Special Issue: "Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications" - Sensors Journal

Guest Editor
Dr. Feng Xia
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia
Tel: +61-7-3138 2277
Email: f.xia@ieee.org; f.xia@acm.org


Summary

Recent years have witnessed tremendous advances in wirelessly networked and embedded sensors. Wireless sensor nodes are typically low-cost, low-power, small devices equipped with limited sensing, data processing and wireless communication capabilities, as well as power supply. With the continuation of Moore’s law, they are becoming smaller, cheaper, while more powerful and more pervasive. The proliferation of these products opens up unprecedented opportunities for a wide variety of scientific, industrial, agricultural, commercial and military applications, such as health care, smart transportation, emergency response, home automation, social studies, critical infrastructure protection, and target tracking, just to mention a few. In particular, wireless sensors are a key enabling technology for the emerging cyber-physical systems, which will ultimately improve the quality of life. To realize the full potential of wireless sensors, enormous challenges need to be addressed and significant efforts have been made in this field.

This special issue aims to gather latest research and development achievements in wireless sensors and to promote their applications in real world. Original and unpublished papers that address the most current issues and challenges are solicited in all aspects of wireless sensors, including, but not limited to, theoretical studies, methods, technologies, prototypes, and practical applications.

Keywords
Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network, Sensor Web, Sensor Network, Sensor Design, Cyber-Physical System, Smart Space, Pervasive Computing.

Submission

Sensors (http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/) is a highly rated journal with a 1.373 impact factor in 2006.
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All papers should be submitted to sensors@mdpi.org with copy to the guest editors. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special websites.

Please visit the instructions for authors at http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/publguid.htm before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 1050 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (1300 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.).

Mr. Matthias Burkhalter and Ms. Laura Simon
Assistant Editor
MDPI Center - Sensors Office
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E-mail: sensors@mdpi.org
Tel +41 61 683 7734, Fax +41 61 302 8918
http://www.mdpi.org/sensors


MDPI - Matthias Burkhalter - 12 March 2008