2016 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:

• Sensors and instrumentations 
• Signal and image processing 
• Intelligent monitoring systems 
• Software infrastructure 
• Wide-area monitoring 
• Communications 
• Data security and privacy 
• Fault tolerance, dependability and resilience 
• Quality of service 
• Safety 
• Standardization issues 
• Management and operation 
• Engineering education 
• Environmental monitoring
• Water and air monitoring
• Pollution monitoring
• Agricultural and forest monitoring
• Energy and electrical power systems monitoring 
• Energy distribution monitoring
• Oil/gas pipeline monitoring
• Structural health monitoring 
• Smart structures
• Critical infrastructures monitoring
• Transportation systems monitoring 
• Monitoring for sustainable environments
• Ethical issues