Sensors

Smart Sensing Technologies for Human-Centered Healthcare: Research and Applications

edited by

Thanasis Tsanas

,

Andreas Triantafyllidis

,

Asimina Kiourti

and

Siddharth Arora

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 31598 | Submission Open

Keywords: actigraphy analysis; wearable sensors; ambient sensors; smartwatches; smartphones; data mining; biomedical signal processing and image processing; pattern recognition; telemonitoring; machine/deep learning and artificial intelligence in sensing and imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Body Surface Physiological Sensing for Advanced Cardiovascular Healthcare

edited by

Omar Escalona

, Dewar Finlay and

Fernando Soares Schlindwein

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 27004 | Submission Open

Keywords: Novel bipolar ECG leads interpretation; wireless interconnected ECG sensor systems; Wearable biocompatible dry ECG electrodes; body-surface physiological variables sensing techniques; noninvasive sensors; wireless control of cardiovascular therapeutic implanted devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

New Methods and Applications for UAVs

edited by

Andrzej Łukaszewicz

,

Carlos Tavares Calafate

and

Wojciech Giernacki

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 23088 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Body Sensor Networks and Wearables for Health Monitoring

edited by

Dario Salvi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 21362 | Submission Open

Keywords: body sensor networks; wearable sensors; health monitoring; Internet of Medical Things; mobile-health; digital-health

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Security of IoT-Enabled Infrastructures in Smart Cities

edited by

Wenjuan Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 19499 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Design, Communication, and Control of Autonomous Vehicle Systems

edited by

Ali Eydgahi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13533 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Sensors for Human Posture and Movement

edited by

Luis Enrique Roche-Seruendo

,

Antonio Cartón-Llorente

,

Alberto Rubio-Peirotén

and

Alejandro Molina-Molina

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 13453 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearables and smart clothing; biosensors; running; gait; posture; jumping; biomechanical monitoring; electromyography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

(Bio)sensors for Physiological Monitoring

edited by

Falk Magnus

and

Sergey Shleev

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 13131 | Submission Open

Keywords: (bio)sensors; physical and chemical sensors; electrical; optical; mechanical; and thermal sensors; physiological monitoring; health monitoring; real-time sensing; wearable technology; personalized healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Millimeter-Wave Antennas for 5G

edited by Minmin Mao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12492 | Submission Open

Keywords: millimeter-wave; antennas; 5G

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Feature Review Papers in the Biomedical Sensors Section

edited by

James F. Rusling

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11836 | Submission Open

Keywords: in vivo sensors; cancer biomarkers; heart disease biomarkers; Alzheimer’ s disease biomarkers; sensors for physiological function; self-powered sensors; RNA sensors; CRISPR-based sensors; multiplexed sensors; wearable sensors; implanted sensors; nano-electronically powered sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

INS/GNSS Integrated Navigation Systems

edited by

Xiyuan Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11730 | Submission Open

Keywords: inertial navigation systems; GNSS; sensor fusion; integrated navigation; Kalman filter

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

Extended Reality in Medicine and Healthcare: Methods, Technologies, Applications and Future Trends

edited by

Alida Mazzoli

,

Marco Mandolini

and

Agnese Brunzini

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11549 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtual reality; augmented Reality; mixed reality; metaverse; surgery; rehabilitation; surgical and medical simulation; health and medical education; health and medical training; intelligent healthcare service; telemedicine and telehealth; health 4.0; medical imaging; digital human modeling; interactive technologies and systems; multimodal interaction

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

Sensors and Extreme Environments

edited by

Ann Morrison

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11511 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme environments; harsh conditions; challenging terrains; severe climates; unforgiving settings; sensor resilience; extreme sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)

Health Monitoring and Maintenance of Road Pavements Using Emerging Sensing Technologies

edited by

Federico Gulisano

,

Juan Gallego Medina

and

Valerio Gagliardi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9851 | 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)

Multi-sensor Fusion in Medical Imaging, Diagnosis and Therapy

edited by

Xuming Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9754 | Submission Open

Keywords: data fusion; sparse representation; multi-scale decomposition; machine learning; deep learning model; convolutional neural network; transformer; disease diagnosis and therapy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Sensors and Machine-Learning Based Signal Processing

edited by

Jonatan Lerga

,

Eftim Zdravevski

and Péter Kovács

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9672 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; model-driven deep learning signal processing; classification; signal enhancement; signal reconstruction; prediction; forecasting; adaptive filtering; feature extraction; sensor fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Advanced Wearable Sensors and Other Sensing Technologies for Diagnosis and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9603 | Submission Open

Keywords: Parkinson’ s disease; movement disorders; parkinsonism; dystonia; ataxia; chorea; biosensors; wearable sensors; gait analysis; remote patient monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Emerging Technologies for Gait Analysis and Improvement: Sports and Clinical Applications

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9140 | Submission Open

Keywords: walking; running; assessment; monitoring; wearable sensor; wireless sensor; markerless technology; smart system; body-worn device; assistive device; sport; rehabilitation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Sensors for Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring

edited by

Xing Fu

and

Hong-Nan Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8599 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-destructive testing sensor; damage identification; online monitoring; computer vision technology; deep learning; digital twin; data mining; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

