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During the past few decades, information technologies have been evolving at a tremendous rate, causing profound changes to our world and to our ways of living. Emerging applications have opened u[ new routes and set new trends for antenna sensors. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the adaptation of antenna technologies for sensor and sensing applications has become more important. Now, the antennas must be reconfigurable, flexible, low profile, and low-cost, for applications from airborne and vehicles, to machine-to-machine, IoT, 5G, etc. This reprint aims to introduce and treat a series of advanced and emerging topics in the field of antenna sensors.

3D printing --- additive manufacturing --- Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), chipless RFID --- mounted on metal --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- phased array --- frequency reconfiguration --- beam steering --- antioxidation --- frequency-reconfiguration --- liquid metal --- temperature sensor --- antenna sensor --- thermal expansion --- electrolyte-free --- industrial WSN --- ISA100.11a model --- ns-3 --- WSN --- UHF antennas --- ultra wideband antennas --- conformal antennas --- radio frequency identification --- elliptical dipole antenna --- EM/circuit co-simulation --- low-cost --- low-power --- power gating --- RF oscillator --- RTLS --- ultrawide band antennas --- biopotential sensing --- Fabry-Perot resonator --- antenna --- superstrate --- metamaterials --- passive sensing --- sensor array --- sparse array --- nonuniform array --- planar array --- random array --- low discrepancy sequence --- triband antenna --- wireless sensors --- planar patch antenna --- mobile applications --- DCS --- WLAN --- WiMAX --- circular polarization --- flexible --- polymer --- transparent --- wearable --- litz wire --- lateral misalignment --- magnetic field distribution --- mutual inductance --- Neumann integral formula --- planar spiral coil --- Internet of Things (IoT) --- wireless sensor network (WSN) --- switched-beam antenna --- electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (ESPAR) antenna --- received signal strength (RSS) --- direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation

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This book contains collections of selected articles presented at the SDEWES2021 conference and subsequently published in a special issue of Sustainability. The book provides state-of-the-art research, overviewing practices in sustainable development, energy, water and environment systems, as well as their uses and applications. Focus is given to waste management; higher biomass production; biorefineries; bio-digital interface and microbial fuel cells; energy and cost reduction in the building sector; and the economic impact of sustainability.

Research & information: general --- biorefineries --- hemicellulose --- lignin --- liquid hot water --- wheat straw --- Chlorella sorokiniana --- heterotrophic --- anaerobic digestate --- glycerol --- FAME --- electrodialysis --- erythritol downstream --- desalination --- waste reduction --- current efficiency --- colloidal particles --- biorefinery --- organosolv --- precipitation --- self-assembly --- solvent shifting --- sustainable built environment --- microbial fuel cell --- bio-digital interface --- adaptive dynamic cell reconfiguration --- on-site net-zero electricity --- energy-positive buildings --- active integrated facades --- thermal storage --- distributed systems --- exergy management --- Africa --- petroleum investment --- entropy weight --- information entropy --- uncertainty measure --- n/a

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Habitual statements in academic and journalistic fields on the growing inequality of our cities call for multiple reflections. There are numerous indicators of inequality, and territorial specificities give rise to important and subtle differences. What is less debatable is the spatial expansion of inequality (from more outlying, poorer countries to the most developed ones) and its generalization on all scales (from rural to urban areas, and from large metropolises to small cities). Mobility and housing lie at the root of many of these processes, which are represented by phenomena that are often interconnected, such as gentrification and the elite social classes; impoverishment and immigrants in search of work; and segregation and refugees; among many others. In this book, we try to offer a Spanish-based vision of what we call urban geographies in transition—that is, urban geographies in which the key stages, for the purpose of analysis, are the real estate bubble (1996–2007), the subsequent crisis (2008–2013), and the ensuing recovery (2014–2020), without overlooking the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the configuration of a new spatial order in cities.

Research & information: general --- Spanish cities --- economic crisis --- financialization --- gentrification --- housing crisis --- post-Fordist capitalism --- property bubble --- property repossession --- touristification --- pandemic --- real estate dispossession --- mortgage foreclosure --- evictions --- short-term rentals --- housing studies --- critical geography --- Canary Islands --- megaprojects --- neoliberalism --- urban development --- urban planning --- Santa Cruz de Tenerife --- Spain --- tourist gentrification --- real estate market --- international migrations --- tourist rejuvenation --- urban inequality --- master plans --- urban projects --- medium-sized cities --- neoliberal urbanism --- tourist housing --- Airbnb --- historic center --- population --- population growth --- spatial reconfiguration --- large urban areas --- post-crisis period --- urban project --- urban agents --- market urbanism --- speculation --- urban transformation --- central area --- Madrid --- residential segregation --- living conditions --- spatial inequalities --- urbanization process --- environmental justice --- urban parks --- ecosystem services --- Tarragona --- n/a

