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Sensors and Their Applications in Seismology

edited by Yong Zheng and

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: geodetic observation; DAS; dense array; AI; seismic tomography; unconventional observation techniques; integrated studies; multiple observational techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)

Body Composition Assessment with Sensors

edited by

Antonio Hernández

, Carlos Serrano and Maria Luisa Martín

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open

Keywords: body composition; biomedical sensors; bioimpedance; densitometry; muscle mass; body fat; hydration; wearable devices; instrument validation; non-invasive assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart City

edited by

Guisong Yang

,

Yutong Liu

and

Linghe Kong

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 11 articles | Viewed by 34978 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Optic Fiber Sensing Technology for Marine Environment

edited by

Fang Li

,

Chi Wu

and

Zhou Meng

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 26337 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Smart Sensors and Digital Biomarkers for Ambient Assisted Living, Health Monitoring, Social Care and Rehabilitation

edited by

Fasih Haider

,

Bernard Ženko

,

Aleksandra Rashkovska

, Mojca Debeljak, Muhammad Rehan Usman, Zlatko Matjačić and

Saturnino Luz

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1849 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart sensors; digital biomarkers; assisted living; social care; health monitoring; AI in healthcare; wearable technology; sensor networks; multimodal data analysis; cognitive health; personalized support

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Security Issues and Solutions for the Internet of Things

edited by

Marco Grossi

and Martin Eugenio Omana

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1830 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; security; cyberattacks; artificial intelligence; machine learning; authentication; cryptography; firewall; physical unclonable functions; denial of service attack

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Advanced Nanogenerators for Micro-Energy and Self-Powered Sensors

edited by

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submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1766 | Submission Open

Keywords: triboelectric nanogenerators; piezoelectric nanogenerators; electromagnetic nanogenerator; wearable self-powered sensor; zero-power sensors; artificial intelligence; sound and vibration; multifunctional sensors; energy harvesting; internet of things; monitoring and communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Quantum-Enabled Optical Communications and Networks

edited by M. V. Jabir

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1235 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Sensor-Driven Anomaly Detection Using Deep Learning Techniques

edited by Naveed Ilyas

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; anomaly detection; deep learning; sensor fusion; unsupervised learning; industrial iot; biomedical sensors; real-time monitoring; temporal modeling; healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Sensing, Communication, and Security for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

Francisco J. Aparicio-Navarro

,

Ali Safaa Sadiq Al Shakarchi

, Hesam Jadidbonab and Asma Adnane

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensing; communication; security ; connected and autonomous vehicle

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Human–Computer Interaction in Sensor Systems

edited by

Maja Pušnik

and

Boštjan Šumak

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open

Keywords: human– computer interaction (HCI); sensor-based systems; usability; accessibility; and user experience (UX); digital inclusion and assistive technologies; smart glasses and immersive XR (VR/AR/MR); multimodal interaction; context-aware systems; wearable and mobile sensors; smart environments; participatory design and co-creation; privacy; trust; and ethics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Recent Advances in Silicon Photonic Sensors

edited by Beiju Huang and

Zan Zhang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open

Keywords: on-chip silicon photonic sensor design; heterogeneous integration of silicon photonics with III-V semiconductors; 2D materials; or microfluidics; high-sensitivity detection schemes; thermal; vibration; and electromagnetic interference robustness optimization; machine learning/AI-aided sensor calibration; error mitigation; and data analysis; biomedical applications; environmental/industrial sensing; silicon photonic-based LiDAR systems; silicon photonic circuits for spectrum sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

AI and Big Data Analytics for Medical E-Diagnosis

edited by

Simon Fong

,

Sabah Mohammed

and

Victor Chang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3945 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-driven medical diagnostics; big data analytics in healthcare; sensor-based e-diagnosis; healthcare data integration; real-time diagnostic systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

AI and Sensors in Computer-Based Educational Systems

edited by

Ahmet Can Sabuncu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1028 | Submission Open

