International conference on “Smart Technologies for Smart Nations” focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Smart Technologies. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding recent developments this arena, and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Conference papers will illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Smart Technologies & its applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Power, Energy and Power Electronics (PEPE)

    Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
    Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Harvesting
    Renewable Energy Sources and Technology
    High Voltage Engineering, HVDC-FACTS
    Switching Circuits and Power Converters
    Power System Monitoring, Control and Protection
    Power Quality
    Grid Impact of Large-Scale Renewable
    Micro Grids and Distributed Generation
    Solar, Wind, Hydro, Fuel Cells and Utility Interface Issues
    Control Communication and Monitoring of Smart Grid
    Energy Storage System
    Motors and Drives
    Forecast and Power Management of Renewable Sources in a Micro Grid

Signal and Image Processing (SIP)

    Signal Processing
    Image Processing
    Video Processing
    Pattern Recognition and Object Tracking
    Audio and Electro-acoustics

Communication Systems (CS)

    Antennas, Propagation and Computational EM
    RF/Millimeter-wave Circuits and Systems
    Wireless Communications and Networks
    Optical Communications
    Modulation and Coding Techniques

Computational Intelligence (CI)

    Neural Networks
    Fuzzy Systems
    Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
    Machine Learning

Computing Technologies (CT)

    Computing Architectures and Systems
    Software and Database System
    Graphics and Animation
    Multimedia Engineering
    Network and Cyber Security

Devices, Materials and Processing (DMP)

    Electronic Devices and Materials Processing
    Nano-electronics
    Power Electronic Devices and Components
    Analog and Mixed Signal ICs

Data Base

    Big Data
    Data Engineering
    Data Mining
    Data Warehousing
    Database Management Systems
    Knowledge Discovery
    Web Mining

Software Engineering

    Agent Oriented Software Engineering
    Agile Software Engineering
    Component-Based Software Engineering
    Computer Aided Software Engineering
    Dependable Systems Design
    Software Architectures
    Software Dependability Evaluation
    Software Design Patterns
    Software Development Tools
    Software Economic
    Software Metrics
    Software Project Management
    Software Quality Assurance
    Software Reliability
    Software Reuse
    Software Reverse Engineering
    Software Testing
    Software Testing Tools
    Software Verification and Validation Techniques
    UML, OO Modeling

Data Communication and Networking

    Agents
    Cloud Computing
    Computer Networks
    Cryptography
    Data Communications
    Grid Computing
    Information and Network Security
    Mobile Computing
    Network Management
    Services Oriented Architecture
    Storage Area Networks
    Wireless Communication

Internet of Things IoT

    Internet of Things Architecture
    Interoperability of IoT systems
    Social Acceptance of IoT Systems
    Physical world event processing
    Mobile IoT
    Smart and urban mobility
    IoT device or circuit design
    IoT applications and services
    Architecture and systems design
    Interface and control systems
    IoT analytics
    Security of Things
    Consent acquisition and ethics in IoT
    Human-Computer Interaction and privacy in IoT
    Location privacy in IoT
    IoT and Human-Data Interaction
    Cognitive IoT
    IoT based e-Commerce
    Smart City Applications
    Crowd Sensing and Management
    Smart Grids and Energy Management
    Intelligent Transport and Applications

Biomedical Engineering (BE)

    Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation
    Wearable Sensors for Healthcare monitoring
    Biomedical Imaging

Emerging Technologies (ET)

    3D Printing/Flexible Electronics
    Internet of Things
    (Big) Data Analytics

Transportation Technologies (TT)

    Aerospace Technologies
    Marine and Offshore Engineering
    Intelligent Transportation Systems

Other Technologies (OT)

    Robotics, Control, Instrumentation and Automation
    Photonic Technologies
    Lasers, Amplifier and Detectors
    Humanitarian Technologies