Special Issue on Innovations of Sensor Applications andRelated Technologies in IoT: Part 2-1
PrefaceIn recent years, applications of novel sensors and related technologies
in electronic and mechanical devices have become rapidly developing
fields. The booming economic development in Asia, particularly in leading
manufacturing industries such as automobiles, machinery, computers,communications, flat panel displays, semiconductors, and micro/
nanoscale technologies, has attracted intense attention among universities,
research institutions, and many industrial corporations. Manufacturingis the economic lifeline of a country and has been regarded as a labor
intensive industry. To cut production costs, devices for the Internet ofThings (IoT) have been widely developed. IoT systems can be composedof most integrated end devices and facilities, such as intelligent sensors
for internal control, industrial systems, mobile terminal systems, floorcontrol systems, and home intelligent facilities. Smart devices and external
control information are utilized with the aim of attracting companies
that manufacture high-value-added products in the fields of aerospace,automotive, IT molds, textiles, optoelectronics, watches, medical devices,automation, energy, and semiconductor-related parts and components todrive a country’s economy. Therefore, the key to maintaining a competitive
advantage in domestic manufacturing in the future is still to promote thedevelopment of novel manufacturing and precision-machinery-relatedtechnologies.
The scope of this Special Issue, “Innovations of Sensor Applications and Related
Technologies in IoT,” covers fundamental sensors and materials used in electronic, mechanical,and electrical engineering including their synthesis and integration with many elements;the design of electronic and optical devices; sensing technologies; the evaluation of various
performance characteristics; and the exploration of their broad applications to industry,environmental control, materials analyses, and so forth. The part 2-1 of this special issue selects
10 excellent papers about four categories of sensors and materials fields:(1) Physical Mechanical Sensors: “Development of Fault Detector with Acoustic Emission
Discrimination for Mechanical Motors” presented by Chen and Lo, “Analysis and Design ofSingle-layer Lattice Aluminum Domes Using ANSYS Workbench” presented by Hsu et al.,and “Development of Transient Earth Voltage Sensor for Partial Discharge Detection in Gasinsulated Switchgear” presented by Kuo et al.
(2) Related Materials: “Analysis of Chemical Composition Formula of Sealing Alloys Using
Nearest-neighbor Two-shell Model” presented by Hong et al.
(3) Related Technologies: “Radiation-resistant Silicon-on-insulator MOSFETs Realized byNeutron Irradiation” presented by Huang et al., “State Synchronous Control for Nerve-cell
Systems via Adaptive Faster Finite-time-stabilized Sliding Mode Method” presented by Yang etal., and “An Enhanced Quantum Genetic Algorithm and Its Application in the Health Monitoringof a Rocket Engine” presented by Hao Xiang, and “A Fully Automated Construction of a Deep
U-Net Network Model for Medical Image Segmentation” presented by Gong et al., and “AnImproved Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network Algorithm for Identification ofSteel Coil End-head” presented by Pan et al.
(4) Sensor Applications: “Training a Neural Network to Predict House Rents Using Artificial
Intelligence and Deep Learning” presented by Yang et al.
The guest editors would like to thank the authors for their contributions to this special issue
and all the reviewers for their constructive reviews. We are also grateful to the editorial staff for
their time and efforts on the publication of this special issue for Sensors and Materials.
Dr. Teen-Hang Meen
Distinguished Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering
National Formosa University, Taiwan
Dr. Wenbing Zhao
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cleveland State University, USA
Dr. Cheng-Fu Yang
Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering,
National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan