Sensors

Photonic Sensing Technology in the Energy Sector

edited by

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submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 806 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical-fiber sensors; spectroscopic sensors; integrated photonic sensors; LiDAR sensors; green photonics; energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Sensors for Predictive Maintenance of Machines: 2nd Edition

edited by Wenyi Wang

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 425 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-based machine predictive maintenance; mechanical fault detection and diagnosis; big data analytics for condition/health monitoring; failure trending and prognosis; structural health monitoring methods; technologies; and systems; advanced signal processing for condition/health monitoring; smart and novel sensors for condition/health monitoring; sensor networks and data fusion for fault diagnosis; failure prognosis; and NDT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Security and Privacy in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

Kangbin Yim

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open

Keywords: connected vehicles; cybersecurity; privacy; V2X communication; intrusion detection; AI security; blockchain; cyber resilience; OTA security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sensors in Sports Safety and NextGen Rehabilitation: 2nd Edition

edited by

Attila Biró

,

Sándor Miklós Szilágyi

,

László Szilágyi

and

Antonio Ignacio Cuesta Vargas

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open

Keywords: predictive modeling; injury diagnosis; fatigue management; biomechanical sensors; virtual rehabilitation; wearable sensors; radar sensors; concussion detection; smart insoles; EMG sensors; movement sensors; explainable AI (XAI) in sports diagnostics; neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) modeling; digital twin of athlete

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Advanced Massive MIMO and mmWave Communication Systems for Next-Generation Wireless Networks

edited by

Nicola Pasquino

and

Daniele Franci

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 207 | Submission Open

Keywords: massive MIMO system; multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO); electromagnetic field measurement; antenna design; 5G networks; wireless communication; wireless networks; mmWave

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Optical Fiber Sensors for Acoustic, Electric, and Magnetic Field Detection

edited by

Daniel S. Homa

,

Joshua Daw

,

Gary R. Pickrell

and Austin Fleming

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel optical fiber sensor designs; materials; and fabrication; electric; magnetic and electromagnetic field fiber optical sensors; microstructured fiber sensors; fiber optic shape; vibration; acoustic sensing; fiber Bragg grating sensors; Fabry– Perot interferometric fiber optic sensors; Rayleigh; Brillouin backscatter fiber optic sensing; harsh environment fiber optic sensors; intelligent optical fiber sensing networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Innovations in Smart Agriculture: Advanced Sensors and AI Systems Powered by Quantum and Classical Machine Learning

edited by Ahsan Morshed

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart agriculture; precision farming; quantum machine learning; classical machine learning; intelligent sensor systems; agricultural IoT (Internet of Things); crop monitoring and prediction; AI in agriculture; data-driven farming; sustainable agricultural technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Challenges and Future Trends of 3D Image Sensing, Visualization, and Processing: 2nd Edition

edited by

Miguel Oliveira

submission deadline 25 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D image sensing; visualization; processing; machine learning; deep learning; artificial intelligence; virtual reality; augmented reality; Industry 5.0; healthcare

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

Antennas, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces for Advanced Sensing Applications

edited by Guowen Ding

submission deadline 27 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4345 | Submission Open

Keywords: antenna design; metamaterials; metasurfaces; sensing technologies; wireless communications; environmental monitoring; healthcare applications; smart city infrastructure; signal processing; electromagnetic theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

AI-Driven Methods for Chemometric Spectroscopy: Algorithms and Applications

edited by

Liang Zou

and

Yue Huang

submission deadline 27 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); spectroscopic sensing; chemical and material analysis; chemometric spectroscopy; AI-based spectral preprocessing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)

New Trends and Progress in Plasmonic Sensors and Sensing Technology

edited by

Muhammad Ali Butt

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 13472 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface plasmon polariton; surface plasmon resonance; plasmonics; sensors; plasmonic nanoparticles; metal– insulator– metal waveguide; machine learning; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Waveform for Joint Radar and Communications

edited by

Matthias Weiß

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1559 | Submission Open

Keywords: radar; environmental sensing; communication; waveform design; joint radar– communication (JRC); dual-function radar communication system (DFRC)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)

Measurement Sensors and Applications

edited by

Laura Fabbiano

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 836 | Submission Open

Keywords: measurement theory; sensor design and fabrication; calibration and uncertainty analysis; multimodal sensing; signal processing and sensor fusion; AI/ML for sensor data; metrology in emerging sensors; smart cities and infrastructures; environmental and agricultural monitoring; smart applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Micro-/Nanorobots for Medical Diagnosis and Therapeutic Applications

edited by Ali Ghanbari and

Tapas Sen

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 295 | Submission Open

Keywords: micro-/nanorobots; micro-/nano sensors; medical diagnosis; micro-/nanorobotic systems; micro-/nanofabrication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Wireless Sensor Networks and Next-Generation Communication Technologies

edited by Li Chen

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless sensor networks (WSNs); 5G/6G communication systems; internet of things (IoT); edge/fog computing; AI-driven data fusion; energy-efficient protocols; security and privacy; heterogeneous network interoperability; smart city and industrial IoT; distributed network architectures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

A New Era of Embodiment: Cognitive Breakthroughs and Scene Adaptation in Robot Perception, Decision-Making and Autonomous Control

edited by

Yuanlong Xie

, Wenlong Li and Shuting Wang

submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning (ML)-based robot grasping detection; visual language model (VLM)-driven robot perception– plan– grasp framework; sensor-augmented visual language action (VLA) model for complex dual-arm operations; multi-modal sensing; recognition; mapping; and localization based on learning; perception fusion; decision-making; and collaboration across cross-domain clusters; foundational models for environmental perception and interaction under embodied intelligence; sensing and modeling of a collaborative environment for multiple autonomous systems; vision– language-based general target recognition and localization; human– machine– environment interaction modeling of embodied intelligence; perception; planning; and control of integrated embodied intelligence navigation

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

Advances in Sensing Technologies for Sleep Monitoring

edited by

Mahnoosh Kholghi

, Moid Sandhu and

David Silvera-Tawil

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5411 | Submission Open

Keywords: sleep monitoring; sensing technology; AI; IoT; data science; remote monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Blockchain-Based Solutions to Secure IoT

edited by

Zhaofeng Ma

, Yuwei Xu and Yuntao Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3075 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT security; blockchain; decentralized security; AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Ultrasonic Sensors and Ultrasonic Signal Processing

edited by

Ming Zhu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1943 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultrasonic sensor technology; ultrasound signal processing; materials science; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Dynamics and Control System Design for Robotics

edited by

Taewon Seo

,

Taegyun Kim

and Sungkeun Yoo

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1682 | Submission Open

Keywords: robot design; robot control; robot sensing

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

Advances in Sensors and IoT for Health Monitoring

edited by

Mehdi Adda

and

Hamid Mcheick

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1655 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor technologies; Internet of Things (IoT); health monitoring systems; real-time monitoring; healthcare applications

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

Advanced Sensing and Intelligent Technologies for Cybersecurity in the Internet of Things Systems

edited by

Mohammed Al-Mhiqani

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1583 | Submission Open

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

Wearable Medical Sensors and AI-Driven Signal Processing for Next-Generation Healthcare

edited by

Wanqing Wu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 874 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart biosensors; physiological monitoring; health informatics; edge computing in healthcare; multimodal biomedical data; digital health technologies; chronic disease management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Intelligent Sensor Integration and Signal Processing Algorithms for Industrial Automation

edited by

Hsiung-Cheng Lin

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 571 | Submission Open

Keywords: signal processing; sensor integration; automatic measurement; intelligent sensor system; sensing signal collection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Nuclear Radiation Detectors and Sensors