High Performance Sensors and Actuators in the Context of Industry 4.0 and Society Wellbeing: Theory, Developments and Applications

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Vijaya Kumar Manupati

,

Géza Husi

,

Camelia Claudia Avram

and

Justyna Trojanowska

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8528 | Submission Open

Keywords: Advanced Sensors; Advanced actuators; Industry 4.0; Added Value Systems; Wellbeing; Quality of Life

(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)

Optoelectronic Sensors

edited by

Paul R. Ohodnicki

,

Dolendra Karki

and

Khurram Naeem

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8491 | Submission Open

Keywords: optoelectronic sensors; fiber-optic sensors; on-chip photonic sensors; point/quasi-distributed/distributed fiber-optic sensors; sensor design and integration; fiber-optic sensor fabrication; sensing materials engineering; strain/temperature/gas/pressure/pH/acoustics/vibration sensors; electric/magnetic field sensors and materials; quantum sensing; interferometry in optical waveguides; magneto-optics; electro-optics; plasmonics; optical metamaterials; optical thin films; UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy; single crystal fibers growth and application; nuclear radiation sensors; fiber-optic sensor-based structural health monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Smart Sensors for Cardiac Health Monitoring

edited by

Gaetano D. Gargiulo

and

Emilio Andreozzi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8490 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Sensors and Sensor Fusion Technology in Autonomous Vehicles

edited by

Stefano Quer

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7235 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor fusion; multi-sensor fusion; autonomous vehicles; autonomous driving; intelligent vehicles; self-driving cars; perception; environmental reconstruction; data integration; deep learning; multi-view; obstacle detection; target tracking; camera; lidar; radar

(This special issue belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)

Sensor-Based Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure

edited by

Bin Xu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7186 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; structural health monitoring; civil infrastructure; sensor materials; sensor networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)

Advances in Signal Processing for Biomedical Applications and Healthcare

edited by

Cataldo Guaragnella

and

Maria Rizzi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6863 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer-aided diagnosis systems; digital technologies for healthcare; biomedical signal/image/video processing; algorithms and techniques for healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Fiber Optic and Photonic Sensors for Healthcare Monitoring: Technology and Applications

edited by

Leonardo Bianchi

,

Paola Saccomandi

and

Carlos Marques

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5686 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber optic sensors; optical fiber technology; fiber bragg grating sensors; fluoroptic sensors; photonic sensors; healthcare monitoring; wearable sensors; physiological monitoring; biosensor design and applications; metrological characterization of photonic-based sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Intelligent Sensors for Condition Monitoring, Diagnosis, and Prognostics

edited by Tianyu Gao,

Yinsheng Chen

, Jianyu Wang and Xiaoli Zhao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5597 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent sensors; measurement; condition monitoring; anomaly detection; fault diagnosis; prognostics; machine learning; deep learning; signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Smart Sensor Systems for Positioning and Navigation

edited by Zhiyuan Luo and

Khuong An Nguyen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5258 | Submission Open

Keywords: indoor positioning; indoor mapping; indoor navigation; smart sensors

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

Intelligent Sensors and Artificial Intelligence in Building

edited by Ke Yan, Xin Li and

Vincent Gan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5213 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Microfluidic Sensors for Biomedical Applications

edited by Nazmul Islam

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4472 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomedical sensors; biologically enable microfluidics; wearable biosensors; biochemical sensing; micro- and nanofluidic bio sensors; BioMEMS devices and systems; transport in biological and molecular systems; biologically enabled microfluidic

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Intelligent Fault Prediction and Health Management Techniques in Manufacturing Systems: 2nd Edition

edited by

Long Wen

, Zhuyun Chen, Chuanjiang Li, Junyu Qi, Gernot Schullerus and

Jianan Wei

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3860 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault prediction; defect detection; artificial intelligence; smart manufacturing

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

Wearable Sensors for Gait, Human Motion Analysis and Health Monitoring: 2nd Edition

edited by

Alessandro Leone

and

Gabriele Rescio

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3581 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors; gait analysis; human motion; biomechanics; health monitoring; home care; assisted living; signal processing; cloud computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Sensor and Data Integration, Analysis and Exchange for Healthcare and Healthy Living

edited by

Carlos Agostinho

and

Luigi Gallo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3574 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart sensor systems and wearables; internet of (medical) things; biosensors and systems; data management and security; data-driven health and care; digital health twins; health data standards; (explainable) artificial intelligence; healthcare systems; healthy living applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Biosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics

edited by

Dacheng Wei

and Derong Kong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3317 | Submission Open

Keywords: point-of-care diagnostics; biosensors; molecular diagnostics; disease detection; healthcare; biomarkers; infectious disease testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensors Development)

Wearable Sensing Technologies for Human Health Monitoring

edited by Jayraj V. Vaghasiya

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3247 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable sensors; telehealth; health monitoring; remote patient monitoring; biometric data; internet of things; biomedical engineering; digital health; smart textiles; data analytics; personalized healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Wearables)

Innovative Approaches in 3D Sensing and Imaging Technologies for Cultural Heritage

