UAV Based Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Cities
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicular Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2024) | Viewed by 2061
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Interests: health monitoring; wireless sensor networks; unmanned aerial systems (UASs); distributed systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Both smart cities and smart regions require the collection of large volumes of information that cannot always be carried out through terrestrial networks. For this reason, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles is sometimes used, which greatly facilitates observation, reconnaissance, information gathering and, in general, the acquisition of a broad and precise knowledge of the environment.
The use of these aerial means poses some interesting challenges, such as collaboration between them, ensuring flight safety (collision avoidance systems, CASs) and optimizing flights in terms of energy efficiency and guaranteeing quality of service (QoS). However, there are also other challenges, such as the regulation of airspace and of collaboration and interoperability between UAVs, those arising from cybersecurity, the guarantee of privacy, etc., which must also be properly addressed.
This Special Issue aims to address these challenges and provide adequate results for these issues in the field of smart cities.
This Special Issue solicits high-quality contributions that address these challenges and provide adequate results for these issues in the field of smart cities. In particular, we encourage original and high-quality submissions related to one or more of the following topics (not limited to):
- Artificial Intelligence in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: communications, command & control, autononomous fly, collision avoidance systems, collaboration...
- Internet of Flying Things: enabling technologies, applications, challenges, and trends.
- Internet of Things-based vehicular networks: cloud, edge and fog approaches.
- Image Processing in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: critical infrastructure monitoring, emergency response, disaster forecasting, crowd control, evacuation management, ecological monitoring...
- Privacy and cybersecurity: proper management of the information lifecycle, development of regulations to ensure security and privacy.
Prof. Dr. José Javier Astrain
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- AI in UAVs/UASs
- IoFT
- IoT-based UAVs
- image processing
- UAV-based Infrastructure monitorization
- privacy and cybersecurity
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