Sensors Network and Wearables for People Activities Wellbeing Monitoring

This reprint gathers the scientific contributions published in the Special Issue "Sensors Network and Wearables for People Activities and Wellbeing Monitoring". With a focus on the evolution of wearables and sensor networks for the monitoring of health, daily activities, and general well-being, the contents make clear the shift towards personalized preventive healthcare, benefitting from sensing and digital advancements. The reprint explores applications in different fields, from sensor optimization to environmental monitoring, and citizen science to sleep monitoring. The contributions demonstrate the potentialities of wearable sensors and sensing networks to provide fine-grained data outside controlled laboratory conditions, while also considering essential challenges like data privacy, ethics, and user acceptance. This reprint is a multidisciplinary overview for researchers, engineers, and healthcare professionals, highlighting how measurements and sensors can effectively provide meaningful insights to support adaptive, responsible interventions to improve citizens' quality of life.