Sensors

Advancing Global Connectivity: Efficient Transmission and Intelligent Sensing in Satellite Communications

edited by Ziyi Yang,

Xuhui Ding

,

Jianguo Li

, Xiang Gao,

Yujie Lin

and Dekang Liu

submission deadline 5 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 980 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite communications; advanced antenna design; signal processing techniques; MIMO; intelligent reflecting surfaces; intelligent sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Magnetic Sensors and Systems for Scientific and Industrial Applications

edited by

Nerija Žurauskienė

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 28 articles | Viewed by 70794 | Submission Open

Keywords: Magnetic materials; Magnetic films and structures; Magnetoresistive sensors; Hall sensors; Magnetic sensors arrays and systems; Integrated magnetic sensors; Magnetic sensors data processing and control; Robotics; Magnetic position sensors; Electric vehicles; Intelligent transport systems; Magnetic levitation; Electric power grids testing and monitoring; Electric current sensing; Magnetic field measurements at harsh environments; High magnetic field measurements; Electromagnetic launchers; Pulsed-field magnets; Electromagnetic metal forming and welding; Tokamak diagnostics; Stellarator diagnostics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Wearable and Unobtrusive Technologies for Healthcare Monitoring—2nd Edition

edited by

Carlo Massaroni

,

Emiliano Schena

and

Domenico Formica

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 30714 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors and technologies for medical applications; wearable sensors and technologies for physiological parameter monitoring; wearable and technologies sensors for applications in neuroscience; implantable sensors and devices; environmental sensors and devices for healthcare applications; body area sensor networks for medical applications; sensors for continuous patient monitoring; sensors for remote healthcare applications; metrological assessment of wearable and unobtrusive sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

edited by

Meir Nitzan

and

Ruben Bromiker

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 29781 | Submission Open

Keywords: Arterial oxygen saturation; Venous oxygen saturation; Tissue oxygen saturation; Pulse oximetry; Cyanotic heart disease neonatal screening; Near infrared spectroscopy; Cerebral perfusion measurement; Preterm oxygen supplementation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Sensor-Based Behavioral Biometrics

edited by

Kiril Alexiev

and Virginio Cantoni

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 23589 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors/sensing; biometrics; biometric recognition; biosignal; ECG/EEG/EMG/EOG signal sensing; biometric systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

IoT-Based Smart Environments, Applications and Tools

edited by

Waheb Abdullah

and Abdulghani Ali Ahmed

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 13119 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT applications; smart environment systems; advanced sensor technology; industrial internet of things; urban IoT integration; healthcare IoT solutions; AI-enhanced IoT; IoT security measures; IoT data analytics.

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

Sensing for Automatic Control and Measurement System

edited by

Igor Korobiichuk

and

Michał Nowicki

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10559 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensing technologies; automatic control; measurement systems; autonomous systems; sensor-based control; calibration techniques; process control

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

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

edited by

Spyros Panagiotakis

,

Evangelos K. Markakis

and

Nancy Alonistioti

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8266 | 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)

Advanced and Smart Multisensory Systems for Monitoring and Control of GHG, VOCs and Environmental Odours

edited by

Tiziano Zarra

and

Veronica Sberveglieri

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7139 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; industrial process control; instrumental detection; gaseous emissions; multiparametric analysis; low-cost sensors; greenhouse gases; environmental impacts; health effects; climate changes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Deep Learning for Information Fusion and Pattern Recognition—Second Edition

edited by

Yufeng Zheng

and

Erik Blasch

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1556 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor fusion; face recognition; cancer detection; image fusion; object detection; target recognition; robot vision; autonomous driving; AI image/video generators

