5G-Enabled IoT for Smart Homes
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 1033
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart cities and ICT for mobility; fixed/mobile communication systems and networks; professional communication systems and network design; digital media and image/video processing; smart living and build automation; industrial vision; NDT and video-surveillance systems
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Interests: telecommunications; multimedia; wireless sensor networks; 5G mobile communication
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Interests: cognitive radio; broadcasting technologies; IoT and Social IoT; multisensorial media
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The emerging 5G technology is characterized by high-bandwidth and real-time capabilities which hold interesting potentials for society by enabling many new use cases, such as: virtual and augmented reality, autonomous driving, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT), as well as multi-gigabit wireless mobile broadband and fixed broadband wireless access. The first 5G standard is called New Radio (NR), developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The standard’s development continues to evolve to reach lower latency, faster data rates, improved coverage, and higher reliability, by taking into account the presence of multiple devices per user and, consequently, a growing number of connections. 5G needs to provide for the massive deployment of IoT, offering acceptable levels of energy consumption, equipment cost, network deployment, and operation cost.
The Smart Home (SH) environment is a typical IoT use case, which implies connecting various household appliances to a central device or directly to the cloud, from which a user can control and monitor them. At present, the SH concept is fragmented, as the user is frequently forced to use heterogeneous mechanisms or platforms across the home environment in order to gain access and interact with all devices. 5G technologies can enable every conceivable area of control for residential environments: control of utilities such as lighting; heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems; automated windows; pool and spa controls; security, such as garage and access controls; the local or remote control of home appliances; as well as entertainment systems, such as home theatres and digital video recorders.
The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together innovative developments and applications of IoT SH systems and the emerging 5G technology. Papers addressing new insights in the development, application, and performance benefits of using and monitoring all the objects in an SH environment improving methods and technology are welcome. Articles may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- New development of 5G-based SH solutions;
- Defragmenting methods for IoT SH systems;
- Integration of IoT systems in SH environment;
- Emerging 5G standards for new IoT SH systems and applications;
- 5G limits and strengths for the development of IoT SH solutions;
- Cloud solutions for SH systems;
- Use cases of 5G based SH solutions;
- Architecture proposal for 5G-based IoT SH systems;
- Privacy issues and solutions in 5G-based IoT SH systems and applications.
Prof. Dr. Daniele Giusto
Dr. Mauro Fadda
Dr. Vlad Popescu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 5G
- IoT
- smart home
- 5G-based solutions
- IoT SH architecture
- 5G standards
- cloud
- private data and sensitive data
