Dear Colleagues,

Embedded Systems have been instrumental for the Internet of Things (IoT) and in our lives in the 21st century. Today, the world has been colonized by more than fifty billion IoT devices: sensors, smart meters, ultra-low power communication neyworks, and connectivity to cloud, fog, and edge computing. While researchers are currently investigating these challenging systems to increase our quality of life, some questions remain on the design of adaptable and low-footprint functions for the future generation of IoT devices. This Special Issue deals with the general topic of smart methods, circuits, and systems dedicated to adapting the embedded architecture of the device in a constrained (harsh) environment with limited onboard resources.      

MDPI Sensors solicits paper submissions and aims to bring together researchers and application developers working on the intersection of IoT with next-generation sensor development, low-footprint circuits and systems, real-time, edge computing, secure and privacy-preserving computing, and adaptive hardware. We also aim to explore the application of novel IoT computing results and describe and assess their impact. The peer-reviewed articles will showcase potentially high-impact research topics, directions, and/or position papers. The objective of this issue is to identify topics that are likely to result in a noteworthy impact on society in the next 25 to 50 years.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Research topics include (but are not limited to):

• Design and development of low-footprint smart embedded systems;
• Design of non-conventional smart embedded systems;
• New paradigm and systems for ULP communication;
• Ultra-low power circuits and systems for IoT;
• Reconfigurable smart embedded systems;
• Hardware embedded security and privacy function for IoT;
• Smart embedded systems for edge, fog and cloud computing;
• Wearable or mobile smart embedded systems;
• Gait performance monitoring.

Applications include (but are not limited to):

• Smart embedded IoT system for health applications;
• Smart embedded IoT system for forensic applications;
• Smart embedded IoT system for environmental applications;
• Smart embedded IoT system for autonomous vehicles—IoV;
• Smart embedded IoT system for robotics.

Prof. Dr. Olivier Romain
Dr. Julien Le Kernec
Prof. Dr. Qian He
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ali Imran
Prof. Dr. Cheng Hu
Dr. Hong Hong
Guest Editors

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