Smart Environments: Current Trends and Future Directions
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 May 2023) | Viewed by 3914
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Interests: distributed systems; inter-vehicle communication; mobile computing; multimedia communication; parallel algorithms
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Dear Colleagues,
A smart environment is an initiative that aims to realize efficient, human, and environmentally friendly, and sustainable social systems in various fields such as transportation systems, communication infrastructure, SDGs, and fintech, by utilizing advanced technologies such as IT and environmental technologies to achieve comfortable and intelligent urban living. The proliferation of smart devices has created new application areas such as the Internet of Things, industrial control and monitoring systems, and blockchain technology, which can be used to realize a sustainable society. Smart environments include interoperable objects, organizations, and arrange the exchange of information and value to support individual urban living for people at all stages of life.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish original, important, and visionary papers describing scientific methods and technologies that improve the efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability of smart environments. In this Special Issue, we want to focus on understanding what needs to be done to make efficient, human, and environmentally friendly, and sustainable intelligent social systems a reality. We strongly encourage the contribution of scientific results from experts from universities and companies around the world.
Dr. Naoki Shibata
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart cities
- smart environments
- smart economy
- smart government
- smart mobility
- intelligent transportation systems and autonomous vehicles
- blockchain-based technologies and cryptocurrencies
- peer-to-peer networks
- cloud and edge computing
- mobile networks and wireless sensor networks
- protocols and architectures
- distributed and parallel processing
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