Keywords: integration of AI and sensors; IoT sensors; AI and sensor-enabled systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

New Technologies in Wireless Communication System

edited by

Michel Kulhandjian

and

Hovannes Kulhandjian

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1010 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless communications; wireless networks; Internet of Things

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Health Monitoring and Maintenance of Road Pavements Using Emerging Sensing Technologies: 2nd Edition

edited by

Federico Gulisano

,

Juan Gallego Medina

and

Valerio Gagliardi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 803 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensing systems; pavement health monitoring; embedded sensors; self-sensing materials; spaceborne (SAR; optical; multispectral); aerial (UAVs); and ground-based sensing applications for road health monitoring; non-destructive testing surveys; digital signal processing (DSP) in sensor applications; pavement management systems (PMS); predictive and condition-based road maintenance; machine learning; augmented and virtual reality tools

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sensor-Driven Approaches to Enhancing D2D Communication Efficiency and Interference Management

edited by

Redha Radaydeh

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 323 | Submission Open

Keywords: D2D communication; network sensing; spectrum sharing; intelligent devices; AI techniques; network efficiency; interference management; recourse management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Innovative Sensors and Processes for Intrusion and Anomaly Detection in IoT

edited by Vasos Vassiliou and

Iacovos I. Ioannou

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 305 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT security; intrusion detection; anomaly detection; edge computing; cyber– physical systems; machine learning; sensor networks; privacy; network monitoring; embedded security; smart environments; AI for security; resilient sensing; hybrid threat detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Edge Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for IoT-Enabled Systems

edited by

Mohammad Farhan Khan

and

Mamoona Humayun

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 268 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); internet of things (IoT); edge computing; data processing; sensor data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Spectral Sensing Techniques in Biological Detection and Analysis

edited by

Lenka Halámková

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 195 | Submission Open

Keywords: spectral sensing; biosensors; Raman spectroscopy; infrared; fluorescence spectroscopy; UV– vis spectroscopy; biological detection; biomolecule analysis; disease diagnostics; forensic sensing; signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Transforming Healthcare with Smart Sensing and Machine Learning

edited by Mehdi Boukallel

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart sensing technologies; multimodal sensor fusion; machine learning in healthcare; digital health transformation; personalized medicine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

AI-Driven IoT Solutions for Urban Mobility Challenges

edited by

Ricardo S. Alonso Rincón

,

Salvatore Monteleone

and

Albano Carrera

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT; sensors network; urban mobility; artificial intelligence driven applications; sensor networks cybersecurity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

New Trends in Robot Vision Sensors and System

edited by

Tao Ye

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 118 | Submission Open

Keywords: robot vision sensors; intelligent sensing; multi-sensor information fusion; object detection; SLAM; artificial intelligence; autonomous systems; perception; 3D vision; mining robotics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

AI and Big Data for Smart Healthcare: Ensuring Privacy and Security

edited by

Mamoon Rashid

and

Saqib Iqbal Hakak

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning for diagnosis; medical data management and analytics; big data for smart healthcare; privacy and security in smart healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Intelligent Mobile Robotics: Object Recognition, Human–Robot Interaction and Autonomous Navigation

edited by

Tomasz Krzeszowski

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 97 | Submission Open

Keywords: mobile robot; object recognition; object detection; object tracking; place recognition; navigation; localization; SLAM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)

Generative AI and Neural Representations for Intelligent Sensing and Cooperative Perception in Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

Abdulla Al-Kaff

and Jamal Berrich

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative AI; vision-language models (VLMs); large language models (LLMs); neural scene representations; object detection; dataset augmentation; semantic perception; digital twins; anomaly detection; cooperative perception; smart infrastructure; autonomous vehicles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Advancing Land Monitoring Through Synergistic Harmonization of Optical, Radar and Lidar Satellite Technologies: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ram C. Sharma

