Theoleyre, FabriceWatteyne, ThomasBianchi, GiuseppeTuna, GurkanGungor, Vehbi CagriPang, Ai-Chun2023-08-172023-08-1720150140-36641873-703XWOS:000351643200001http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2015.02.001https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12573/1728Our society is facing an unprecedented massive urbanization. At the time of writing, 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas (with an 82% peak in North America), opposed to only 30% in 1950. Reports [1] predict that 66% of the world’s population will be urban by 2050, i.e. a sheer increase of 2.5 billion urban citizens, owing to the absolute population growth. The obvious (but not nearly trivial!) emerging challenge is how to successfully accomplish a sustainable urbanization at such level and scale.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessWIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKSeditorial58113