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Sensor-Driven Intelligent Design Innovations in the Era of AI

edited by Shouqian Sun and Qun Wu

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 512 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor fusion; intelligent systems; AI-driven design optimization; human-centered design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Self-Powered Wireless Structural Health Monitoring Based on Energy Harvesting

edited by

Hongjun Xiang

,

Jianjun Wang

, Wan Sun, Zhiwei Zhang and Lipeng He

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 446 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring (SHM); energy harvesting; nonlinear dynamics in energy harvesting; nonlinear interface circuits; self-powered sensors/actuators/systems; wireless sensor networks; infrastructure monitoring; Internet of Things; energy harvesting in remote sensing and monitoring applications; other topics related to energy harvesting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Advances in Security for Emerging Intelligent Systems

edited by Cong Wu, Jing Chen, Yebo Feng and Xianhao Chen

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 26134 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent systems security; cyber threat resilience; AI and ML in cybersecurity; privacy-preserving technology; blockchain and IoT security

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

Trust, Privacy, and Security in IoT Networks

edited by

Antonio Muñoz

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 19422 | Submission Open

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

Advanced Sensors and Signal Processing for Psychophysiological Monitoring

edited by

Yvonne Tran

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11761 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovations in wearable and contactless sensors; including miniaturised and flexible bioelectronic systems; multimodal wearables; and passive sensing technologies; machine learning methods for feature extraction; such as deep learning models for interpreting physiological signals; automated noise reduction techniques; and personalised calibration strategies; multimodal data integration to improve reliability and interpretation; including sensor fusion strategies combining physiological; behavioural; and contextual data; advances in real-time processing and edge computing; enabling fast; low-latency analysis for continuous monitoring applications; novel signal processing techniques; such as adaptive filtering; wavelet transforms; and graph-based methods for detecting subtle physiological changes; validation studies in controlled and naturalistic settings; addressing challenges in terms of the accuracy; usability; and generalisability of psychophysiological sensors; applications in mental health; cognitive workload assessment; human– computer interaction; and clinical interventions; showcasing how these technologies are reshaping research and practice

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Emerging Trends in Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical Image Analysis

edited by

Francesco Mercaldo

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11291 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; medical image analysis; deep learning; artificial intelligence; healthcare

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

Intelligent Sensing Techniques for Detection of Attacks against Public Infrastructure

edited by

Ankur Chowdhary

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 10276 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; Internet of Things (IoT)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Digital Imaging Processing, Sensing, and Object Recognition

edited by

Marco Buzzelli

,

Flavio Piccoli

and Alain Tremeau

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6668 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital imaging processing; object recognition; sensors; object classification; object identification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Application of Sensors Technologies in Agricultural Engineering

edited by Sirio Cividino, Veronica Redaelli and Mauro Zaninelli

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5669 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor technologies; quantity and quality of agri-food production; precision agriculture; automation; safety; big data and AI for agricultural decision making

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Recent Trends and Developments in Antennas: Second Edition

edited by

Ahmed A. Kishk

and

Xiaoming Chen

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5345 | Submission Open

Keywords: new technologies for antennas that help to overcome traditional problems; new 5G/6G antennas; artificially intelligent (AI) and machine learning (ML)-based antenna design; compact MIMO and Massive MIMO antennas; wide-scanning antenna arrays; frequency diverse array antenna implementation; overcoming OAM shortcomings; enhancing on-chip antennas

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Intelligent Biophotonic Sensing: AI-Enhanced OTFT-Based Technologies and Applications

edited by

Shanshan Cheng

and

Chenfang Sun

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4004 | Submission Open

Keywords: biosensors; interfaces for biosensing and biomedical applications; point-of-care diagnosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biosensors)

Advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems Based on Sensor Fusion: 2nd Edition

