Sensor Network Applications for Environmental Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2024 | Viewed by 2279
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, 4804-533 Guimarães, Portugal
Interests: software design and reuse; middleware frameworks; object-oriented techniques; reusability; mobile applications; monitoring and automation systems; embedded systems based on microcontrollers
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2. Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, 4804-533 Guimarães, Portugal
Interests: sensors; actuators; electronics
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2 LABBELS—Associate Laboratory, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
3 Department of Industrial Electronics, University of Minho, Campus of Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Interests: Internet of Things; wireless sensor networks; body sensor network; mobile phone sensing; quality of service; medium access control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human activity has a significant impact in nature and living conditions. In this sense, monitoring is crucial to provide data that enable the maintenance of healthy environments, whether on land, in the water or in the air, and control systems may also be implemented based on readings of relevant parameters. Sensor networks allow the monitoring of variables that characterize environmental conditions over large areas or during extended periods, at a much lower cost than approaches based, for example, on data loggers. IoT (Internet of Things) offers a practical way of storing and accessing all data and is the most probable model for environment sensing applications.
Recent advances in communications technology, such as in LPWANs (low-power wide-area networks), offer much more flexible and wider monitoring solutions. Depending on the application, monitoring systems can use short-range sensor networks, such as ZigBee or BLE (Bluetooth low-energy), wide-area sensor networks, such as LoRa, or a direct connection to the Internet, such as by using NB-IoT (narrowband IoT). Processing platforms, such as microcontrollers, have also evolved and offer advanced as well as flexible control over power consumption, which enable the achievement of higher energy autonomy or the use of batteries with a lower capacity. Additionally, sensors are systems’ interfaces to the real world and range from transducers that need to be calibrated and linearized to advanced units with digital interfaces.
This Special Issue addresses studies whose objective is the monitoring and/or characterization of environments through the measurement of relevant parameters. Thus, the focus is on applications of sensor network technologies to monitor, for example, water resources/availability, water pollution, air quality, forest fires, soil conditions for agriculture, disposal of waste/garbage, state of natural heritage and ecosystems for protection/preservation, etc.
Dr. Sérgio F. Lopes
Prof. Dr. Luis Gonçalves
Dr. José A. Afonso
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensors for environmental monitoring
- energy harvesting
- energy efficiency
- network technologies and applications
- application protocols
- processing platforms/devices
- data management
- Internet of Things
