In the recent era of the Internet of Things, the dominant role of sensors and the Internet provides a solution to a wide variety of real-life problems. Such applications include smart city, smart healthcare systems, smart building, smart transport and smart environment. However, the real-time IoT sensor data include several challenges, such as a deluge of unclean sensor data and a high resource-consumption cost. As such, this paper addresses how to process IoT sensor data, fusion with other data sources, and analyses to produce knowledgeable insight into hidden data patterns for rapid decision-making. This paper addresses the data processing techniques such as data denoising, data outlier detection, missing data imputation and data aggregation. Further, it elaborates on the necessity of data fusion and various data fusion methods such as direct fusion, associated feature extraction, and identity declaration data fusion. This paper also aims to address data analysis integration with emerging technologies, such as cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing, towards various challenges in IoT sensor network and sensor data analysis. In summary, this paper is the first of its kind to present a complete overview of IoT sensor data processing, fusion and analysis techniques.

Low-cost drones are emerging on the horizon of novel smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Researchers in cloud robotics have recently pushed for the integration of low-cost robots and drones in the cloud and IoT. However, the performance of real-time cloud robotics systems remains a fundamental challenge that demands further investigation. In this paper, we present DroneTrack, a real-time object tracking system involving a drone that follows a moving object over the Internet. DroneTrack uses the Dronemap Planner (DP) cloud-based system to control, manage, and communicate with drones over the Internet. The main contributions of this work consist of: (i.) the development and deployment of DroneTrack, a real-time object tracking application using the DP cloud platform, and (ii.) a comprehensive experimental evaluation of its real-time performance. We note that DroneTrack does not use computer vision techniques; rather, it relies on the exchange of GPS locations through the cloud. Three scenarios are presented for conducting various experiments with real and simulated drones. A tracking accuracy of 3.5 meters on average is achieved by DroneTrack with slow-speed moving targets. Our experimental study demonstrates the effectiveness of the DroneTrack system.

Recently, power quality (PQ) issues have drawn considerable attention of the researchers due to the increasing awareness of the customers towards power quality. The PQ issues maintain its pre-eminence because of the significant growth encountered in the smart grid technology, distributed generation, usage of sensitive and power electronic equipments with the integration of renewable energy resources. The IoT and 5G networks technologies have a number of advantages like smart sensor interfacing, remote sensing and monitoring, data transmission at high speed. Due to this, applications of these two are highly adopted in smart grid. The prime focus of the paper is to present an exhaustive survey of detection and classification of power quality disturbances by discussing signal processing techniques and artificial intelligence tools with their respective pros and cons. Further, critical analysis of automatic recognition techniques for the concerned field is posited with the viewpoint of the types of power input signal (synthetic/real/noisy), pre-processing tools, feature selection methods, artificial intelligence techniques and modes of operation (online/offline) as per the reported articles. The present work also elaborates the future scope of the said field for the reader. This paper provides valuable guidelines to the researchers those having interest in the field of PQ analysis and exploring the better methodologies for further improvement. Comprehensive comparisons have been presented with the help of tabular presentations. Although this critical survey cannot be collectively exhaustive, still this survey comprises the most significant works in the concerned paradigm by examining more than 300 research publications.

Feature selection is a technique commonly used in Data Mining and Machine Learning. Traditional feature selection methods, when applied to large datasets, generate a large number of feature subsets. Selecting optimal features within this high dimensional data space is time-consuming and negatively affects the system's performance. This paper proposes a new binary Salp Swarm Algorithm (bSSA) for selecting the best feature set from transformed datasets. The proposed feature selection method first transforms the original data-set using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and fast Independent Component Analysis (fastICA) based hybrid data transformation methods; next, a binary Salp Swarm optimizer is used for finding the best features. The proposed feature selection approach improves accuracy and eliminates the selection of irrelevant features. We validate our technique on fifteen different benchmark data sets. We conduct an extensive study to measure the performance and feature selection accuracy of the proposed technique. The proposed bSSA is compared to Binary Genetic Algorithm (bGA), Binary Binomial Cuckoo Search (bBCS), Binary Grey Wolf Optimizer (bGWO), Binary Competitive Swarm Optimizer (bCSO), and Binary Crow Search Algorithm (bCSA). The proposed method attains a mean accuracy of 95.26% with 7.78% features on PCA-fastICA transformed datasets. The results show that bSSA outperforms the existing methods for the majority of the performance measures.