Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
Theoretical developments of:
- Innovative architectures for smart sensors, nano sensors and actuators
- Unstructured networking
- Cooperative and clustering distributed sensors
- Data fusion for distributed sensors
- Distributed intelligence in distributed sensors
- Energy harvesting for and lifetime of smart sensors and actuators
- Cross-layer design and layer optimisation in distributed sensors
- Security, trust and dependability of distributed sensors
Innovative services and applications for:
- Monitoring: health, traffic, weather and toxins
- Surveillance: target tracking and localization
- Observation: global resources and geological activities (Earth, forest, mines, underwater)
- Industrial applications of distributed sensors in green and agile manufacturing
- Sensor and RFID applications of the Internet-of-Things ("IoT")
- Smart metering
- Machine-to-machine communications