edited by

Virginia Strati

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 368 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental radiation monitoring; energy spectra analysis ; deep learning algorithms for signal processing; portable nuclear radiation detectors; detector calibration; real-time data analysis; IoT-integrated sensing systems; smart sensors network; proximal and remote sensing for radiation mapping; radiological risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sensing Technology in Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV)

edited by

Wenqi Lu

, Ziwei Yi and

Yikang Rui

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open

Keywords: connected automated vehicles; advanced sensing technologies; V2X communication and cooperative perception; autonomous decision-making and control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Metrology, Sensors, and Instrumentation for Industry 4.0 and IoT

edited by

Oscar Casas

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 240 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial sensors; virtual sensors; IoT enabled sensors and measurement systems; wireless sensor networks; energy harvesting methods; data management

Advanced Inertial Sensors: Advances, Challenges and Applications: Second Edition

edited by

Peng Xu

and

Xing Bian

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-precision inertial sensors; inertial navigations; newtonian and relativistic gravity field measurements in space; gravitational wave detections; autonomous orbit maintenances

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Advances in Photonics and Optics for Biochemical Sensing Applications

edited by Yunhan Luo, Lei Chen and

Yaofei Chen

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 211 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical fiber; biochemical sensor; SPR; AI; microcavity; biomagnetic

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Advancements in the Use of Distributed Sensing and Edge/Cloud Diagnostics in Structural Health Monitoring Systems

edited by

Vittorio Memmolo

and

Jochen Moll

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault diagnostics; damage detection; edge detection; predictive maintenance; artificial intelligence; inspection; continuous monitoring; real-time diagnosis; safety

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

NEMS for Precision Sensing: Self-Sensing Transduction, Noise, and Drift Control

edited by

Pengcheng Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: NEMS sensing; self-sensing transduction; capacitive/piezoresistive/piezoelectric readout; frequency tuning and stabilization; nonlinear dynamics for sensing; noise and drift mitigation; Q-factor engineering; calibration and metrology; low-power; CMOS-compatible integration; RF timing and filtering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Recent Advances in Wearable and Flexible Antennas and Sensors

edited by

Sima Noghanian

and Ali Shahid Muhammad

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable antennas and sensors; body-centric wireless devices; flexible and stretchable electronics; wireless power transfer for wearables; specific absorption rate (SAR) and thermal safety; smart textiles and e-textile integration; miniaturized biomedical wearable sensors; real-time data acquisition and telemetry; on-body and off-body communications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Application of Signal Processing and Communication Technologies in Urban Environment

edited by

Hanxiao Yu

, Aihua Wang,

Xu Zhang

and Jingxuan Huang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 118 | Submission Open

Keywords: signal processing; short-distance communications; channel modeling and prediction; intelligent transceiver design; RIS-assisted communication; integrated sensing and communication; digital twin technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Sensing in Marine Autonomous Robotic Systems

edited by Ikuo Yamamoto

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 118 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous marine robotics; sensor design; data fusion; autonomous systems; marine environments

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sensing for Future Internet of Intelligent Things (IoIT)

edited by

Abayomi Otebolaku

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-based sensing; internet of intelligent things (IoIT); sensor fusion; edge computing for AI sensing; context-aware systems; intelligent automation; smart environments; predictive maintenance; healthcare IoIT applications; ambience intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Proximal Sensing in Precision Agriculture: 2nd Edition

edited by

Somsubhra Chakraborty

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil; sensor; crop; image analysis; PXRF; DRS

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Evolution of IoT and IIoT: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications: Second Edition

edited by

Nicoleta Cristina Gaitan

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; sensors; Industrial Internet of Things; real time systems; embedded systems; LoRa; tensors decompositions

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

Sensor-Based Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis

edited by

Ying Zheng

, Ke Zhang, Lina Yao and

Yang Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault diagnosis; prognostics and health management (PHM); intelligent sensors; industrial process monitoring; signal processing and feature extraction; predictive maintenance; industrial IoT; condition monitoring

