Sensor Systems in Smart Environments

Dear Colleagues,

A “smart” environments incorporates intelligent systems (e.g., smart home, smart factory, smart city, smart building, smart parking, smart agriculture, intelligent traffic systems, smart car etc.) employing pervasive computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive sensor systems, wireless and sensor networking to realize cyber and physical components for sensing, reasoning and controlling the environment. Within a smart environment, autonomous agents can take on an important mediating role between human users and the environment. This is particularly true if high-level cognitive functions and computational intelligence are employed to handle the uncertainties of the complex environment so as to allow agents to act appropriately within different contexts of interaction. The development of a smart environment introduces several challenges, which include system integration, system maintenance, geographical and functional extensibility, social networking, mobile computing, context-aware applications and services, human-in-the-loop modeling and simulation, big data analysis, cloud and edge-based IoT frameworks and environment, field experiments and testbeds. The main goal of this Special Issue is to present and discuss recent advances in the area of sensor systems, in particular in regard to technologies, architectures, algorithms and protocols for smart environments with emphasis on real smart environment applications. Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Security and privacy for smart IoT and CPS
• Wireless sensor networks (WSN) in smart cities
• Smart cities and Internet of Everything
• Smart city sewage, water and electricity management
• Smart city healthcare service monitoring
• Smart city emergency altering, management and infrastructure
• Smart city crime watching and alerting systems
• Smart city education, training and social services
• Smart transportation system planning, evaluation, and technologies
• Smart home, smart building and social community networks/infrastructures
• Precision agriculture
• Agent-based modeling
• Big data analytics and machine learning
• Cloud computing for Internet of Things
• Aggregate computing
• Self-organization swarm intelligence
• Cognitive edge computing
• Evolutionary computation
• Expert and knowledge-based systems
• Heuristic algorithms
• Hybrid models of NN
• Industry 4.0 & the connected factory
• Intelligent internet systems
• Machine learning
• Data science
• Next generation networks and CPS
• Neural networks and applications
• Optimization - quantum machine learning

Dr. Giandomenico Spezzano
Dr. Edoardo Serra
Guest Editors

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