Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Physical security has been critical to national security and public safety. It ensures the defence and protection of a nation (including its citizens, businesses, and institutions) against threats to their well-being via access control and surveillance. Smart sensing technologies, underpinned by resource-rich sensors and artificial intelligence (AI), connect physical security to the digital world.

The data generated from various sensing devices (such as Infrared Sensors, Motion Sensors, Sound sensors, Radar sensors, Satellite, Optical sensors, Ultrasonic sensors, Chemical sensors, Magnetic sensors, etc.) and other sources (such as video footage, audio records, access control logs, social media, police records, etc.) can be correlated and analysed by AI systems to drive the growing sophistication of physical security and build a safer nation. Besides, packing sensors with AI could be used to minimise the threat of malicious activities to digital assessts.

This Special Issue is addressed to applications of smart sensor technologies for all types of physical security.

Application of sensing technologies in national border security
Application of sensing technologies in public safety, including road traffic monitoring, crowd tracking, crime prevention, etc.
Application of sensing technologies in industrial security, including access control, intrustion detection, safe manufacturing, etc.
Autonomous sensor-assisted physical security systems, such as autonomous security robots, natural disaster management using multi-sensor UAV, etc.
AI-driven sensed data correlation and analysis for phyaical security
Surveillance data analytics using machine learning
Verifiable sensor-based physical security
Dr. Zhiyuan Tan
Dr. Ali Ismail Awad
Dr. Nour Moustafa
Guest Editors

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