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  • Review
  • Open Access
134 Citations
8,757 Views
32 Pages

Remote Big Data Management Tools, Sensing and Computing Technologies, and Visual Perception and Environment Mapping Algorithms in the Internet of Robotic Things

  • Mihai Andronie,
  • George Lăzăroiu,
  • Oana Ludmila Karabolevski,
  • Roxana Ștefănescu,
  • Iulian Hurloiu,
  • Adrian Dijmărescu and
  • Irina Dijmărescu

The purpose of our systematic review was to inspect the recently published research on Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) and harmonize the assimilations it articulates on remote big data management tools, sensing and computing technologies, and visua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,201 Views
24 Pages

29 August 2023

The metaverse, as an envisioned paradigm of the future internet, aims to establish an immersive and multidimensional virtual space in which global users can interact with one another, as in the real world. With the rapid development of emerging techn...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,096 Views
69 Pages

16 October 2025

Early detection and diagnosis of plant diseases is critical for ensuring global food security and sustainable agricultural practices. This review comprehensively examines latest advancements in crop disease risk prediction, onset detection through im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
21,789 Views
18 Pages

Cyborgs and Enhancement Technology

  • Woodrow Barfield and
  • Alexander Williams

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century there is a major trend to enhance the body with “cyborg technology”. In fact, due to medical necessity, there are currently millions of people worldwide equipped with prosthetic devices to restore lost...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,204 Views
29 Pages

21 May 2024

Bridges are critical components of transportation networks, and their conditions have effects on societal well-being, the economy, and the environment. Automation needs in inspections and maintenance have made structural health monitoring (SHM) syste...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,409 Views
29 Pages

Technological Progress Toward Peanut Disease Management: A Review

  • Muhammad Asif,
  • Aleena Rayamajhi and
  • Md Sultan Mahmud

19 February 2025

Peanut (Arachis hypogea L.) crops in the southeastern U.S. suffer significant yield losses from diseases like leaf spot, southern blight, and stem rot. Traditionally, growers use conventional boom sprayers, which often leads to overuse and wastage of...

  • Review
  • Open Access

Research Advances in Decision-Making Technologies for Precision Pesticide Application in Crops

  • Xiaofu Feng,
  • Tongye Shi,
  • Huimin Wu,
  • Mengran Yang,
  • Mengyao Luo,
  • Jiali Li and
  • Changling Wang

12 March 2026

Global agricultural production is severely threatened by the intensification of crop diseases and pests. Traditional pesticide application methods, characterized by inefficiency and frequent phytotoxicity, necessitate the urgent development of smart...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,608 Views
24 Pages

Computer-Vision-Based Sensing Technologies for Livestock Body Dimension Measurement: A Survey

  • Weihong Ma,
  • Yi Sun,
  • Xiangyu Qi,
  • Xianglong Xue,
  • Kaixuan Chang,
  • Zhankang Xu,
  • Mingyu Li,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Rui Meng and
  • Qifeng Li

26 February 2024

Livestock’s live body dimensions are a pivotal indicator of economic output. Manual measurement is labor-intensive and time-consuming, often eliciting stress responses in the livestock. With the advancement of computer technology, the technique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,605 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2023

Virtual Reality is expanding its use to several fields of application, including health and education. The continuous growth of this technology comes with new challenges related to the ways in which users feel inside these virtual environments. There...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,788 Views
17 Pages

Wireless Signal Propagation Prediction Based on Computer Vision Sensing Technology for Forestry Security Monitoring

  • Jialuan He,
  • Zirui Xing,
  • Tianqi Xiang,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Yinghai Zhou,
  • Chuanyu Xi and
  • Hai Lu

24 August 2021

In this paper, Computer Vision (CV) sensing technology based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is introduced to process topographic maps for predicting wireless signal propagation models, which are applied in the field of forestry security monito...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,745 Views
19 Pages

Gesture recognition, as a core technology of human–computer interaction, has broad application prospects and brings new technical possibilities for smart homes, medical care, sports training, and other fields. Compared with the traditional huma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
789 Views
19 Pages

