The Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering announce the publication of a special issue on Trends in the Ultra-wideband (UWB) Technology which promote new trends in all areas of UWB system. Ultra wideband (UWB) has advanced and merged as a technology. The current UWB field is changing rapidly with new techniques and ideas where several issues are involved in developing the systems. Recently, a considerable amount of researches has been devoted to the development of the UWB system for its enabling high data transmission rates and low power consumption. Our special issue attempts to present current and emerging trends in-research and development of UWB systems as well as future expectations.

The Journal covers the entire field of thermal imaging and infrared thermography application. It shares an active interest in the latest developments of theoretical and experimental practices, instrumentation, and image processing related to infrared thermography. The core topics can be summarized as the application of infrared thermography to radiometry, thermometry and thermal parameter identification, in all fields, including non-destructive evaluations, preventive and predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, structures and material sciences, medicine, biomedical science, environment, remote sensing and industrial processes.

The Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering announce the publication of a special issue on advances in applications of artificial intelligence which promote new trends in all areas of electrical and electronic engineering. The goal of this special issue is to present unique results of academic work in the field of artificial intelligence with special emphasis to applications. Review papers are also welcomed. Papers without demonstrated applicability of artificial intelligence problems are out of the scope of this special issue.

Data acquisition is a necessity, which is why data acquisition systems and software applications are essential tools in a variety of fields. For instance, research scientists rely on data acquisition tools for testing and measuring their laboratory-based projects. Therefore, as a data acquisition system designer, you must have an in-depth understanding of each part of the systems and programs you create. The purpose of this issue of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) Journal is to promote the grown of educational, scientific and industrial research activities among Data Acquisition system to provide a mutual communication between the world academia/scientific and the industry. Today’s complicated physics experiments (but also in industrial field) require highly complex data acquisition systems and software that are capable of managing large amounts of information. Many of the systems require high-speed connections and digital recording and they must be reconfigurable. Signals that are hard to characterize and analyze with a real-time display are evaluated in terms of high frequencies, large dynamic range, and gradual changes. Data acquisition software is typically available in a text-based user interface (TUI) that comprises an ASCII configuration file and a graphic user interface (GUI), which are generally available with any web browser.

Well-designed data acquisition and control software should be able to quickly recover from instrumentation failures and power outages without losing any data. Data acquisition software must provide a high-level language for algorithm design. Moreover, it requires data-archiving capability for verifying data integrity.

A data acquisition system’s complexity tends to increase with the number of physical properties it must measure. Resolution and accuracy requirements also affect a system’s complexity. To eliminate cabling and provide for more modularity, you can combine data acquisition capabilities and signal conditioning in one device.

During the last year, some new technological developments have proven beneficial to the overall efficacy of data acquisition applications. For instance, advances in USB technology have made data acquisition and storage simpler and more efficient than ever (think “plug and play”). Advances in wireless technology have also made data transmission faster and more secure. This means improved data acquisition system and software technologies will also figure prominently in smartphone design and usage.

The objective is to provide a report on possible data acquisition systems focusing on conversion techniques and data sharing for applications in digital, automotive and scientific fields.
Moreover, would like to give the theory and practical information about the design of data acquisition systems; it helps to solve problems about the functional design hardware (and software) with new outlines.

It will cover the specific technologies used in the different stages in which a general DAQ system can be divided.

Generally speaking, the use of different types of sensors in many industrial fields which information has to be gathered and processed to extract the biggest semantic contents about the process being analyzed. This fact implies the need for a hardware coordination with different sub-data acquisition system for the different types of sensors, but also an information processing strategy to gain more significance from the analysis of the data. Data acquisition (DAQ) and control system which are widely used in industrial and laboratory applications such as: monitoring, motion control and automated testing.

In the experiment in particle physics, Nuclear particles pass through detectors which generate electrical signals. These signals contain information about the particles – type, energy, trajectory. The data acquisition system digitizes, formats and stores this information in a way which can be retrieved for later analysis.

The purpose of the special issue of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) is to foster the grown of educational, scientific and industrial research activities among Electrical, Electronic and Communication engineers and to provide a medium for mutual communication between the world academia and the industry on the one hand, and the world scientific community on the other. EEE invites original contributions in the field of Electrical, Electronic and Communication engineering, but not limited to it.

Interest in microgrids is increasing specially in United States. The present day architecture of electrical grid which is based on top down system and unidirectional energy flows is facing crisis due to its inability to maintain security and reliability. Microgrids are being driven in part by the broader push to create smart grid that will add intelligence and automation to the electricity infrastructure. As penetration of distributed generation is increasing world wide the possibility of having a reliable microgrid has become a reality.