spatial and temporal resolution. This Special Issue highlights developments in the area of distributed and pervasive sensing networks, including systems, devices, enabling methods, and materials that facilitate the use of these approaches in under-served spheres or for unrealized applications.

Dr. Brandy J. Johnson
Dr. Jeffrey S. Erickson
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.