Indoor Object Measurement Through a Redundancy and Comparison Method

  • Pedro Faria,
  • Tomás Simões,
  • Tiago Marques and
  • Peter D. Finn

4 November 2025

Accurate object detection and measurement within indoor environments—particularly unfurnished or minimalistic spaces—pose unique challenges for conventional computer vision methods. Previous research has been limited to small objects that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,952 Views
39 Pages

Desktop Virtual Worlds (DVWs) offer unique spatial affordances for education, yet understanding of how these environments support meaningful learning experiences remains limited. This study introduces the Socio-Spatial Embodiment Model, a novel frame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,824 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2024

The demands for growth and prosperity in developing countries have prompted Ogun State to initiate six economic development clusters oriented around its urban areas. However, little attention has been given to the environmental impact of these cluste...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
11,975 Views
28 Pages

17 October 2021

The widespread use of mobile devices and sensors has motivated data-driven applications that can leverage the power of big data to benefit many aspects of our daily life, such as health, transportation, economy, and environment. Under the context of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,189 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2022

This is the first pilot study with children that has assessed the effects of a brain–computer interface-assisted mindfulness program on neural mechanisms and associated cognitive performance. The participants were 31 children aged 9–10 ye...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,575 Views
19 Pages

25 January 2021

Traditional in-app virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) applications pose a challenge of reaching users due to their dependency on operating systems (Android, iOS). Besides, it is difficult for general users to create their own VR/AR applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,998 Views
22 Pages

FPGA–STM32-Embedded Vision and Control Platform for ADAS Development on a 1:5 Scale Vehicle

  • Karen Roa-Tort,
  • Diego A. Fabila-Bustos,
  • Macaria Hernández-Chávez,
  • Daniel León-Martínez,
  • Adrián Apolonio-Vera,
  • Elizama B. Ortega-Gutiérrez,
  • Luis Cadena-Martínez,
  • Carlos D. Hernández-Lozano,
  • César Torres-Pérez and
  • Josué D. Rivera-Fernández
  • + 2 authors

17 August 2025

This paper presents the design, development, and experimental validation of a low-cost, modular, and scalable Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) platform intended for research and educational purposes. The system integrates embedded computer vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,166 Views
13 Pages

The persistent threat posed by infectious pathogens remains a formidable challenge for humanity. Rapidly spreading infectious diseases caused by airborne microorganisms have far-reaching global consequences, imposing substantial costs on society. Whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
969 Views
30 Pages

Towards Explainable Multimodal Sensing for Swimming Analysis: Early Findings from the SWIM-360 Project

  • Vanessa Camilleri,
  • Reno Yuri Camilleri,
  • Mark Fialovszky,
  • Daniel Pace,
  • Dylan Seychell and
  • Matthew Montebello

18 November 2025

Swimming performance analysis increasingly depends on multimodal sensing systems that capture physiological and biomechanical signals in real-world aquatic environments. While progress has been made in sensor fidelity and automated analysis, the inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,766 Views
18 Pages

Multiscale Sensing of Bone-Implant Loosening for Multifunctional Smart Bone Implants: Using Capacitive Technologies for Precision Controllability

  • Inês Peres,
  • Pedro Rolo,
  • Jorge A. F. Ferreira,
  • Susana C. Pinto,
  • Paula A. A. P. Marques,
  • António Ramos and
  • Marco P. Soares dos Santos

25 March 2022

The world population growth and average life expectancy rise have increased the number of people suffering from non-communicable diseases, namely osteoarthritis, a disorder that causes a significant increase in the years lived with disability. Many p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,125 Views
29 Pages

7 June 2023

Several assistive technology solutions, targeting the group of Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI), have been proposed in the literature utilizing multi-sensor data fusion techniques. Furthermore, several commercial systems are currently being used in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,366 Views
40 Pages

3 December 2024

In-memory sensing and computing devices integrate the functionalities of sensors, memory, and processors, offering advantages such as low power consumption, high bandwidth, and zero latency, making them particularly suitable for simulating synaptic b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,780 Views
14 Pages

Integrated Communication, Sensing, and Computation Framework for 6G Networks

  • Xu Chen,
  • Zhiyong Feng,
  • J. Andrew Zhang,
  • Zhaohui Yang,
  • Xin Yuan,
  • Xinxin He and
  • Ping Zhang

