The 1st International Online Conference on Sensor and Actuator Networks
The 1st International Online Conference on Sensor and Actuator Networks
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
9 March 2026
9 April 2026
6 June 2026
6 July 2026
AI and cybersecurity aspects of modern WSNs, network services and applications, industrial internet of things I-IoT, integrated sensing and communication
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Welcome from the Chair
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Online Conference on Sensor and Actuator Networks, which will be hosted online from 9 to 10 July 2026.
This conference will present the latest studies in sensor and actuator network-related research in the fields of healthcare, smart agriculture, industry, mobile systems, intelligent transportation, manufacturing, smart cities, and engineering. The goal is to highlight the status, challenges, and opportunities as well as future trends in sensor and actuator network engineering. CSAN 2026 will present the state-of-the-art sensor and actuator networks related to the following topics:
S1. Industry 4.0 and embedded wireless sensor/actuator systems
CSAN 2026 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings with the worldwide vibrant community of scientists and engineers in the field.
CSAN 2026 will make your presentation accessible to hundreds of researchers worldwide, with the active engagement of the audience in question-and-answer sessions and discussion groups that will take place online.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee. All accepted abstracts will be available online in Open Access form on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Following the conference, selected contributions will be invited for submission to the JSAN journal (ISSN: 2224-2708, Impact Factor: 4.2), with a 15% discount on the publication fee.
We hope you will join us, present your work at CSAN 2026, and be part of this exciting online event.
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Lei Shu,
College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China;
School of Engineering, College of Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
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Event Chair
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China; University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Session Chairs
Prof. Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
a.abumahfouz@ieee.org
Prof Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He is currently a Chief Researcher and the Centre Manager of the Emerging Digital Technologies for 4IR (EDT4IR) Research Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; an Extraordinary Professor with University of Pretoria; and Visiting Professor at University of Johannesburg; South Africa. His research interests are wireless sensor and actuator network, low power wide area networks, software-defined wireless sensor network, cognitive radio, network security, network management, and sensor/actuator node development. Prof Abu-Mahfouz is a Section Editor-in-Chief with the Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks.
Prof. Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse and Colmar, France
lorenz@ieee.org
Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents and 200 international publications in referred journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine since (2015-2020), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2017, IEEE Internet of Things Journal since 2024, Chair of IEEE ComSoc France (2020-2024), Financial chair of IEEE France (2017-2022), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009), Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010) and Chair of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (2016-2017), Chair of IEEE/ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Finance Committee (2022-2024), IEEE R8 Conference Coordination Committee (2023). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012 and ICC'2004, Executive Vice-Chair of ICC'2017, TPC Vice Chair of Globecom'2018, Panel sessions co-chair for Globecom'16, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012 and WCNC'2014, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2007-2011, Globecom'2019, ICC 2008-2010, ICC'2014 and '2016. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS. He is associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS-Wiley), Journal on Security and Communication Networks (SCN-Wiley) and International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, Journal of Network and Computer Ap
Prof. Jordi Mongay Batalla
Institute of Telecommunications and Cybersecurity, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland
jordi.mongay.batalla@pw.edu.pl
Jordi Mongay Batalla (PhD, DSc) is a Professor at Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Telecommunications and Cybersecurity, with 25+ years of expertise in mobile networks, Internet applications and cybersecurity. He is also with the University of Nicosia (Cyprus) as an Adjunct Faculty Member (remotely). Jordi Mongay is/has been an adviser in different inter/national institutions. He is a 5G expert in NATO STO and has been an expert of the Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej from 2021 to 2023. Prof. Mongay Batalla was contracted by ENISA (EU Cybersecurity Agency) as an external expert of 5G and IoT cybersecurity through CEI from 2019 to 2023. He still advises ENISA for the EU certification scheme. He contributes to standards: O-RAN Alliance Security Working Group, CEN/CLC/JTC 13/WG 9 for the Resilience Act. J. Mongay is the editor of four books and the author of more than 200 papers. He is a (guest) editor and member of the Editorial Board of more than 10 international journals.
Prof. Sye-Loong Keoh
School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
SyeLoong.Keoh@glasgow.ac.uk
Sye-Loong Keoh is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow (UofG, Singapore campus). He is currently the Director of Research Programmes in UofG Singapore. He holds a Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College London. Prior to joining Glasgow, he was a Senior Scientist at Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Philips Lighting is now known as Signify). His areas of expertise include cyber security for Internet of Things (IoT), lightweight security systems for cyber-physical systems, and policy-based security management for pervasive and distributed systems. He leads the cyber-security research activities in UofG Singapore where he has designed several lightweight authentication protocols and key management schemes for IoT, building management and industrial control systems. More recently, he is researching on new techniques for securing end-to-end communication and ensuring data provenance in IoT environment. While working at Philips Research, he was responsible for standardizing Marlin Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology for content protection, and lightweight security protocols for Philips’s IoT-based lighting systems.
Prof. Jianwei Niu
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
niujianwei@buaa.edu.cn
Jianwei Niu is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Beihang University in 2002 and was selected for the Ministry of Education's 2009 "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program." From January 2010 to February 2011, he was a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He is a National Excellent Science and Technology Teacher and Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program and the National Innovation Platform for Industry–Education Integration on Industrial Internet. He has led more than 50 national and enterprise projects, including key programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key R&D projects on industrial robotic operating systems and secure real-time embedded intelligent systems, and has received major honors such as the Ministry of Education Technology Invention Award (First Prize), the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize), and the Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award. He has published over 300 papers (including 30+ CCF A papers), authored 2 books, filed over 80 patents, and his work has been cited more than 18,000 times (Google Scholar, H-index 65).
