Recent Advances in Sensor Networks for Smart Cities

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, the size and population of cities have increased drastically. This massive growth in population poses a significant constraint on resources in several dimensions of daily life in urban areas, such as the quality of service of healthcare, education, the environment, public safety, and security. Thus, new methods must be put in place for these cities to be sustainably managed. The extensive implementation of pervasive and mobile computing systems has given rise to the term “smart cities”; smart cities are designed around sustainable city growth and lead to significant enhancements in city management and life in the above-mentioned sectors in various dimensions, such as rainwater harvesting, energy efficiency, traffic congestion, pollution reduction, parking space, public safety, and recreation. Smart cities have been made possible in recent years because of the availability of commodity low-power sensors, smartphones, tablets, and the necessary wireless networking infrastructure which, along with technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data processing, can be used to resolve the challenges of sustainable urban environments. AI algorithms are becoming an integral part of smart city initiatives that intend to automate and improve a wide range of municipal activities and operations. These programs differ widely from case to case, but most of them generally share the goals of improving living conditions, making cities more competitive and making them more environmentally sustainable.

This Special Issue intends to highlight advances in developing sensing technologies, as well as implementation and application in smart cities. Advanced sensing systems are used to improve the performance of city services. Our ultimate aim is to provide readers with a clear understanding of the recent techniques developed in relation to this topic by describing new technologies and applications, and suggesting new features and ideas in the field of sensors and sensing systems dedicated to smart cities. We invite authors to submit articles describing promising original research results with state-of-the-art methods.

Dr. Mohamed Elhoseny
Guest Editor

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