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2764 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicles; driving assistance; surveillance infrastructure; traffic flow characteristics; vehicular communication (vehicle-to-everything); electric vehicles; vehicle robotics and control systems; transportation; multi-modal signal processing and analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Advances in Optical Sensing and Actuation: Devices, Systems and Applications

edited by Dimitrios Makrakis and Oussama Abderrahmane Dambri

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2539 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical sensing; optical actuation; integrated photonics; macroscale and nanoscale sensing systems; infrared; visible and ultraviolet light sensors; photonic systems; in vivo light transmission; optical medical devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Emerging Sensors and AI-Driven Innovations in Infrastructure Health Monitoring

edited by Seyyedbehrad Emadi and

Komarizadehasl Seyedmilad

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1859 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrastructure health monitoring; novel sensor technologies; AI-driven algorithms; sensor fusion; modal analysis; low-cost sensors; predictive maintenance; digital twins; IoT in civil engineering; edge computing in monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Assistive Robots for Healthcare and Human-Robot Interaction: 3rd Edition

edited by

Grazia D'Onofrio

and

Daniele Sancarlo

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1710 | Submission Open

Keywords: development of new sensing methodologies to facilitate HRI; improvement of existing technologies in HRI; application of multimodal approaches in HRI; role of emotional detection in HRI; ethical aspects of HRI; sensitive design in care robotics; patient centeredness; acceptability and usability assessment; impact of robot embodiment and how this affects interactions

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

Novel Biosensors Based on Nanomaterials

edited by Xiaojia Jin and Zitang Wei

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1311 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomaterials; biosensors; nanotechnology; point-of-care diagnostics; molecular recognition; electrochemical sensors; optical sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Smart Infrastructure: Sensing, Monitoring and Data-Driven Insights

edited by Sahar Hassani and

Ulrike Dackermann

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 439 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart infrastructure; structural health monitoring; sensor networks; data-driven insights; IoT in infrastructure; predictive maintenance; sustainable infrastructure; real-time monitoring; advanced sensing technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Advances in Mobile Sensing for Smart Healthcare

edited by

Maria Valero

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 25189 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors; remote patient monitoring; disease management; preventive healthcare; telemedicine and telehealth; mHealth applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Application of FPGA-Based Sensor Systems

edited by Nicola Lusardi

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 20447 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated processing intelligence; digitization of sensor data; real-time processing; latency reduction; communication overhead; programmable parallel processing; field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs); time-mode

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Recent Advances in X-Ray Sensing and Imaging

edited by Bahaa Ghammraoui

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 15883 | Submission Open

Keywords: X-ray imaging; photon-counting detectors; spectral imaging; high-spatial-resolution detectors; direct conversion detectors; X-ray phase-contrast imaging; X-ray coherent scatter imaging; material characterization; machine learning in imaging; industrial X-ray applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Smart Sensing and Control for Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems

edited by

Yabin Gao

, Yanxu Su,

Xiuyu He

and Bo Xu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 15651 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart sampling; machine vision; machine learning; distributed filtering; intelligent detection; autonomous decision making; optimal control; cooperation control; game-based control; smart fault tolerant; safety and security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Advanced Sensing and Fault Diagnosis for Complex Manufacturing Processes

edited by

Kai Zhang

,

Zhiwen Chen

and Yuri A. W. Shardt

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15013 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Energy Harvesting Technologies for Wireless Sensors

edited by Vishwas Bedekar

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14672 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy harvesting; wireless sensors; energy management; energy optimization; Internet of Things (IoT); energy-aware data collection; self-powered wireless sensor networks; multimodal energy harvesting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Advanced Sensing Technology in Structural Health Monitoring

edited by

Emanuela Natale

and

Giulio D'Emilia

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11648 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; sensor networks; MEMS sensors; measuring systems; uncertainty evaluation; structural monitoring; artificial intelligence; sensor fusion; calibration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Gas Recognition in E-Nose System

edited by

Antonio Pardo Martínez

and

Luis Fernandez Romero

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11577 | Submission Open

Keywords: gas recognition; electronic noses; machine olfaction; chemical sensing; chemometrics and signal processing; pattern recognition and machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)

