Editorial: Wireless Networks and IoT Applications

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Wireless networks play a key role in IoT applications, often with wireless sensor networks as ad hoc local area networks with self-healing routing, recent low-power wide-area network technologies enabling new application fields and/or more efficient architectures, and mobile networks offering the possibility of extending applications to remote areas. Wireless networks also enable innovative and interesting applications ranging from smart-homes and smart-cities to precision agriculture and advanced healthcare. The widespread acceptance of these new services can be improved by designing techniques, promoting ubiquity and security, the definition of new protocols, new and more efficient sensors, and developing frameworks and architectures. All these contributions can not only simplify the development of IoT applications, but also system design, deployment, resilience, monitoring, and maintenance, taking into account power requirements and physical assembly, frequently in adverse environments. Although there are wireless networks and IoT technologies that enable high impact and diverse applications, there are many opportunities to innovate and foster future applications. …