Calibration and Traceability in Sensor Networks
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 April 2022) | Viewed by 893
Special Issue Editors
Interests: development and metrological characterization of intelligent instrumentation, validation of automatic calibration systems, long-term monitoring of plants based on renewable energy, design and development of wearable devices for the monitoring of the activity of voice professionals
Interests: measurement instruments; sensors; optical fiber sensors; plastic optical fibers
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Dear Colleagues,
The growing attention towards human-related issues such as energy saving, safety monitoring, and pollution measurement, combined with the requirements of smart manufacturing, have driven the development of data-acquisition systems with a large number of embedded sensors. These data acquisition systems are often configured as sensor networks or more recently as networks composed of IoT sensor nodes, thus taking advantage of well-established digital architectures and optimized communication protocols. However, a problem still remains open related to the traceability assurance of the measurements provided by single nodes of a sensor network or by a set of nodes that cooperate to provide the quantities under measurement. The common calibration procedures that are implemented for stand-alone instruments are not suitable for sensor networks that can include hundreds or thousands of nodes and that can also be distributed over a wide area.
This Special Issue is addressed to innovative calibration paradigms that can be effective in ensuring the traceability of systems that cannot be managed according to existing calibration procedures. These new paradigms can rely on sensor nodes with embedded auto-calibration capabilities and/or on calibration systems that are based on the in-field comparison between sensor outputs and remotely-exercised reference standards.
Dr. Alessio Carullo
Dr. Alberto Vallan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Measurement
- Uncertainty
- Calibration
- Traceability assurance
- Traveling standards
- Interconnected systems
- Large-scale systems
- Internetworking
- Wired sensor networks
- Wireless sensor networks
- IoT sensor nodes
- IoT sensor networks
