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Sensors and Signal Processing Techniques for Non-Invasive Health Monitoring

edited by

Elisabetta Peri

, Alessandra Galli, Sarah Tonello, Ana Neacșu and

Maria G. Signorini

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 22109 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomedical diagnostics; biomedical signal processing; non-invasive monitoring; biosensors; non-obtrusive devices; machine learning for biomedical applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Advanced Non-Invasive Sensors: Methods and Applications—2nd Edition

edited by

Janusz Kulon

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15981 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-invasive sensors; smartphones; non-invasive sensor networks; wearable non-invasive devices; data analysis; sensor design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Indoor Navigation: Indoor Positioning System Using Sensing Technologies

edited by

Frank Deinzer

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11464 | Submission Open

Keywords: indoor navigation; positioning systems; sensing technologies; sensor fusion; Wi-Fi/bluetooth; ultra-wideband; inertial measurement unit; non-linear systems

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

Advancing Human Gait Monitoring with Wearable Sensors

edited by M. Encarna Micó-Amigo and

Sauvik Das Gupta

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11025 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors; human gait monitoring; inertial measurement units (IMUs); mobility assessment; free-living monitoring; machine learning; digital biomarkers; clinical applications; rehabilitation technology; remote health monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Advances and Challenges in Sensor Security Systems

edited by

Raffaele Pizzolante

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10760 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors security systems; cybersecurity; IoT Devices; automotive; artificial intelligence

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

Sensors and Data-Driven Precision Agriculture—Second Edition

edited by

Takaharu Kameoka

, Toshihiro Fukatsu and Kazuki Kobayashi

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8086 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal sensors; MEMS multispectroscopic devices; phenotyping; drones; robot; photosynthesis; precision agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

IoT-Enabled Smart Everything Cyber-Physical Systems

edited by

Rolando Herrero

and Abhishek Murthy

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5321 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearables; static sensors; IoT; AI; industry x.0; connected health; smart cities; V2x; cloud; edge; mist

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Advanced Smart Agriculture Solutions—Second Edition

edited by

Azlan Zahid

and

Yaqoob Majeed

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4712 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; pattern recognition; 3D reconstruction; deep learning; image rendering classification; precision agriculture; object detection; crop sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Smart Agriculture)

Privacy and Security for IoT-Based Smart Homes

edited by

Andreas Jacobsson

and

Kayode Sakariyah Adewole

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4089 | Submission Open

Keywords: IoT security; privacy and trust; sensor data protection; intrusion detection systems (IDS); data anonymization; cybersecurity for IoT devices; secure sensor networks; edge and cloud security; ethical AI for smart homes

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

Advances in Biosignal Sensing and Signal Processing

edited by

Emi Yuda

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3197 | Submission Open

Keywords: biosignal sensing; signal processing; wearable devices; physiological monitoring; noise reduction; machine learning; multimodal biometrics; edge computing; Internet of Things (IoT); real-time processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Advances in Sensors for Online Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis: 2nd Edition

edited by

Yuan Yao

and Jia-Lin Kang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 3000 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; online condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; artificial intelligence; predictive maintenance; edge computing; signal processing; machine learning; industrial applications; data analytics

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

Sensor-Based Assessment of Performance in (Adaptive) Sports: Methodological Developments, Validation, and Emerging Analyses

edited by

Christophe Sauret

and

Delphine Chadefaux

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2446 | Submission Open

Keywords: methodological developments; sensors; sport performance; injury prevention; adaptive sports

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sensors and Wearable Device for Gait Analysis

edited by

Alessandro Puiatti

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1965 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors; gait analysis; inertial measurement units (IMUs); pressure sensing; smart textiles; sensor fusion; machine learning; mobile health (mHealth); real-world gait monitoring; gait disorders; rehabilitation technologies; human motion analysis; remote patient monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)

Large Language Models for Sensor Systems: Methods, Applications and Deployments

edited by

Yuchao Hou

and Di Wu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 841 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models (LLMs); sensor data understanding; sensor data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis for Smart Manufacturing

edited by Liming Shu,

Pengfei Zhang

and

Naohiko Sugita

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 527 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; smart manufacturing; condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; predictive maintenance; artificial intelligence; industrial applications; machine learning

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

Intelligent Navigation Systems for Aerospace and UAV Applications

edited by

Flavia Causa

and Federica Vitiello

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 434 | Submission Open

Keywords: navigation; GNSS challenges or denied environment; aerial platforms; alterative PNT; integrity monitoring; opportunistic navigation; cooperative navigation

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

Body Composition Assessment with Sensors

edited by

Antonio Hernández

, Carlos Serrano and Maria Luisa Martín

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 359 | 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)

