[AISWorld] Special Issue "Applications of Intelligent Sensors in Smart Cities"

[Naercio Magaia]

Special Issue "Applications of Intelligent Sensors in Smart Cities"

A special issue of Telecom (ISSN 2673-4001).


Dear Colleagues,

Since the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century, cities around the world began their process of industrial development, leading to population growth. Nowadays, large population centers face resource management problems (such as energy and water efficiency, mobility, waste collection, etc.), where citizens demand optimal solutions that seek to minimize the waste of resources and maximize their benefits. The concept of smart cities arises with the purpose of providing citizens with optimal and sustainable services, as well as better quality of life. As an important tool, smart sensors help the government and decision makers in the resource management process and the collection and processing of relevant data related to strategic central regions or neighborhoods. However, deploying smart sensors in the context of smart cities has its challenges. Since sensors can be spread throughout cities, they can collect data from different networks or devices, where security and privacy are not trivial requirements. Based on this, network managers must ensure optimal security connections and security tools to prevent the collected data from being misused, in which intruders can cause damage to the entire network. Further, due to the large number of deployed sensors, acquiring management and filters for data reliable for each scenario can be a challengeable task. Although the use of smart sensors within smart cities aims to make citizens' lives easier, both technologies have open issues that still require further research in different areas. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide the academic and industrial communities with an excellent venue covering all aspects of current work on intelligent sensor applications for smart cities.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Intelligent sensors for public transport systems in smart cities;
Intelligent sensors for traffic control in smart cities;
Energy and water efficiency systems in smart cities;
Secure, privacy and trust mechanisms for intelligent sensors;
Smart waste management systems for smart cities;
Intelligent sensors for connected and smart mobility;
Data analytics and fusion for intelligent sensors.

More information at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/telecom/special_issues/applications_intelligent_smart_cities.


Guest Editor
Dr. Naercio David Pedro Magaia