IoT-Enabled Waste Management in Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The current Special Issue covers research advances in IoT-enabled waste management in Smart Cities. Context-awareness is a service as well as an enabling technology for waste management in Smart Cities. Predictive analytics are based on machine learning and pervasive data science modeling for efficient waste disposal. Research in artificial intelligence, remote monitoring, autonomous systems and robotics is used for effective waste collection. Methods and algorithms combine sensors, sensor networks, wireless access networks, actuators, and IoT platforms. IoT security technologies are used to provide a secure environment for further waste processing. Inference models assist stakeholders and third parties for efficient dynamic scheduling and routing to support waste disposal and further recycling of organic waste. Sustainable waste management solutions are a prerequisite for a green ecosystem within Smart Cities. Research on integrated systems for waste management that adopt one or more of the above described research areas will be accepted to this Special Issue. We invite original research papers, review articles, and short communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

• IoT sensors, sensor networks and actuators for waste management;
• Sensor networks, context-awareness, wireless access networks and IoT security;
• Pervasive data architecture for decision making;
• Machine learning and inference models;
• Artificial intelligence and multi agent modeling;
• Reinforcement learning;
• Robotics for waste collection and further processing;
• Remote monitoring and autonomous systems;
• Waste management as a service;
• Context-aware systems for waste management
• Sustainable solutions for Smart Cities;
• Green and secure ecosystems for Smart Cities.

Dr. Theodoros Anagnostopoulos
Dr. S.R. Jino Ramson
Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky
Prof. Christer Åhlund
Guest Editors

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