Advanced IoT/ICT Technologies in Smart Systems

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has established its position as one of the most important technologies. As inexpensive microcontrollers, costing only a few dollars, are being manufactured and sold, smart systems utilizing these low-power microcontrollers are increasingly employed in research and industry. Examples include agricultural climate environment monitoring, bio-healthcare devices, object recognition, and face recognition using built-in cameras and deep learning, wireless data transmission and reception devices, motors, lighting, water pumps, and robot control.

Traditionally, the development of smart systems required high expertise in hardware and software, mainly by professionals in electrical, electronics, and computer majors. However, with the advent of the Arduino platform in 2005, significant changes came to smart system development. Arduino microcontroller boards and numerous compatible components were developed and made available, along with user-friendly software development tools and environments, facilitating the creation of embedded programs needed for microcontrollers. Most importantly, various contributors to the Arduino ecosystem share circuit diagrams and source code online, making it easy to acquire the information necessary for smart system development.

Smart systems will be further developed and utilized in research and industry since they can not only automatically perform various tasks such as data collection, transmission, and control but can also communicate with center servers and other devices. For this Special Issue, we invite submissions that explore advanced research and recent progress in the development and application of Arduino-based smart systems across various research and industrial fields. In addition, comprehensive reviews and survey papers as well as experimental studies are also welcome. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 3D printing;
• Animal/human diagnostics;
• Arduino development tools/software, Arduino programming, coding, and Arduino-based software;
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DNN, YOLO, Transformer, CNN, R-CNN);
• Assistive devices, healthcare devices, wearable devices, and alarm systems;
• Automatic control (drone/robot/motor/valve/pump/light control) and automation (home, factory, laboratory);
• Cloud, parallel computing, and edge computing;
• Data acquisition, transmission, and encryption;
• Drone/robot/motor/valve/pump/light control;
• Global Positioning System (GPS);
• Graphical user interface (GUI);
• Imaging, imaging devices (ESP32-CAM, thermal/IR/multispectral camera), and image processing/analysis;
• Microcontrollers (ATmega, ATtiny, UNO, Nano, ESP32, STM32, ESP8266, Raspberry PI);
• Object detection and face recognition;
• Recording and voice recognition/analysis;
• Remote sensing, biosensors, and plant/crop health monitoring;
• Smart cities, smart factories, smart homes, smart farms, and smart manufacturing;
• Transportation and autonomous driving;
• Wireless communication (WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa, ZigBee, RFID).

Dr. Sang-Kyu Jung
Guest Editor

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• smart system
• Arduino
• microcontroller
• IoT
• ICT