Data Spaces in Sensor Networks and IoT Architectures

edited by

Miguel Pincheira

and Raffaele Giaffreda

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 340 | Submission Open

Keywords: data spaces; data sharing; interoperability; sensor networks; IoT architectures; data catalogues

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

Wearable Sensors—from the Material Perspective

edited by Swarnalok De

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 265 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable technology; flexible polymers; smart textiles; electronic textiles; biocompatibility; real-time monitoring; nanomaterials; conductive materials; environmental resistance; energy efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Materials)

Artificial Intelligence-Based Target Recognition and Remote Sensing Data Processing

edited by

Abdelmalek Toumi

Ali Khenchaf

and

Jean-Christophe Cexus

submission deadline 23 Sep 2026 | 15 articles | Viewed by 31905 | Submission Open

Keywords: target recognition; machine learning; deep learning; remote sensing; environmental monitoring; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)

Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks for Smart City

edited by

Guisong Yang

Yutong Liu

and

Linghe Kong

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 13 articles | Viewed by 47737 | Submission Open

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

Multi-Sensor Systems for Object Tracking—2nd Edition

edited by

Tomasz Hachaj

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 29563 | Submission Open

Keywords: object tracking; simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM); motion capture; autonomous vehicles; ubiquitous sensors; wearable sensors; computer vision; inertial measurement units (IMU); high-energy particles; LIDAR

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

Sensors for Physiological Monitoring and Digital Health: 2nd Edition

edited by

Ganesh R. Naik

Elena Pirogova

and

Margaret Lech

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9271 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearables; physiological monitoring; digital health; healthcare; artificial intelligence; biomedical signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Innovative Schemes for Bio/Chemical Sensors Based on Specialty Optical Fibers, Metasurfaces and Optofluidics

edited by

Nunzio Cennamo

and

Francesco Arcadio

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7247 | Submission Open

Keywords: POF probes for bio/chemical sensing; metasurfaces; optofluidics; specialty optical fibers for sensing; POF-based optical chemical sensors; POF-based sensor systems; HW and SW for POF sensor systems; machine and deep learning strategies for POF chips; MathMaterial interfaces and POFs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Advanced Nanogenerators for Micro-Energy and Self-Powered Sensors

edited by

and

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7226 | 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)

Industry 5.0 and Beyond: Sensor and Digital Technologies for Sustainable, Circular, and Human-Centric Systems

edited by

Maria Valero Bernal

Manuchehr Soleimani

and Anthony Basco Halog

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7067 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart sensors; wearable sensors; internet of things (IoT); industrial internet of things (IIoT); digital twins; artificial intelligence; machine learning; smart manufacturing; Industry 4.0; Industry 5.0; manufacturing systems; robotics and sensors; sustainability; human-centric systems; circularity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5880 | 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)

Design and Application of Millimeter-Wave/Microwave Antenna Array

edited by Xiang Gao and Zheng Li

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4657 | Submission Open

Keywords: on-chip antenna arrays; on-package antenna arrays; conformal antenna arrays; flexible wearable antenna arrays; shared-aperture antenna arrays; leaky wave antenna arrays; metasurface antenna arrays; beamforming algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Recent Advances in Silicon Photonic Sensors

edited by Beiju Huang and

Zan Zhang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2921 | 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)

Microwave Circuit Design and Propagation in Microwave Sensing Applications

edited by Tae-Hak Lee and

Seongmin Pyo

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2024 | Submission Open

Keywords: millimeter; microwave; antenna; filter; reconfigurable; satellite communication; wireless communication; wave propagation; synthetic aperture radar; wireless power transmission

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Quantum-Enabled Optical Communications and Networks

edited by M. V. Jabir

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2010 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Integrated Radar Sensing and Perception for Next-Generation Intelligent Systems

edited by Marco Mercuri and Marida De Maria

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1871 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-based radar perception; autonomous systems; human and remote monitoring; integrated radar sensing; machine perception; multi-sensor fusion; radar imaging; radar signal processing; semantic perception; smart environments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)

Recent Advances in Electronic Skins and Self-Powered Flexible Sensors for Wearable Applications

edited by

Wen Cheng

, Zifeng Wang and

Mengmeng Liu

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 720 | Submission Open

Keywords: flexible electronics; electronic Skins (e-skin); self-powered sensors; wearable technology; flexible Sensors; nano/micro-fabrication; novel materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)

Self-Powered Wearable Sensors for Mobile Autonomous Systems and Human–Robot Interaction

edited by

Hui Dong

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 660 | Submission Open

Keywords: self-powered sensors; wearable sensing; energy harvesting; human motion sensing; human–robot interaction; wearable robots and exoskeletons; autonomous sensing systems