7 May 2024

In the sixth generation (6G) era, intelligent machine network (IMN) applications, such as intelligent transportation, require collaborative machines with communication, sensing, and computation (CSC) capabilities. This article proposes an integrated...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,324 Views
20 Pages

Cloud-Based Remote Sensing for Wetland Monitoring—A Review

  • Abdallah Yussuf Ali Abdelmajeed,
  • Mar Albert-Saiz,
  • Anshu Rastogi and
  • Radosław Juszczak

19 March 2023

The rapid expansion of remote sensing provides recent and developed advances in monitoring wetlands. Integrating cloud computing with these techniques has been identified as an effective tool, especially for dealing with heterogeneous datasets. In th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,056 Views
38 Pages

22 December 2025

The rapid development of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) has created unprecedented demands for distributed, long-term, and maintenance-free sensing systems. Conventional battery-powered sensors suffer from inherent drawbacks such as limi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,763 Views
25 Pages

6 February 2023

The ornamental crop industry is an important contributor to the economy in the United States. The industry has been facing challenges due to continuously increasing labor and agricultural input costs. Sensing and automation technologies have been int...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,253 Views
5 Pages

14 June 2019

As computer and space technologies have been developed, geoscience information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) technologies, which deal with the geospatial information, have been maturing rapidly [...]

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,693 Views
37 Pages

A Review of Deep Learning-Based Methods for Road Extraction from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

  • Ruyi Liu,
  • Junhong Wu,
  • Wenyi Lu,
  • Qiguang Miao,
  • Huan Zhang,
  • Xiangzeng Liu,
  • Zixiang Lu and
  • Long Li

7 June 2024

Road extraction from high-resolution remote sensing images has long been a focal and challenging research topic in the field of computer vision. Accurate extraction of road networks holds extensive practical value in various fields, such as urban pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,022 Views
16 Pages

25 August 2023

A large number of raw data collected by satellites are processed by the production chain to obtain a large number of product data, of which the secure exchange and storage is of interest to researchers in the field of remote sensing information scien...

  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
18,526 Views
29 Pages

Real-Time Object Detection Based on UAV Remote Sensing: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Zhen Cao,
  • Lammert Kooistra,
  • Wensheng Wang,
  • Leifeng Guo and
  • João Valente

3 October 2023

Real-time object detection based on UAV remote sensing is widely required in different scenarios. In the past 20 years, with the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), remote sensing technology, deep learning technology, and edge computing te...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,623 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2023

Deep learning approaches are gaining popularity in image feature analysis and in attaining state-of-the-art performances in scene classification of remote sensing imagery. This article presents a comprehensive review of the developments of various co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
85 Citations
20,359 Views
35 Pages

Smart Energy Meters for Smart Grids, an Internet of Things Perspective

  • Yousaf Murtaza Rind,
  • Muhammad Haseeb Raza,
  • Muhammad Zubair,
  • Muhammad Qasim Mehmood and
  • Yehia Massoud

16 February 2023

Smart energy has evolved over the years to include multiple domains integrated across multiple technology themes, such as electricity, smart grid, and logistics, linked through communication technology and processed in the cloud in a holistic way to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,930 Views
25 Pages

A Comprehensive Survey on Wi-Fi Sensing for Human Identity Recognition

  • Pengsong Duan,
  • Xianguang Diao,
  • Yangjie Cao,
  • Dalong Zhang,
  • Bo Zhang and
  • Jinsheng Kong

1 December 2023

In recent years, Wi-Fi sensing technology has become an emerging research direction of human–computer interaction due to its advantages of low cost, contactless, illumination insensitivity, and privacy preservation. At present, Wi-Fi sensing re...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,181 Views
3 Pages

5G-V2X Communications and Networking for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

  • Antonella Molinaro,
  • Claudia Campolo,
  • Jérôme Härri,
  • Christian Esteve Rothenberg and
  • Alexey Vinel

In the last decade, there has been a surge in interest in connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and related enabling technologies in the fields of communication, automation, computing, sensing, and positioning [...]

