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Prof. Dr. Joan Lu

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Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
Interests: mobile computing; smart home technologies; distributed systems; data science

Dr. Qiang Xu

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School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
Interests: theoretic computational modeling in multiple disciplinary applications
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Dear Colleagues,

Intelligent sensors are applied for a wide range of applications, e.g., traffic control systems, home electronical facilities, healthcare detective devices, etc. With facilitating AI theory and technologies, big data science, advanced wireless sensor actuators, signal processing, and advanced embedded systems, sensors become smart, powerful, and sustainable technologies that are beneficial to society.

This Special Issue is to invite scholars submitting high-quality original articles in the area of intelligent sensors with relevant technologies, theories, and applications that are contributed to build up smart homes or smart cities. The research papers may address, but are not limited to, the following: (1) the impact of intelligent sustainable sensor technologies on significant social and economic issues; (2) the latest discoveries and developments in smart sensor systems; and (3) a systematical review of state-of-the-art technologies, with critical analyses of and discussions on the current situation and future directions of intelligent sensor technologies in smart homes and smart cities.

The papers can be expanded from excellent conference articles or written with newly developed research outcomes.

Prof. Dr. Joan Lu
Dr. Qiang Xu
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Keywords

decision analytics
predictive models
spatial analytics
risk analytics
graph analytics
big data
analytics
sustainable development
smart society
smart homes
smart city/cities
AI theory and technologies
big data science
signal processing
sensors
computational models for intelligent systems
advanced embedded systems

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Efficient Connectivity in Smart Homes: Enhancing Living Comfort through IoT Infrastructure

by Hamdy M. Youssef, Radwa Ahmed Osman and Alaa A. El-Bary

Sensors 2024, 24(9), 2761; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24092761 - 26 Apr 2024

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Modern homes are experiencing unprecedented levels of convenience because of the proliferation of smart devices. In order to improve communication between smart home devices, this paper presents a novel approach that particularly addresses interference caused by different transmission systems. The core of the suggested framework is an intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) system designed to reduce interference. By using adaptive communication protocols and sophisticated interference management algorithms, the framework minimizes interference caused by overlapping transmissions and guarantees effective data sharing. This can be accomplished by creating an optimization model that takes into account the dynamic nature of the smart home environment and intelligently allocates resources. By maximizing the signal quality at the destination and optimizing the distribution of frequency channels and transmission power levels, the model seeks to minimize interference. A deep learning technique is used to augment the optimization model by adaptively learning and predicting interference patterns from real-time observations and historical data. The experimental results show how effective the suggested hybrid strategy is. While the deep learning model adjusts to shifting interference dynamics, the optimization model efficiently controls resource allocation, leading to better data reception performance at the destination. The system’s robustness is assessed in various kinds of situations to demonstrate its flexibility in responding to changing smart home settings. This work not only offers a thorough framework for interference reduction but also clarifies how deep learning and mathematical optimization can work together to improve the dependability of data reception in smart homes. Full article

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Self-Attention-Based Deep Convolution LSTM Framework for Sensor-Based Badminton Activity Recognition

by Jingyang Deng, Shuyi Zhang and Jinwen Ma

Sensors 2023, 23(20), 8373; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23208373 - 10 Oct 2023

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Sensor-based human activity recognition aims to classify human activities or behaviors according to the data from wearable or embedded sensors, leading to a new direction in the field of Artificial Intelligence. When the activities become high-level and sophisticated, such as in the multiple technical skills of playing badminton, it is usually a challenging task due to the difficulty of feature extraction from the sensor data. As a kind of end-to-end approach, deep neural networks have the capacity of automatic feature learning and extracting. However, most current studies on sensor-based badminton activity recognition adopt CNN-based architectures, which lack the ability of capturing temporal information and global signal comprehension. To overcome these shortcomings, we propose a deep learning framework which combines the convolutional layers, LSTM structure, and self-attention mechanism together. Specifically, this framework can automatically extract the local features of the sensor signals in time domain, take the LSTM structure for processing the badminton activity data, and focus attention on the information that is essential to the badminton activity recognition task. It is demonstrated by the experimental results on an actual badminton single sensor dataset that our proposed framework has obtained a badminton activity recognition (37 classes) accuracy of

97.83 %

, which outperforms the existing methods, and also has the advantages of lower training time and faster convergence. Full article

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