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3241 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D heritage documentation; digital twins; sensors and data fusion (visible/multispectral data); artificial intelligence (AI); digital photogrammetry; sensors development and application; lidar mapping; 3D mobile mapping (visual odometry and SLAM-based solution); digital technologies for NDT inspections and diagnostic; neural radiance field (NeRF); 360° photogrammetry and multi-camera 3D mapping

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

Recent Advances in Sensor Array Signal Processing and its Applications in Future Communication and Radar

edited by

Xiaofei Zhang

,

Jianfeng Li

and Wei Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3123 | Submission Open

Keywords: sparse array; signal processing; antenna arrays; MIMO radar

(This special issue belongs to the Section Communications)

Computer Vision and Sensing Technologies for Industrial Quality Inspection: 2nd Edition

edited by

Hong-Dar Lin

,

Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh

and

Hsin-Chieh Wu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2968 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; sensing technologies; industrial quality inspection; automatic optical inspection; artificial intelligence techniques; machine learning; deep learning

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

Intelligent Massive-MIMO Systems and Wireless Communications

edited by

Panagiotis K. Gkonis

,

Petros S. Bithas

and Christos G. Tsinos

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2920 | Submission Open

Keywords: adaptive antennas; MIMO systems; wireless communication; channel modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition, Audio and Underwater Acoustic Signal Analysis

edited by Kele Xu, Rui Liu, Maoshen Jia and Dawei Feng

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2618 | Submission Open

Keywords: automatic speech recognition; audio signal acquisition; audio signal processing; audio and underwater acoustic signal recognition and classification; machine learning and deep learning algorithm application in audio signal analysis; safety and privacy; acceleration and deployment of audio signal processing algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Image Processing and Computer Vision Sensing Technologies in Engineering Applications and Digital Twins

edited by

Stefanos Vrochidis

, Konstantinos Ioannidis and Nikolaos I. Dourvas

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2545 | Submission Open

Keywords: real-time 3D reconstruction using visual data; AI-based digital counterparts of physical objects; SLAM techniques; real-time multi-object detection and localization; aerial imagery and photogrammetry; simulations for predictions on visual data; smart optronics systems

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

Radiation Sensors and Detectors: Materials, Principles and Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by

Michael Moll

and

Xin Shi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2497 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid-state detectors (SSDs); silicon detectors; wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors; radiation-hard diamond; SiC; 3D; LGAD; extreme fluences; plasma diagnostics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)

Sensors and Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation: 2nd Edition

edited by

Paul Fergus

,

Carl Chalmers

and

Serge Wich

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2280 | Submission Open

Keywords: multispectral remote sensing; hyperspectral remote sensing; LiDAR; sensor fusion; land-; sea-; air-; and space-based monitoring; machine learning; convolutional neural networks (1D; 2D; 3D; etc.); high-performance inference; time-series analysis; poaching; wildlife conservation; animal counting; forest monitoring; land-use/cover change; environment monitoring; robotics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)

Recent Advances in Photoelectrochemical Sensors

edited by Jian Wang,

Liping Du

and

Wei Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2227 | Submission Open

Keywords: light-addressable electrochemical sensors; light addressability; photocurrent; photoactive materials; bio-sensitive materials; photoelectrochemistry; multiplexed detection; bio(chemical) imaging; bio(chemical) sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)

Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors: Materials, Methods and Applications

edited by

Zejun Deng

and Tianhan Kai

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2185 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemistry; electrochemical sensors; electrochemical biosensors; electroanalysis; wearable sensors; portable sensors; amperometry; impedimetric; voltammetry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)

Multimodal Perception Modeling Based on Advanced Computational Technologies

edited by

Manuel Gil-Martín

,

Rubén San-Segundo

and

Fernando Fernández-Martínez

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2097 | Submission Open

Keywords: multimodal perceptual modeling; motion recognition; large multimodal language models (MMLLMs); sensor technology; wearable devices; computer vision; multi-sensor fusion; machine learning; deep learning; signal processing; activity recognition; multimedia memorability; attention and aesthetics; persuasion in multimedia; olfactory signals; emotion recognition; gesture data; human– computer interaction; healthcare applications; biometric systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Security, Privacy and Trust in Wireless Sensor Networks

edited by

Weidong Fang

,

Chunsheng Zhu

and

C. H. Wu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2084 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless sensor network; internet of things; edge computing; cyber security; privacy preservation; trust

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

Sensors and Data Analysis for Biomechanics and Physical Activity

edited by Francisco Pinho

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1920 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensors; biomechanics; EMG; IMU; non-linear analysis; machine learning; sports; kinetics; kinematics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

Sensors-Based Healthcare Diagnostics, Monitoring and Medical Devices

edited by

Shih-Lin Wu

and Jen-Jee Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1702 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensor-based diagnostics; monitoring; medical devices; healthcare; real-time healthcare monitoring; early detections and diagnostics; non-wearable/wearable healthcare devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)

Atmospheric Optical Remote Sensing

edited by Chunmin Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1360 | Submission Open

Keywords: atmospheric remote sensing; atmospheric optical imaging; atmospheric optical properties; optical remote sensing data processing; climate monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

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