2018 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS)

The growing strategic importance of environmental, energy, and structural monitoring boosts the need for flexible, effective and innovative solutions for design methods and implementation technologies with strong adaptation and evolution capabilities. This workshop aims to discuss the most recent advances in complex monitoring systems from a cross-disciplinary perspective, encompassing technology, methods and applications. Contributions are solicited in all aspects of environmental, energy, and structural monitoring, including the following topics within these application areas:

Environmental monitoring

• Water and air monitoring
• Pollution monitoring
• Agricultural and forest monitoring

Smart structures

• Software infrastructure
• Intelligent monitoring system
• Environmental signal and image processing
• Data security and privacy

Sensor and instrumentation

• Wide-area monitoring
• Communications
• Fault tollerance, dependability and resilence
• Quality of service    Critical infrasturcutre monitoring
• Transportation systems monitoring
• Monitoring for sustainable environments
• Ethical issues

Energy and electrical power systems monitoring

• Energy distribution monitoring
• Oil/gas pipeline monitoring
• Structural health monitoring

Safety

• Standardization issues
• Management and operation
• Engineering educations