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Recent Advances in Sensing and IoT Technologies

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 29155

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Raffaele Bruno

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Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via G. Moruzzi, 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: MAC protocols for wireless networks; architectures and protocols for the Internet of Things; vehicular networks; 5G networks; smart transportation; smart grids and smart buildings
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Prof. Dr. Sherali Zeadally

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College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0224, USA
Interests: cybersecurity; privacy; Internet of Things; computer networks (including vehicular networks)
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network connecting billions of physical objects and devices that are capable of sensing and sharing data between themselves and the Internet. Hence, one of the core goals of an IoT system is to provide a digital overlay of information over the physical world, in domains such as industries, smart cities, transportation, and energy. Thus, sensing and embedded systems are key enabling technologies for the IoT vision.

The increasing popularity of IoT applications is driving an exponential growth in connected IoT devices and generated data. As a result, the current IoT system architectures and communication technologies are facing significant technical challenges to meet the requirements of connectivity, scalability, and interoperability, as well as to efficiently support the transmission and processing of large volumes of data. Hence, there is a need for new enabling technologies, end-to-end architectures, and data management platforms.

This Special Issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality research with emerging ideas, approaches, theories, and practice to resolve the challenging issues related to the development of IoT ecosystems. Comprehensive review papers on the emerging research trends in the IoT domain are highly encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Sensor technologies and protocols for IoT systems
  • IoT technologies and wireless sensor networks for smart cities and smart homes
  • IoT in 5G and beyond 5G networks
  • Edge, fog, and cloud computing architectures for IoT systems
  • SDN and NFV solutions for IoT systems
  • Mission-critical IoT applications like smart grid, healthcare, connected vehicles, and so on
  • Security, privacy, and trust management in IoT
  • IoT solutions for crowdsourcing and crowd-sensing.
Dr. Raffaele Bruno
Dr. Sherali Zeadally
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IMSC-EIoTD: Identity Management and Secure Communication for Edge IoT Devices
by Kazi Masum Sadique, Rahim Rahmani and Paul Johannesson
Sensors 2020, 20(22), 6546; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20226546 - 16 Nov 2020
Cited by 8 | Viewed by 4047
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The Internet of things (IoT) will accommodate several billions of devices to the Internet to enhance human society as well as to improve the quality of living. A huge number of sensors, actuators, gateways, servers, and related end-user applications will be connected to [...] Read more.
The Internet of things (IoT) will accommodate several billions of devices to the Internet to enhance human society as well as to improve the quality of living. A huge number of sensors, actuators, gateways, servers, and related end-user applications will be connected to the Internet. All these entities require identities to communicate with each other. The communicating devices may have mobility and currently, the only main identity solution is IP based identity management which is not suitable for the authentication and authorization of the heterogeneous IoT devices. Sometimes devices and applications need to communicate in real-time to make decisions within very short times. Most of the recently proposed solutions for identity management are cloud-based. Those cloud-based identity management solutions are not feasible for heterogeneous IoT devices. In this paper, we have proposed an edge-fog based decentralized identity management and authentication solution for IoT devices (IoTD) and edge IoT gateways (EIoTG). We have also presented a secure communication protocol for communication between edge IoT devices and edge IoT gateways. The proposed security protocols are verified using Scyther formal verification tool, which is a popular tool for automated verification of security protocols. The proposed model is specified using the PROMELA language. SPIN model checker is used to confirm the specification of the proposed model. The results show different message flows without any error. Full article
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Hybrid Deep Learning Predictor for Smart Agriculture Sensing Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition and Gated Recurrent Unit Group Model
by Xue-Bo Jin, Nian-Xiang Yang, Xiao-Yi Wang, Yu-Ting Bai, Ting-Li Su and Jian-Lei Kong
Sensors 2020, 20(5), 1334; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20051334 - 29 Feb 2020
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Smart agricultural sensing has enabled great advantages in practical applications recently, making it one of the most important and valuable systems. For outdoor plantation farms, the prediction of climate data, such as temperature, wind speed, and humidity, enables the planning and control of [...] Read more.
Smart agricultural sensing has enabled great advantages in practical applications recently, making it one of the most important and valuable systems. For outdoor plantation farms, the prediction of climate data, such as temperature, wind speed, and humidity, enables the planning and control of agricultural production to improve the yield and quality of crops. However, it is not easy to accurately predict climate trends because the sensing data are complex, nonlinear, and contain multiple components. This study proposes a hybrid deep learning predictor, in which an empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method is used to decompose the climate data into fixed component groups with different frequency characteristics, then a gated recurrent unit (GRU) network is trained for each group as the sub-predictor, and finally the results from the GRU are added to obtain the prediction result. Experiments based on climate data from an agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) system verify the development of the proposed model. The prediction results show that the proposed predictor can obtain more accurate predictions of temperature, wind speed, and humidity data to meet the needs of precision agricultural production. Full article
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Recent Advances in Wearable Sensing Technologies
by Alfredo J. Perez and Sherali Zeadally
Sensors 2021, 21(20), 6828; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21206828 - 14 Oct 2021
Cited by 52 | Viewed by 11804
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Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By using these technologies, people have transformed the way they live, interact with each other and their surroundings, their [...] Read more.
Wearable sensing technologies are having a worldwide impact on the creation of novel business opportunities and application services that are benefiting the common citizen. By using these technologies, people have transformed the way they live, interact with each other and their surroundings, their daily routines, and how they monitor their health conditions. We review recent advances in the area of wearable sensing technologies, focusing on aspects such as sensor technologies, communication infrastructures, service infrastructures, security, and privacy. We also review the use of consumer wearables during the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and we discuss open challenges that must be addressed to further improve the efficacy of wearable sensing systems in the future. Full article
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State-of-the-Art Software-Based Remote Attestation: Opportunities and Open Issues for Internet of Things
by Sigurd Frej Joel Jørgensen Ankergård, Edlira Dushku and Nicola Dragoni
Sensors 2021, 21(5), 1598; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21051598 - 25 Feb 2021
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The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem comprises billions of heterogeneous Internet-connected devices which are revolutionizing many domains, such as healthcare, transportation, smart cities, to mention only a few. Along with the unprecedented new opportunities, the IoT revolution is creating an enormous attack surface [...] Read more.
The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem comprises billions of heterogeneous Internet-connected devices which are revolutionizing many domains, such as healthcare, transportation, smart cities, to mention only a few. Along with the unprecedented new opportunities, the IoT revolution is creating an enormous attack surface for potential sophisticated cyber attacks. In this context, Remote Attestation (RA) has gained wide interest as an important security technique to remotely detect adversarial presence and assure the legitimate state of an IoT device. While many RA approaches proposed in the literature make different assumptions regarding the architecture of IoT devices and adversary capabilities, most typical RA schemes rely on minimal Root of Trust by leveraging hardware that guarantees code and memory isolation. However, the presence of a specialized hardware is not always a realistic assumption, for instance, in the context of legacy IoT devices and resource-constrained IoT devices. In this paper, we survey and analyze existing software-based RA schemes (i.e., RA schemes not relying on specialized hardware components) through the lens of IoT. In particular, we provide a comprehensive overview of their design characteristics and security capabilities, analyzing their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we discuss the opportunities that these RA schemes bring in attesting legacy and resource-constrained IoT devices, along with open research issues. Full article
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