Focused Sessions

Sensor fusion is an effective approach that combines data from various sensors, cameras, and spectrometers to derive meaningful information with exceptional reliability and stability. This concept has been discussed since the inception of sensors. Today, significant advancements in clock stabilization technologies, including miniaturized atomic clocks, and synchronization algorithms like the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) have opened up new opportunities for effective data fusion. Additionally, the incorporation of data assimilation and digital virtualization, driven by machine learning, has greatly enhanced these possibilities. This session will focus on the transformative potential of these advancements in sensor fusion.

In this session, we focus on sensors for animals to monitor health status or to diagnose diseases. Recently, interest on animal rights is growing and the number of pets is increasing world widely. Moreover, gas emission from livestock became a hot issue to keep social sustainability. Sensing animals’ behavior or health status is very important issue to not only animal itself but also human beings. Presenting sensors for natural animals, zoo animals, livestock, fishes or pets, sharing ideas and giving new inspirations to sensor community is the purpose of this session. All about sensors such as bio/chemical sensors and mechanical sensors for animal are welcome. Besides sensor itself, big data treatment, interfaces, circuits regarding animal sensors are also topics in this session.

Microplastic Pollution is increasingly recognized as an important health and environmental problem. Unfortunately, techniques traditionally used for microplastic analysis are slow, high-cost and non-portable. To address the need for rapid, low-cost and portable microplastic analyzers, different sensor approaches based on electronic, thermal and rheological properties of microplastics are being investigated. This focus section aims to bring together researchers, policy-makers and industrial partners to provide a timely update on emerging techniques for microplastic detection. 

Quantum sensors have long been recognized for their very high sensitivity. While they have unprecedented sensitivity, their operations require many adjustments and are often fragile. The main objective of this session is to bring together researchers who are developing highly integrated quantum sensors with micro and nano-electromechanical systems to realize robust scalable quantum sensors.

As wireless technology advances, electromagnetic (EM) and radio frequency (RF) sensing and communication are revolutionizing health parameters monitoring, industrial processes optimization and data connectivity all over the world. This session explores how cutting-edge EM/RF sensing and communication technologies are shaping the future of medical diagnostics and rehabilitation, wearable health devices, smart manufacturing approaches with real-time process optimisation, as well as advanced robotics and industrial automation.