Wireless monitoring and control

The rapid development of wireless technology plays extremely important roles in monitoring and control related applications nowadays. This special issue aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions of wireless monitoring, control, actuator coordination as well as their co-designs. It is shown in this proposal that there are a number of potential contributors, as well as reviewers, with original research results to this special issue, and the guest editors are capable of managing the special issue. In recent years, the demand for wireless communications in many monitoring and control applications has grown tremendously, such as military, aerospace, industrial, commercial, environmental, and health monitoring, etc. Some new technologies like Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Mobile Robots, and Bluetooth have already made significant contribution to data acquisition. At the same time, there arise some new challenges to guarantee a highly reliable, accurate and fault-tolerant process. It is a critical issue to develop innovative approaches to deal with multi-variable, multi-space problem domains (detection, identification, tracking, data fusion, energy-efficiency, and fault-tolerant framework) as well as practical implementation in wireless monitoring and control application. The purpose of the special issue is to focus on the novel ways by which monitoring, detection, identification, coordination, and control schemes are applied in wireless monitoring and control applications. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):