Antennas for Wireless Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 6102
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antenna design; microwaves in medicine; antenna miniaturization; wireless harvesting; medical applications; optimization techniques; microwave imaging; implantable antennas; wearable antennas; microwave measurements
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Dear Colleagues,
Wireless antenna sensors have received a considerable amount of interest in recent years. The Internet of Things, among others, is heavily based on the development of sensors and mostly on the implementation of wireless sensors. Body-implantable medical devices, car-2-car (C2C) communication, agriculture, city parking information systems, traffic light control, home automation, body area networks, and air and water pollution information systems are some of the various applications being considered for wireless sensor networks.
Antennas can be used to meet the different needs of wireless sensors, including communication, sensing, and power requirements. More specifically, antennas can be utilized to enhance wireless energy transfer, energy harvesting, batteryless operation, beam focusing, and wireless networking, medical telemetry, allowing for multiple propagation paths, increasing bandwidth, and supporting low power operation needs of several wireless sensing applications. To this end, the design parameters of antennas should be optimized to enable operation, often in hostile environments, with optimum efficiency.
Despite the remarkable progress in the design and optimization of antennas, challenges such as size, gain, efficiency, and frequency band requirements of end application are still present. In this Special Issue, we seek contributions on recent advancements in sensor antennas for novel applications and future challenges in antennas for wireless sensors.
Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Antennas for bio-telemetry applications;
- Antenna sensors for quantifying signals;
- Wireless power transfer for implantable antennas and other applications;
- Microwave location estimation;
- Metamaterial-based antennas with emphasis on sensing and communication.
Dr. Stavros Koulouridis
Dr. Sofia Bakogianni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Things
- Wearable sensors
- Implanted sensors
- Wireless power transfer
- Medical telemetry
- Agriculture
- Home automation
- Body area networks
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