In 2015, heads of state and government adopted the “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" that include 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where the environment underlies each of the goals. Moreover, the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its 2018 report “Internet of Things: Guidelines for Sustainability" states that the Internet of Things could be a game-changer for sustainability, contributing to achieving both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the UN’s 2030 mission.
The focus of this workshop is on the sustainability of the proposed solutions, that is, on works that consider at least one of sustainability's three main pillars: the economy, society, and the environment:
Economy: e.g. potential cost savings for users through the use of the proposed solution;
Environment: e.g. developing environmentally sound solutions, ensuring standards are met;
Society: e.g. enhancing safety in production, use or end-of-life, stakeholder perception of solutions.
In this context, different challenges need to be addressed, from designing and developing more sustainable, ecological, and efficient smart sensing objects, to turning to the general public for deploying such systems and crowdsourcing the collection of data using IoT and mobile sensing devices.
With the “Sustainable Environmental Sensing Systems” (SESSy) workshop we aim at presenting and showcasing the latest advances in sustainable environmental sensing systems to monitor different urban and rural conditions to improve the people's quality of life, towards sustainable development.
Topics of interests:
- Small data analytics and network intelligence
- Cooperative and Compound Sensors
- Crowd-sensing, human-centric sensing, Citizen science
- Data collection, organization and dissemination methods
- Efficient resource allocation
- Engineering of frugal objects
- Fog/Edge computing and Caching techniques
- Human Role in the IoT, Social Aspects and Services
- IoT for Open Science
- Lightweight security design
- Low cost or energy harvesting wireless communication and system design
- Rural area sensing and connectivity solutions
- Smart Agriculture and Water Management
- Smart Grid, Energy Management
- Smart sensory augmentation and smart spaces
- TinyML systems and application
- Ultra-low-power IoT Technologies and Embedded Systems Architectures
- Virtualization: Multiple sensors aggregated, or sensors shared by multiple users
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