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

Emerging Semiconductor Technologies for Next-Generation Sensors

edited by Tzu-Chiao Wei,

Dung-Sheng Tsai

and Chen-Fang Kang

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 360 | Submission Open

Keywords: semiconductor sensors; emergent materials; hybrid materials; nanomanufacturing; advanced sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Materials)

Electronic, Mass-Sensitive and Thermal Transducers for Bio- and Chemosensing

edited by

Michael J. Schöning

Sven Ingebrandt

and

Patrick Wagner

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 28862 | Submission Open

Keywords: transducers; sensors; biosensors; chemosensors; electronic; sensor application

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biosensors)

Machine Learning in Image/Video Processing and Sensing

edited by Yibo Fan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 11 articles | Viewed by 22664 | Submission Open

Keywords: image/video processing; video compression; machine learning

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

Recent Advances in LiDAR Sensing Technology for Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

Adam Ziębiński

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 17732 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR sensors; 2D LiDAR; 3D LiDAR; localisation systems; positioning systems; object recognition object identification; object tracking; precise distance measurements methods; communications; sensors fusion; data mining; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Infrared and Raman Spectral Sensing for Food and Industrial Applications

edited by

Barry K. Lavine

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17432 | Submission Open

Keywords: vibrational spectroscopy; infrared spectral sensing; Raman spectral sensing; industrial process monitoring; monitoring food production systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Wearable Devices for Physical Activity Monitoring

edited by

Jung-Min Lee

and

Myong-Won Seo

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 17044 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable devices; physical activity monitoring; physical activity assessment; public Health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Advanced Sensors in Atomic Level

edited by

Zehui Li

and Kunchan Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16431 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced sensors; nanomaterials; sensor technologies; MEMS/NEMS; precise atomic regulation; environmental monitoring; medical monitoring; material detection; photoelectric detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Materials)

Smart Magnetic Sensors and Application

edited by

Proloy Taran Das

Susana Cardoso de Freitas

and Huali Yang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14999 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel magnetic sensing methods and technologies; different magnetic sensors, including hall effect devices, magnetometers, magnetoimpedance sensors, magnetoresistance sensors, and magnetoelastic sensors; flexible and wearable magnetic sensors; autonomous and embedded printable magnetic sensors: design, fabrication, assembly, and reliability; biomagnetic sensing and applications, and their integration in MEMS, and microfluidic systems; magnetic sensor interconnections/interfaces and their testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Advances in Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using Single Sensor Techniques and Sensor Fusion Approaches

edited by

Jong-Myon Kim

and

Zahoor Ahmad

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 12 articles | Viewed by 13051 | Submission Open

Keywords: bearing fault diagnosis; single sensor techniques; sensor fusion; condition monitoring; machine learning

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

AI and Big Data Analytics for Medical E-Diagnosis

edited by

Simon Fong

Sabah Mohammed

and

Victor Chang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12666 | 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)

Underwater Vision Sensing System: 2nd Edition

edited by

Zhibin Yu

, Sai-Kit Yeung and

Huimin Lu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11176 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater imaging; underwater 3D reconstruction; autonomous underwater vehicles; underwater vision sensing systems; underwater networks; underwater communication; underwater sensing and detection; underwater microscopy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Human Movement Monitoring Using Wearable Sensor Technology—2nd Edition

edited by Yi-Chung Lin

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10723 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors; human movement; rehabilitation; workplace injury; posture; sport performance; sport injury

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Vibrational Spectroscopic Sensing Technologies and Applications for the Evaluation of Food Quality and Authenticity

edited by

Francisco Ferrero

and

Ana Soldado

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10053 | Submission Open

Keywords: near-infrared spectroscopy; chemometrics; instrumentation; machine learning; food quality applications; food authenticity applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Optoelectronic Devices and Sensors

edited by

Liang-Wen Ji

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8985 | Submission Open

Keywords: optoelectronics; thin films; gas sensors; microelectronics; photodetectors; nanophotonics; AlGaN-based nanoheterostructures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Deep Learning for Perception and Recognition Based on Sensor Data: Methods and Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by Gaochang Wu, Zizhu Fan and Dong Pan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 8964 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; visual perception; multimodal learning; multimodal fusion; pattern analysis; knowledge system; explainable machine learning; robot vision

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

Recent Innovations in Wearable Sensors for Biomedical Approaches

edited by

Martino Giaquinto

Luca Greco

and Michela Russo

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8897 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel smart health sensors; algorithms for physiological signal processing; low-power edge computing for digital health applications; secure communication protocols for health data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

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