Intelligent Sensors and Artificial Intelligence in Building

edited by Ke Yan, Xin Li and

Vincent Gan

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11139 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics for the Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks

edited by

Emanuele Lattanzi

and Chiara Contoli

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6092 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; machine learning for IoT; energy-aware machine learning; predictive maintenance; big data analytics; wireless sensor networks; security and privacy

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

Advances in Sensors for Sustainable Infrastructure: Inspection, Monitoring, and Maintenance

edited by

Suyun Ham

and

Mohammad Noori

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4865 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced sensors; sustainable infrastructure; structural health monitoring; predictive maintenance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Sensor Data-Driven Fault Diagnosis Techniques

edited by

Jang Woo Kwon

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4115 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault diagnosis; intelligent monitoring; predictive maintenance; sensor data analytics; machine learning for fault detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)

Advances in Sensing, Imaging and Computing for Autonomous Driving: 2nd Edition

edited by

Wei Li

and

Honglu Jiang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3580 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous driving vehicles; sensory data acquisition; sensory data processing; computer vision; motion planning and decision making; object detection; perception; and prediction; attack and defense in autonomous driving; safety; security; and privacy in autonomous driving; anomaly detection in autonomous driving; cooperative and coordinated autonomous driving

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Optical Sensors for Biological and Biomedical Applications

edited by

Antonio Martínez Olmos

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2594 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical sensor; LED; photodetector; biological; biomedical

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Efficient Resource Allocation in Wireless Sensor Networks

edited by

Jaeyoung Choi

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2378 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy efficiency; bandwidth management; computational resources; memory utilization; load balancing; machine learning approaches; cross-layer design; energy harvesting techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Image Processing and Analysis for Object Detection: 3rd Edition

edited by

Kaihua Zhang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2321 | Submission Open

Keywords: augmented reality; artificial intelligence; computer vision; classification algorithms; defect detection; deep learning; feature extraction; image processing; image classification; image super-resolution; machine vision; object detection; tracking; and recognition techniques; semantic segmentation; sensing technologies; sensor fusion and technologies; visual tracking; vision sensors; video classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

State of the Art in Photoacoustic and Photothermal Spectroscopy Gas Sensing

edited by

Hongpeng Wu

,

Angelo Sampaolo

,

Xukun Yin

and Ruyue Cui

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2039 | Submission Open

Keywords: trace gas sensing; quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy; multiple-sound-source-excitation photoacoustic spectroscopy; photoacoustic and photothermal hybrid spectroscopy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Sensors for Hyperspectral Imaging: Technologies, Methods and Data Processing—Second Edition

edited by

Subrata Chakraborty

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1951 | Submission Open

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; band selection; data compression; information fusion; and data visualization; model/algorithm development using machine learning/deep learning; new sensor technology and hardware

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)

Optical Nanosensors for Environmental and Biomedical Monitoring

edited by

Zhiyang Zhang

and Ling Chen

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1628 | 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)

Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks for Internet of Things Applications

edited by

Lexi Xu

, Chaowei Wang,

Feng Yin

and Keke Zu

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 828 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI; wireless sensor networks; IoT; applications; resource allocation and management; distributed optimization; big data; wireless localization and tracking; ISAC

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

Advanced Sensing Technologies for Space Electromagnetic Environments

edited by

Jose Sanchez del Rio Saez

and

Antonio Vázquez-López

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 467 | Submission Open

Keywords: space weather; solar flares; climate change; high- and medium-energy detectors; materials operating as electromagnetic shields; metals; ceramics; carbon polymer composites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)

AI Large Models for Edge Computing

edited by

Jie Zeng

,

Tiejun Lv

and

Xin Su

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 421 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge computing; GPTs; IoT applications; services; and wearable devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Smart Magnetic Sensors and Magnetometer Systems

edited by

Jixi Lu

, Danyue Ma and

Xiujie Fang

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 324 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart magnetic sensors; magnetometer systems; high-precision magnetic field measurements; miniaturized design; low-power chip technologies; edge computing; atomic spin detection; atomic spin manipulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

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