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 59 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical– SAR– LiDAR fusion; BRDF harmonization; bandpass alignment; co-registration; radiometric terrain correction; temporal harmonization; cloud gap-filling; S1/S2 contrastive pretraining; physics-informed fusion; joint inversion; GEDI supervision; canopy height mapping; AGB mapping; conformal prediction; domain adaptation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)

Cutting-Edge Sensor and Fusion Approaches for Robust and Reliable Autonomous Driving

edited by

Stefano Quer

and Gábor Kiss

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous driving; sensor fusion; multi-sensor integration; environmental perception; data-level fusion; intelligent transportation systems; real-time processing; sensor networks; perception algorithms; safety in autonomous driving

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Multimodal Sensing, Fusion, and VLMs for Scene Understanding and Robot Vision

edited by

ByoungChul Ko

and Sungkeun Yoo

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal sensing and fusion (RGB/Depth/Thermal/Event/LiDAR/Radar/IMU/Audio); sensor calibration; synchronization; and uncertainty modeling; Vision– Language Models (VLMs)/Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) for sensor-grounded perception; open-vocabulary detection/segmentation/tracking with real sensor data; grounded VQA; referring expressions; spatio-temporal/3D grounding; 3D perception and SLAM with language guidance; cross-modal registration; edge/embedded deployment; real-time inference; power– latency tradeoffs; robustness; safety; OOD detection; and trustworthy evaluation; retrieval-augmented and knowledge-aware perception with sensor priors; datasets; data acquisition protocols; and reproducible benchmarks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Next-Generation CRISPR-Based Biosensors for Medical Diagnosis

edited by

Biyao Yang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: CRISPR/Cas proteins; molecular diagnostics; point-of-care testing; biosensors and biosensing; nucleic acid detection; isothermal amplification; cancer diagnosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biosensors)

Innovative IoT Devices in Biomedical Monitoring: From Design to Application

edited by

Eduardo Cañete-Carmona

and

Aurora Sáez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; biomedical monitoring; wearable sensors; artificial intelligence; physiological signal analysis; biomedical image analysis; telemedicine and remote monitoring; biomedical data analytics; smart healthcare systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Next-Generation Flexible and Tactile Sensors: Materials, Mechanisms, and Applications

edited by

Song Gao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open

Keywords: flexible sensors; tactile sensors; soft electronics; soft robotics; wearable electronics; health monitoring; human– robot interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)

Indoor Localization Techniques Based on Wireless Communication

edited by

Marios Raspopoulos

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 10 | Submission Open

Keywords: UWB positioning; indoor localization; radar-based localization; Wi-Fi localization; foot-mounted pedestrian navigation; cooperative localization systems; wireless sensor or cellular network-based positioning; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); smartphone-based localization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging and Sensing

edited by

Hans-Martin Schwab

submission deadline 1 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical ultrasoun; ultrasound imaging; ultrasound-guided therapy; wearable ultrasound; machine learning for ultrasound; multimodal imaging; ultrasound transducers; ultrasound acquisition systems; signal and image processing; image reconstruction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Platforms and Application—Second Edition

edited by

Spyros Panagiotakis

,

Evangelos K. Markakis

and

Nancy Alonistioti

submission deadline 10 Oct 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9117 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial informatics; Industry 4.0; OT/IT convergence; Internet of Things; sensor networks; computer networks; wireless communications; network management; network function virtualization and software-defined networking; cybersecurity; predictive maintenance; edge/fog/cloud computing; smart industries (factories; manufacturing; healthcare; agriculture; farming; cities; grids; etc.); machine learning; artificial and computational intelligence; augmented and virtual reality; supply chain management; data analytics; human– computer interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Wearable Sensors for Postural Stability and Fall Risk Analyses: 2nd Edition

edited by

Tadayoshi Asaka

and

Hiroki Mani

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: fall risk; motor learning; postural control; postural stability; wearable sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sensor-Based EEG Brain–Computer Interfaces: Technologies and Applications

edited by

Imène Jraidi

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor; EEG; brain– computer interfaces

