Special Session: Sensor Network Metrology

Sensor networks are becoming a standard approach in many applications, ranging from regulated areas such as energy, water, gas and heat consumption (Legal Metrology) to low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) for Industry 4.0 (Industrial Metrology), even multi-sensor secondary realizations (fundamental metrology) and other areas such as healthcare, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
 

The research work in this topic area focuses on linking the existing research from individual disciplines such as information theory, communication theory
and data science, in order to address metrological questions for such sensor networks.
The underlying methods for most metrological services must be fundamentally revised, in order to accommodate these new measuring sensor networks,
allowing new features of anomaly detection, condition monitoring, state prediction, automatic determination the quality of measurement data, etc.

• Use of sensor networks in regulated areas, such as smart grids and water, gas and heat networks
• Use of low cost sensor networks for applications that require trustworthy and reliable measurements, such as air quality monitoring
• New/updated calibration procedures for multi-sensor measuring systems
• Digital representation of sensor networks as digital twin or for virtual measurements, such as ML/AI-based models for estimation of water/gas consumption
• Data quality and measurement uncertainty in sensor networks
• Wireless and dynamic sensor networks
• Semantics and ontologies for sensor network metrology