Guest Editorial Special Issue on Selected Papers From the IEEE SENSORS 2016 Conference

Over the years, the IEEE SENSORS Conference has become one of the premier, truly global event on novelties in any discipline related to sensors and addressing the whole range from principles, design and fabrication to interfacing, data-extraction, applications, and systems. The most recent conference of this series, the IEEE SENSORS 2016 Conference was held October 30 - November 2, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, USA. In a major departure from previous years, IEEE SENSORS 2016 solicited peer-reviewed 3-page conference papers for the first time, which was received with great enthusiasm by our community. A total of 1049 submissions were received, close to the largest in the SENSORS conference history, of which 617 were accepted (58.82%). Track Chairs handled the review process. All accepted papers went through the same peer-review process, each receiving 5 reviews, and those accepted were published in the conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore. However, they were divided into oral (198) and poster (420) presentations at the SENSORS conference depending upon author preference, suitability, session planning and similar considerations. Authors of 31 conference papers identified for the Best Paper Award from the 16 applicable Tracks were invited to submit expanded versions of their conference papers to this "Selected Papers from the IEEE SENSORS 2016 Conference" Special Issue of the IEEE Sensors Journal, of whom 18 submitted. After rigorous peer review according to the editorial procedures of the Journal, the Guest Editors of this Special Issue accepted 12 for publication and included them in the collection on the following pages.