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Multimodal Flexible Sensors: Toward Intelligent Sensing and Adaptive Interfaces

edited by

Jun Yang

and

Pei Li

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal flexible sensors; hybrid sensing materials; intelligent human– machine interfaces; AI-driven signal processing; wearable sensing technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Materials)

AI-Enhanced Sensor Data Integration and Processing

edited by Jun Li

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning surrogate models for accelerating forward operators; neural network-based observation operators for sensor data; deep learning approaches for variational data assimilation; AI-driven ensemble data assimilation techniques; hybrid physics-AI models for environmental prediction; multi-sensor fusion using AI techniques; real-time processing of high-resolution sensor streams; quality control and bias correction of sensor observations; uncertainty quantification in sensor data assimilation; adaptive sensor placement and observation strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Advances and Prospects in Optoelectronic Sensing Technology

edited by

Der-Yuh Lin

and

Chia-Feng Lin

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: emerging optoelectronic materials and sensing devices; new designs and fabrication techniques for sensing devices; new sensing theory and system designs; reliability and lifetime testing of optoelectronic sensing devices and systems; prospects of new optoelectronic materials for sensing applications; prospects of new optoelectronic sensing theory and system designs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Optical Nanosensors for Environmental and Biomedical Monitoring

edited by

Zhiyang Zhang

and Ling Chen

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1839 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical nanosensors; colorimetric sensor; lateral flow test; quantum dot sensor; SERS sensor; environmental monitoring; real-time monitoring; pollutant detection; biomedical detection; point-of-care testing; disease diagnostics; biomarker; pathogen detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Advanced Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

edited by

Magdalena Wajrak

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 26 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemical sensors; environmental monitoring; smart sensing; solid-state electrodes; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)

Pervasive Fiber Optic Sensor Technology: Improvements and Applications: 2nd Edition

edited by

Francesco Fienga

submission deadline 22 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber optic sensors; fiber Bragg grating-based sensors; optoelectronic devices and systems; the current state of the art in optical fiber detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Perspectives in Intelligent Sensors and Sensing Systems

edited by

Sergio A. Velastin

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 20015 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent sensors ; smart sensing ; sensing systems ; sensor technology ; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Progress in LiDAR Technologies and Applications

edited by

Santiago Royo

, Maria Ballesta-Garcia and

Pablo García-Gómez

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3438 | Submission Open

Keywords: lidar; TOF lidar; FMCW lidar; AMCW lidar; data fusion; point cloud processing; 3D computer vision; scattering media; modelling; autonomous vehicles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Reliable Autonomics and the Internet of Things

edited by

Joseph Rafferty

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 483 | Submission Open

Keywords: reliable autonomic systems; Internet of Things (IoT); self-management capabilitie; IoT automation; heterogeneous networks; self-healing networks; zero-trust protocols

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Advances in Communication Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

edited by

Stavros Koubias

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 339 | Submission Open

Keywords: real time; energy efficiency; security; heterogeneity; application-specific protocols; AI and machine learning in communication protocols; IoT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Technological Advances for Sensing in IoT-Based Networks

edited by

Saurabh Singh

and

Prashant Kumar

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT-based networks; sensing; artificial intelligence; blockchain technology; wireless sensor network; LPWAN

(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things)

Multimodal Sensing and Computing and Their Monitoring Applications

edited by

Tianyue Zheng

,

Jinyang Huang

, Jingzhi Hu and Chao Cai

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 215 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal sensing; RF sensing; vital sign monitoring; human activity recognition; deep learning; federated learning; contact-free sensing; Wi-Fi sensing; UWB radar; multimodal data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

AI-Driven Intelligent Communication

edited by

Wenbing Zhao

and Pan Wang

submission deadline 25 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 26 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning (ML); generative AI; large language models (LLM); LLM agent; wireless communication; 5G; 6G; space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

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