Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare genetic disorder that cannot be cured by current medical techniques. With the development of the disease, the life of patients will become more and more difficult. It is necessary to timely and effectively ev...
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...
Strain-based condition evaluation has garnered as a crucial method for the structural health monitoring (SHM) of large-scale engineering structures. The use of traditional wired strain sensors becomes tedious and time-consuming due to their complex w...
In recent years, wireless sensor network (WSN) technology has emerged as an important technique for wireless sensing of soil moisture from the field to the catchment scale. This review paper presents the current status of wireless sensor network (WSN...
Recently, with advancements in Deep Learning (DL) technology, Radio Frequency (RF) sensing has seen substantial improvements, particularly in outdoor applications. Motivated by these developments, this survey presents a comprehensive review of state-...
The development of wearable sensors is aimed at enabling continuous real-time health monitoring, which leads to timely and precise diagnosis anytime and anywhere. Unlike conventional wearable sensors that are somewhat bulky, rigid, and planar, resear...
Magnetoelectric (ME) devices combining piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials have emerged as powerful tools to miniaturize and enhance sensing and communication technologies. This paper examines recent developments in bulk acoustic wave (BAW)...
Background: A nanomaterial-based electronic-skin (E-Skin) wearable sensor has been successfully used for detecting and measuring body movements such as finger movement and foot pressure. The ultrathin and highly sensitive characteristics of E-Skin se...
Wireless contactless human activity sensing is a new type of sensing method that uses the propagation characteristics of wireless signals to accurately perceive and understand human behavior. However, facing the huge amount of newly generated data an...
Emotions significantly impact human physical and mental health, and, therefore, emotion recognition has been a popular research area in neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. In this paper, we preprocess the raw signals acquired by millimeter-wave r...
Recent standardization efforts on low-power wireless communication technologies, including time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) and DASH7 Alliance Mode (D7AM), are starting to change industrial sensing applications, enabling networks to scale up to th...
In this paper, we propose an intelligent lecturer tracking and capturing (ILTC) system to automatically record course videos. Real-time and stable lecturer localization is realized by combining face detection with infrared (IR) thermal sensors, preve...
As human society develops, the population is growing explosively and water and land resources are gradually being exhausted due to pollution. Smart agriculture is regarded as having an essential role in addressing the above challenges. Smart agricult...
In recent years, wireless sensors have progressively supplanted conventional limited sensors owing to their attributes of small size, low cost, and high accuracy. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in leveraging wireless sensor networks...
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the use of highly nonlinear solitary waves (HNSWs) for nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring applications. HNSWs are mechanical waves that can form and travel in highly no...
Coffee Leaf Rust (CLR) is a fungal epidemic disease that has been affecting coffee trees around the world since the 1980s. The early diagnosis of CLR would contribute strategically to minimize the impact on the crops and, therefore, protect the farme...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) assessment is crucial for evaluating soil health and supporting carbon sequestration efforts. Traditional methods like wet digestion and dry combustion are time-consuming and labor-intensive, necessitating the development of...
(1) Background: With technological advancements, the integration of wireless sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential for real-time monitoring and intervention. Wireless sensing devices have been applied to various medical a...
Wireless networks have been widely deployed with a high demand for wireless data traffic. The ubiquitous availability of wireless signals brings new opportunities for non-intrusive human activity sensing. To enhance a thorough understanding of existi...
In recent years, with the rapid development in wireless communication and 5G networks, the rapid growth in mobile users has been accompanied by an increasing demand for the electromagnetic spectrum. The birth of cognitive radio and its spectrum-sensi...
In recent years, tremendous advances have been made in the design and applications of wireless networks and embedded sensors. The combination of sophisticated sensors with wireless communication has introduced new applications, which can simplify hum...
With the rapid advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, the demand for wireless sensing and communication is increasingly prominent. Tens of thousands of sensing and communication nodes have presented new challenges to distributed energy. As...
The advancement of sensing technologies, embedded systems, wireless communication technologies, nanomaterials, miniaturization, vision sensing and processing speed have made it possible to develop smart technologies that can generate data seamlessly...
Wireless sensing is a crucial technology for building smart cities, playing a vital role in applications such as human monitoring, route planning, and traffic management. Analyzing the data provided by wireless sensing enables the formulation of more...
The cognitive wireless sensor network (CWSN) is an important development direction of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and spectrum sensing technology is an essential prerequisite for CWSN to achieve spectrum sharing. However, the existing non-cooper...
