Applications and Challenges of Internet of Underwater Things
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 6339
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer vision; machine learning; structural pattern recognition; network science
Interests: network modeling; performance evaluation; underwater sensor networks; simulation
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Interests: computer vision; 3D reconstruction; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, research on underwater sensor networks has gained a lot of interest both from the scientific and industrial communities. The possibility of communication over long distances by means of underwater motes has opened a broad new avenue for what concerns ocean environmental monitoring, seabed exploration, seismic activity monitoring, and military surveillance, just to mention few application domains. Moreover, advancements in the fields of smart sensing due also to the integration of artificial intelligence techniques with traditional sensor technologies has seen the growth of a vast array of underwater sensors aimed at applications that previously required problem-driven approximations or extensive human intervention.
The idea of ‘Internet of Underwater Things’ makes a further step in the direction of integrating different types of networks (including terrestrial, on-surface, and aerial ones), a wide range of different smart sensors, and designing an application layer that allows for decisions based on harvested data.
Several challenges must be faced for the actual implementation of such a system, including but not limited to the connectivity and reliability problems, the optimization of the network maintenance thanks to energy harvesting or the use of energy-aware protocols, network security, and confidentiality of the data. Moreover, the design of smart devices that may be designated either to support the network activities (such as autonomous vehicles) or for monitoring some physical phenomena in a smart and autonomous way still poses many open problems.
This Special Issue aims at bringing together academia and industrial researchers to explore the opportunities of the Internet of Underwater Things. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest such as the design of reliable, efficient, and secure networks supporting the Internet of Underwater Things, the development of novel smart sensors and algorithms (with particular focus on those using artificial intelligence and/or computer vision), and the design of new application scenarios or reporting experiences on real-world implementations.
Dr. Andrea Torsello
Dr. Andrea Marin
Dr. Filippo Bergamasco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Underwater sensors
- Underwater networks
- Artificial intelligence for marine sensing
- Artificial intelligence for underwater networking
- Applications of Internet of Underwater Things
