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Integrated Sensing Techniques for IoT Applications

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 1410

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Integrated sensing techniques play an essential role in modern daily life, due to the widespread diffusion of devices and technologies applied to Internet of Things technologies.

The application fields include healthcare, autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, image processing, power engineering, energy, home automation, industry, robotics, automated guided vehicles in manufacturing lines, machine learning, industry automation, etc.

To date, the research carried out in this field has addressed the design and implementation of integrated sensing techniques for IoT applications using already available technologies or low-cost sensors. Sensor fusion and statistical signal processing is a key element for further advances in the field and presents exciting challenges for signal processing practitioners and researchers.

Due to the large variety of technologies and standards involved, integrated sensing techniques for IoT applications need to account for several technologies such as filtering, Kalman, Bayesian filtering, system identification, machine learning, etc.

In this Special Issue, entitled “Integrated Sensing Techniques for IoT Applications”, we encourage the submission original research addressing the fundamental knowledge within this field, supporting technologies, and technical issues. Topics of interest include both cover design and analysis and concerns related to the realization and implementation of integrated sensing techniques for IoT applications.

This Special Issue of Sensors aims to publish novel results on the most recent developments related to integrated sensing techniques for IoT applications, emphasizing the integration of various technologies with the aim of reaching improved performances.

Dr. Guido De Angelis
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • sensor fusion
  • filtering
  • machine learning

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Load Recognition in Home Energy Management Systems Based on Neighborhood Components Analysis and Regularized Extreme Learning Machine
by Thales W. Cabral, Fernando B. Neto, Eduardo R. de Lima, Gustavo Fraidenraich and Luís G. P. Meloni
Sensors 2024, 24(7), 2274; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24072274 - 2 Apr 2024
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Efficient energy management in residential environments is a constant challenge, in which Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) play an essential role in optimizing consumption. Load recognition allows the identification of active appliances, providing robustness to the HEMS. The precise identification of household appliances [...] Read more.
Efficient energy management in residential environments is a constant challenge, in which Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) play an essential role in optimizing consumption. Load recognition allows the identification of active appliances, providing robustness to the HEMS. The precise identification of household appliances is an area not completely explored. Gaps like improving classification performance through techniques dedicated to separability between classes and models that achieve enhanced reliability remain open. This work improves several aspects of load recognition in HEMS applications. In this research, we adopt Neighborhood Component Analysis (NCA) to extract relevant characteristics from the data, seeking the separability between classes. We also employ the Regularized Extreme Learning Machine (RELM) to identify household appliances. This pioneering approach achieves performance improvements, presenting higher accuracy and weighted F1-Score values—97.24% and 97.14%, respectively—surpassing state-of-the-art methods and enhanced reliability according to the Kappa index, i.e., 0.9388, outperforming competing classifiers. Such evidence highlights the promising potential of Machine Learning (ML) techniques, specifically NCA and RELM, to contribute to load recognition and energy management in residential environments. Full article
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