Wearable Devices and Sensors for Innovative Monitoring Systems in the 4.0 Era (Volume II)
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2024 | Viewed by 427
Special Issue Editors
Interests: communication systems and networks test and measurement; measurements for Internet of Things applications; compressive sampling based measurements; measurements for Industry 4.0; measurement uncertainty
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Interests: aumented reality; AR application in infustrial installations; measurements; security technologies for critical infrastructures
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Interests: dielectric characterization of materials; microwave reflectometry systems for monitoring applications; 4.0-based measurement systems; measurements for augmented reality systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, “Wearable Devices and Sensors for Innovative Monitoring Systems in the 4.0 Era”.
While the concept of Industry 4.0 has become widely known, the principles and driving forces of this new paradigm have started leveraging other application contexts, such as healthcare, public administration, and agriculture, to name a few examples. This has led to the adoption of a more comprehensive and general expression, Era 4.0, which perfectly indicates the pervasiveness of this concept.
The concept of the 4.0 Era relies on several enabling technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), and especially on the acquisition and processing of data gathered from sensors and systems. These sensors must allow monitoring not only the operating environment i.e., machineries, workflow, digital paper trails, but also the people who operate in it.
In this regard, a major research challenge still remains—the need to facilitate a seamless interaction of the people/users with the sensory environment and with the IoT infrastructure, possibly without compromising the user’s comfort and activities.
In such a context, wearable sensors and monitoring systems represent the best candidates to facilitate this process and may become the new interface between the “real” and the digital world.
With these considerations in mind, the present Special Issue welcomes research contributions focused on innovative wearable devices and sensing solutions for monitoring systems in the 4.0 Era.
The topic of the proposed Special Issue encompasses most of the areas that are included in the aims and scope of the Sensors journal, namely:
- Physical sensors;
- Sensor networks;
- Smart/Intelligent sensors;
- Sensor devices;
- Sensor technology and application;
- Sensing principles;
- Micro- and nano-sensors;
- Internet of Things;
- Signal processing, data fusion, and deep learning;
- In-sensor systems;
- Sensor interface;
- Human–computer interaction;
- Sensing systems;
- MEMS/NEMS;
- Localization and object tracking.
Prof. Dr. Leopoldo Angrisani
Dr. Annarita Tedesco
Prof. Dr. Egidio De Benedetto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Era 4.0
- Industry 4.0
- IoT
- smart monitoring
- smart sensors
- wearable user interfaces
- wearable monitoring systems
- wearable devices
- wearable sensors
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Multiparameter Sending for AM Pressure Vessel using Embedded Fiber Optic Sensor
Authors: Hyung Bae; Haijun Liu
Affiliation: Affiliation 1: The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA; hyung.bae@howard.edu
Affiliation 2: The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA; haijun@temple.edu
Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) has been investigated and applied for various applications for its versatility in generating complex geometry and short turnaround time. By embedding various kinds of sensors, structures fabricated by AM can be more appealing due to the added sensing capabilities. In this work, fiber optic sensors are embedded in an AM pressure vessel with a high temperature polymer material for multiparameter sensing during the FDM process. The embedded sensors show good linearities and resolutions in pressure and temperature measurement. The experimental study shows promising results of the simultaneous measurement capability of the sensors. The proposed sensor can be applied for various applications that require high accuracy pressure and temperature measurement in harsh environments.