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

Smart Infrastructure for Sensor-Driven Systems

edited by

Kennedy Chinedu Okafor

and

Kelvin Anoh

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart social infrastructure; cloud-based sensor systems; artificial intelligence integration; mechatronic systems; complex system modelling; sensor data analytics; cyber– physical systems; edge-cloud collaboration; intelligent monitoring; scalable sensing architectures

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

AI on Biomedical Signal Sensing and Processing for Health Monitoring—2nd Edition

edited by

Shing-Tai Pan

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); biomedical signal processing; biomedical signal sensing; disease diagnosis; human health monitoring; non-invasion device

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biosensors)

AI for Sensor-Based Robotic Object Perception

edited by Gan Sun and Zhenyu Lu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 32 | Submission Open

Keywords: robotic; object perception; sensor-based perception

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

State-of-the-Art Sensor Technology in Human Movement Analysis

edited by

Adam J. Toth

, Ross Anderson and Sarah Kraeutner

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 25 | Submission Open

Keywords: human movement analysis; wearable sensors; inertial measurement units; motion capture; biomechanics; sensor fusion; artificial intelligence; rehabilitation technology; sports performance monitoring; human– machine interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

IoT Technologies in Smart Cities: Challenges and Sensor Applications

edited by

Laura Belli

and

Luca Davoli

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 25 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; smart city; data integration; services; data analysis; urban mobility

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

Acquisition and Processing of Seismic Signals

edited by

Juan Jose Galiana-Merino

and

Boualem Youcef Nassim Benabdeloued

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 23 | Submission Open

Keywords: seismic data acquisition; seismic sensors; seismic recorders; seismic networks; real-time seismic signal processing; wavelet processing; methodologies based on artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

Next-Generation Edge AI in Wearables and Smart Textiles

edited by Akshaya Aliyana and

George K. Stylios

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 23 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge AI; wearable sensors; smart textiles; IoT; neuromorphic computing; flexible electronics; energy harvesting; real-time analytics; privacy-preserving sensing; adaptive learning systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Next-Generation Fluorescent Sensing for Low-Cost Chemical Analysis

edited by

George Tsogkas

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 14 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluorescent sensing; low-cost platforms; analytical chemistry; paper-based devices; pharmaceutical analysis; food analysis; environmental monitoring; smartphone-based analysis; nanomaterials; point-of-care diagnostics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)

AI-Enhanced Sensing with Quantum and Edge Computing for Intelligent Healthcare and Environmental Systems

edited by

Ranesh Naha

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 10 | Submission Open

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence (AI); quantum computing; edge computing; intelligent sensing systems; smart healthcare; environmental monitoring; Internet of Things (IoT); federated and distributed learning; energy-efficient sensing; privacy and data security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Sensor Applications

edited by

Mitar Simic

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 8 | Submission Open

Keywords: EIS-based sensors & biosensors; EIS-enabled microfluidics; EIS modeling & data analysis; materials in EIS; signal processing and machine learning in EIS; EIS-based wearables; innovative applications of EIS

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)

AI-Enabled Biosensor Technologies for Boosting Medical Applications

edited by

Carlos G. Juan

and

José María Vicente-Samper

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 292 | Submission Open

Keywords: biosensors; reagents; chemical sensors; electronic sensors; optical sensors; electromagnetic sensors; biomedical applications; artificial intelligence; deep learning; machine learning; medical imaging

Applied Robotics and AI in Agriculture: Sensing and Autonomy for Deployment and Adoption

edited by

Santosh Pitla

and

Luan Pereira De Oliveira

submission deadline 1 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural robotics; artificial intelligence in agriculture; autonomous farm machinery; precision agriculture; computer vision for crops and livestock; edge AI and real-time analytics; robotic planting and harvesting; human– robot collaboration; scalable automation in farming; technology adoption in agriculture

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

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