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...
Against the backdrop of increasing demands for the safety and longevity of the bridge infrastructure, this review synthesizes the recent advances in structural health monitoring (SHM) sensing systems. Carbon nanotube (CNT), piezoelectric, RFID, wirel...
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are a class of metamaterials that have gained significant attention in recent years due to their potential to revolutionize wireless communication, sensing, and imaging technologies. RISs consist of a planar...
Agricultural sustainability is becoming more and more important for human health. Wireless sensing technology could provide smart monitoring in real time for different parameters in planting, breeding, and the food supply chain with advanced sensors...
Today’s wireless activity recognition research still needs to be practical, mainly due to the limited sensing range and weak through-wall effect of the current wireless activity recognition based on Wi-Fi, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification,...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, capable of wirelessly processing large amounts of information, is gaining attention with the advancement of IoT technology. RFID systems can be utilized as Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology by...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors, integrating the features of Wireless Information and Power Transfer (WIPT), object identification and energy efficient sensing capabilities, have been considered a new paradigm of sensing and communicati...
Underground displacement monitoring is a crucial means of preventing geological disasters. Compared to existing one-dimensional methods (measuring only horizontal or vertical displacement), the underground displacement three-dimensional measurement m...
Wireless chemical sensors have been developed as a result of advances in chemical sensing and wireless communication technology. Because of their mobility and widespread availability, smartphones have been extensively combined with sensors such as ha...
Wireless, sensor and actuator technologies are often central to sensing or communication critical systems [...]
At the dawn of the next-generation wireless systems and networks, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in combination with leading-edge technologies, methodologies, and architectures are poised to be a cornerstone technology. Capitalizing on...
The development of wearable electronics has emphasized user-comfort, convenience, security, and improved medical functionality. Several previous research studies transformed various types of sensors into a wearable form to more closely monitor body s...
An attachable electromagnetic-energy-harvester driven wireless vibration-sensing system for monitoring milling-processes and cutter-wear/breakage-conditions is demonstrated. The system includes an electromagnetic energy harvester, three single-axis M...
Recent years have witnessed tremendous advances in the design and applications of wirelessly networked and embedded sensors. Wireless sensor nodes are typically low-cost, low-power, small devices equipped with limited sensing, data processing and wir...
With the development of wireless communication technology, cognitive radio needs to solve the spectrum sensing problem of wideband wireless signals. Due to performance limitation of electronic components, it is difficult to complete spectrum sensing...
This paper addresses the practical implementation of a wireless sensors network designed to actualize cyber-physical systems that are dedicated to structural health monitoring applications in the construction domain. This network consists of a mesh g...
Since the previous special issue: State-of-the-Art Sensor Technology in Japan in 2008, which collected papers on sensing technology for monitoring of humans and the environment, we have experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami on 11 March...
A low-power wireless acoustic sensing platform for remote surveillance applications based on a 180 nm CMOS technology is proposed in this paper. The audio signal, which is acquired by a microphone, is first amplified and filtered. Then, the analog si...
This Special Issue is focused on recent advances in integrated monitoring and modelling technologies for agriculture and forestry. The selected contributions cover a wide range of topics, including wireless field sensing systems, satellite and UAV re...
By integrating sensing capability into wireless communication, wireless sensing technology has become a promising contactless and non-line-of-sight sensing paradigm to explore the dynamic characteristics of channel state information (CSI) for recogni...
Technological advancements have led to increased confidence in the design of large-scale wireless networks that comprise small energy constraint devices. Despite the boost in technological advancements, energy dissipation and fault tolerance are amon...
This work reports a novel wireless microfluidic biosensor based on low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology. The wireless biosensor consists of a planar spiral inductor and parallel plate capacitor (LC) resonant antenna, which integrates wi...
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is currently highly demanded in multiple scenarios and in particular plays an important role in solving medical-related challenges. RF and microwave technologies, coupled with wireless energy transfer, are intere...
In this article, an extreme environment-capable temperature sensing system based on state-of-art silicon carbide (SiC) wireless electronics is presented. In conjunction with a Pt-Pb thermocouple, the SiC wireless sensor suite is operable at 450 °C wh...
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is envisioned as a foundational technology for future wireless networks, enabling simultaneous wireless communication and environmental sensing using shared resources. A key challenge in ISAC systems lies i...
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