Aim The overall aim of the Journal of Communication, Navigation, Sensing and Services (CONASENSE) is to provide a common platform for exchanging ideas among the communities, both the academic and industrial, involved in the fields of Communications, Navigation and Sensing, with emphasis on multidisciplinary views and Smart/Intelligent services that require the effective and efficient integration of these three fields of research and development. Scope The Journal will publish articles on novel research and the latest advances, in the field of communication (in particular, wireless...

This special issue of the CONASESE journal collects contributions on ICT architectures and key ICT issues to implement control and automation through a large number of smart objects pervasively deployed in the physical world and wirelessly connected and equipped with some control logic running at the core of the application.
Therefore, the power grid becomes "smart" when it is able to react and adapt to any event occurring in any point of the grid (generation, transmission, distribution, consumption) by adopting proper strategies and countermeasures. To make this a reality, a bi-directional...