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,952 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2023

With the popularization of intelligent sensing and the improvement of modern medical technology, intelligent medical sensing technology has emerged as the times require. This technology combines basic disciplines such as physics, mathematics, and mat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,398 Views
18 Pages

The Role of Phase-Change Memory in Edge Computing and Analog In-Memory Computing: An Overview of Recent Research Contributions and Future Challenges

  • Alessio Antolini,
  • Francesco Zavalloni,
  • Andrea Lico,
  • Said Quqa,
  • Lorenzo Greco,
  • Mauro Mangia,
  • Fabio Pareschi,
  • Marco Pasotti and
  • Eleonora Franchi Scarselli

9 June 2025

Phase Change Memory (PCM) has emerged as a promising non-volatile memory technology with significant applications in both edge computing and analog in-memory computing. This paper synthesizes recent research contributions on the use of PCM for smart...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,171 Views
29 Pages

A Survey on Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Computing Networks for Smart Oceans

  • Minghui Dai,
  • Yang Li,
  • Peichun Li,
  • Yuan Wu,
  • Liping Qian,
  • Bin Lin and
  • Zhou Su

The smart ocean has been regarded as an integrated sensing, communication, and computing ecosystem developed for connecting marine objects in surface and underwater environments. The development of the smart ocean is expected to support a variety of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,476 Views
27 Pages

3 April 2025

Remote vital sensing in veterinary medicine is a relatively new area of practice, which involves the acquisition of data without invasion of the body cavities of live animals. This paper aims to review several technologies in remote vital sensing: in...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,834 Views
2 Pages

Special Issue: Smart Resilient Manufacturing

  • Jinzhi Lu,
  • Xiaochen Zheng and
  • Dimitris Kiritsis

29 December 2022

During the past decades, the global manufacturing industries have been reshaped by the rapid development of advanced technologies, such as cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, cloud/edge computin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,454 Views
18 Pages

Hardware Acceleration and Implementation of YOLOX-s for On-Orbit FPGA

  • Ling Wang,
  • Hai Zhou,
  • Chunjiang Bian,
  • Kangning Jiang and
  • Xiaolei Cheng

26 October 2022

The rapid development of remote sensing technology has brought about a sharp increase in the amount of remote sensing image data. However, due to the satellite’s limited hardware resources, space, and power consumption constraints, it is diffic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
15,597 Views
20 Pages

Fire Detection with Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Review

  • Rodrigo N. Vasconcelos,
  • Washington J. S. Franca Rocha,
  • Diego P. Costa,
  • Soltan G. Duverger,
  • Mariana M. M. de Santana,
  • Elaine C. B. Cambui,
  • Jefferson Ferreira-Ferreira,
  • Mariana Oliveira,
  • Leonardo da Silva Barbosa and
  • Carlos Leandro Cordeiro

17 October 2024

Wildfires are a critical driver of landscape transformation on Earth, representing a dynamic and ephemeral process that poses challenges for accurate early detection. To address this challenge, researchers have increasingly turned to deep learning te...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access

Advances and Outlook in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  • Alexander Barkalov,
  • Larysa Titarenko and
  • Kazimierz Krzywicki

12 March 2026

Electrical, electronics, and communications engineering continue to play a central role in modern technological development, underpinning the digital infrastructure that enables computation, connectivity, sensing, and control across virtually all sec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,109 Views
23 Pages

12 February 2024

Digital twin technology has become increasingly popular and has revolutionized data integration and system modeling across various industries, such as manufacturing, energy, and healthcare. This study aims to explore the evolving research landscape o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,586 Views
23 Pages

29 October 2024

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) has received great attention as a promising technology for providing stable power to energy-constrained devices by navigating three-dimensional (3D) space, particularly in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,511 Views
16 Pages

A Context-Aware Edge Computing Framework for Smart Internet of Things

  • Abdelkarim Ben Sada,
  • Abdenacer Naouri,
  • Amar Khelloufi,
  • Sahraoui Dhelim and
  • Huansheng Ning

22 April 2023

The data explosion caused by the rapid and widespread use of IoT devices is placing tremendous pressure on current communication, computing and storage resources. In an ambient ubiquitous computing environment, taking advantage of the context of the...

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