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Habitual statements in academic and journalistic fields on the growing inequality of our cities call for multiple reflections. There are numerous indicators of inequality, and territorial specificities give rise to important and subtle differences. What is less debatable is the spatial expansion of inequality (from more outlying, poorer countries to the most developed ones) and its generalization on all scales (from rural to urban areas, and from large metropolises to small cities). Mobility and housing lie at the root of many of these processes, which are represented by phenomena that are often interconnected, such as gentrification and the elite social classes; impoverishment and immigrants in search of work; and segregation and refugees; among many others. In this book, we try to offer a Spanish-based vision of what we call urban geographies in transition—that is, urban geographies in which the key stages, for the purpose of analysis, are the real estate bubble (1996–2007), the subsequent crisis (2008–2013), and the ensuing recovery (2014–2020), without overlooking the impact of the current COVID-19 crisis on the configuration of a new spatial order in cities.

Spanish cities --- economic crisis --- financialization --- gentrification --- housing crisis --- post-Fordist capitalism --- property bubble --- property repossession --- touristification --- pandemic --- real estate dispossession --- mortgage foreclosure --- evictions --- short-term rentals --- housing studies --- critical geography --- Canary Islands --- megaprojects --- neoliberalism --- urban development --- urban planning --- Santa Cruz de Tenerife --- Spain --- tourist gentrification --- real estate market --- international migrations --- tourist rejuvenation --- urban inequality --- master plans --- urban projects --- medium-sized cities --- neoliberal urbanism --- tourist housing --- Airbnb --- historic center --- population --- population growth --- spatial reconfiguration --- large urban areas --- post-crisis period --- urban project --- urban agents --- market urbanism --- speculation --- urban transformation --- central area --- Madrid --- residential segregation --- living conditions --- spatial inequalities --- urbanization process --- environmental justice --- urban parks --- ecosystem services --- Tarragona --- n/a

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The latest proliferation of Internet of Things deployments and edge computing combined with artificial intelligence has led to new exciting application scenarios, where embedded digital devices are essential enablers. Moreover, new powerful and efficient devices are appearing to cope with workloads formerly reserved for the cloud, such as deep learning. These devices allow processing close to where data are generated, avoiding bottlenecks due to communication limitations. The efficient integration of hardware, software and artificial intelligence capabilities deployed in real sensing contexts empowers the edge intelligence paradigm, which will ultimately contribute to the fostering of the offloading processing functionalities to the edge. In this Special Issue, researchers have contributed nine peer-reviewed papers covering a wide range of topics in the area of edge intelligence. Among them are hardware-accelerated implementations of deep neural networks, IoT platforms for extreme edge computing, neuro-evolvable and neuromorphic machine learning, and embedded recommender systems.

Information technology industries --- high-level synthesis --- HLS --- SDSoC --- support vector machines --- SVM --- code refactoring --- Zynq --- ZedBoard --- extreme edge --- embedded edge computing --- internet of things deployment --- hardware design --- IoT security --- Contiki-NG --- trustability --- embedded systems --- collaborative filtering --- recommender systems --- parallelism --- reconfigurable hardware --- neuroevolution --- block-based neural network --- dynamic and partial reconfiguration --- scalability --- reinforcement learning --- embedded system --- artificial intelligence --- hardware acceleration --- neuromorphic processor --- power consumption --- harsh environment --- fog computing --- edge computing --- cloud computing --- IoT gateway --- LoRa --- WiFi --- low power consumption --- low latency --- flexible --- smart port --- quantisation --- evolutionary algorithm --- neural network --- FPGA --- Movidius VPU --- 2D graphics accelerator --- line-drawing --- Bresenham’s algorithm --- alpha-blending --- anti-aliasing --- field-programmable gate array --- deep learning --- performance estimation --- Gaussian process --- high-level synthesis --- HLS --- SDSoC --- support vector machines --- SVM --- code refactoring --- Zynq --- ZedBoard --- extreme edge --- embedded edge computing --- internet of things deployment --- hardware design --- IoT security --- Contiki-NG --- trustability --- embedded systems --- collaborative filtering --- recommender systems --- parallelism --- reconfigurable hardware --- neuroevolution --- block-based neural network --- dynamic and partial reconfiguration --- scalability --- reinforcement learning --- embedded system --- artificial intelligence --- hardware acceleration --- neuromorphic processor --- power consumption --- harsh environment --- fog computing --- edge computing --- cloud computing --- IoT gateway --- LoRa --- WiFi --- low power consumption --- low latency --- flexible --- smart port --- quantisation --- evolutionary algorithm --- neural network --- FPGA --- Movidius VPU --- 2D graphics accelerator --- line-drawing --- Bresenham’s algorithm --- alpha-blending --- anti-aliasing --- field-programmable gate array --- deep learning --- performance estimation --- Gaussian process