Event Committee
Institute of Telecommunications and Cybersecurity, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Robert Janowski obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) in 1998 and 2008, respectively. Since 2003 to 2008 he has been associated with WUT, Institute of Telecommunications and Cybersecurity, as a researcher involved in R&D projects. During the years 2008-2016 he worked as a specialist for mobile network operator company. From 2009 to 2025 he worked for Warsaw School of Computer Science. In 2024 he joint WUT, Institute of Telecommunications and Cybersecurity as a researcher and lecturer. His research interests mainly focus on modelling and analysis of IP networks, performance and security evaluation of 5G mobile networks, exploitation of O-RAN architecture, applications of SDR cards.
Department of Life Sciences, Health, and Health Professions, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy
Stefano Dugheri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3078-7188) is Associate Professor of Occupational Medicine at Link Campus University (Rome, Italy). His work, teaching, and research activities are part of the industrial fabric with the aim of identifying and preventing risks related to production activities and ensuring a service for monitoring and assessing occupational exposure. His scientific research and teaching activities, as well as related activities in the field of occupational medicine and preventive medicine in the workplace, are relevant to occupational hygiene, epidemiology, toxicology, and ergonomics. He has many years of experience in assessing occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds and metals of interest to human health and environmental hygiene, with reference to scenarios such as petrochemical plants and chemical industries. Author of over 180 scientific publications and guest speaker at more than 30 international and national conferences, he has taken part in numerous research projects.
Piotr Korbel received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 1999 and 2007 respectively. He is currently with the Telecommunications Division of the Institute of Electronics at Lodz University of Technology. He serves as a university representative in the activities of the Polish Committee for Standardization, TC11. His research and academic interests cover several key areas in the field of radiocommunications, radio wave propagation, digital signal processing, and location-based services. He has contributed to more than ten industrial and R&D projects, including development of a 5G testbed at the university campus within the Digital Innovation Hub programme.
Sessions
S2. Blockchain technologies and Internet-of-Things-based WSAN
S3. WSAN and next-generation networks (5G, 6G, etc.)
S4. Applications of WSAN in agriculture, vehicle, wearable sensors, smart cities, manufacturing, mobile systems, and health and medical care
S5. Big Data, Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Registration
When registering as an "Academic", please register with your academic email address, as this will accelerate the registration process. If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for understanding.
Only registered authors will be able to apply for the Conference Awards.
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Early Bird Until 6 June 2026 |
Regular Until 6 July 2026 |
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| Author, Reviewers, Topical Advisory Panel Members, Review Board Members, Guest Editors | 30.00 CHF | 50.00 CHF |
| Academic | 40.00 CHF | 50.00 CHF |
| Chairs, Keynote/Invited Speakers, Committee Members of the Conference, Editorial Board Members |
| Listener (submission is limited) |
Cancellation policy
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Insurance
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Payment methods
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Currencies accepted by this event
Swiss francs (CHF) , Euros (EUR) , US dollars (USD) , Pounds sterling (GBP) and Singapore dollars (SGD)
Instructions for Authors
The 1st International Online Conference on Sensor and Actuator Networks (CSAN2026) will accept abstracts only.
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 9 March 2026.
2. Abstract Acceptance Notification: 9 April 2026.
You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
1. The structure abstract should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections (Totally 800-900 words).
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. Abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals, or else it will not be accepted to this conference.
The slot for the oral presentation is around 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
To recognize the research contributions of participants, we are very pleased to announce that all participants have the opportunity to upload and display their research in the form of a video on the conference website. (around 5 minutes)
Benefits of submitting videos
i) Showcase your research to an international audience
This provides an excellent opportunity for participants to publicize and be recognized by a broader international audience for their research.
ii) Award and Certificate Opportunities
All participants with video submissions are now eligible for the Best Video Presentation Award, and are also entitled to obtain a certificate in recognition of your contributions.
iii) Selected to show the records during the live sessions （Attendance is needed）
One video record can be more convenient and efficient for all.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Abstract to CSAN 2026 will be directly submitted to the Topic: “The 1st International Online Conference on Sensor and Actuator Networks (CSAN 2026)” within the “ Special Issue” section of the Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, (ISSN: 2224-2708, Impact Factor: 4.2) with a 15% discount on the publication fee.
Editorials type: Do not require peer review, only 3-4 pages long, and free of charge.
Perspectives type: Require peer review, follow the same processing workflow as articles, and receive the same discounts.
Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Benefits of Publishing in a Special Issue
1. Ease of navigation: Grouping papers by topic helps scholars navigate broad scope journals more efficiently.
2. Greater discoverability: Special Issues support the reach and impact of scientific research. Articles in Special Issues are more discoverable and cited more frequently.
3. Expansion of research network: Special Issues facilitate connections among authors, fostering scientific collaborations.
4. External promotion: Articles in Special Issues are often promoted through the journal's social media, increasing their visibility.
5. Reprint: MDPI Books provides the opportunity to republish successful Special Issues in book format, both online and in print.
Event Awards
The Best Video Presentation Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting video presentation for the conference!
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Email: csan2026@mdpi.com
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