THE IEEE 11TH WORLD FORUM ON INTERNET OF THINGS
CHENGDU, China, 27–30 OCTOBER, 2025
Wearable IoT systems are revolutionizing healthcare, manufacturing, and smart cities through real-time health analytics, AI-driven safety protocols, and human-centric automation, driven by regulatory and operational needs for standardized, secure frameworks. Academic advances in edge AI, sensor fusion, and privacy-preserving architectures enable applications like real-time diagnostics and digital twin modeling, yet challenges in energy efficiency, context-aware adaptability, and scalable governance hinder cross-sector deployment. To address these, multidisciplinary collaboration must align lightweight AI designs with adaptive edge networks, prioritizing trustworthy system design (quantum-resistant security, user-centric privacy) and scalable intelligence (on-device AI with edge-cloud orchestration). Success demands standardized architectures integrating real-time sensing and AI insights, alongside cross-sector efforts to unify standards, optimize energy-efficient hardware, and validate adaptive algorithms. By prioritizing interoperability and human-in-the-loop resilience, wearable IoT can advance predictive maintenance, workforce safety, and personalized healthcare globally.
The workshop will focus on IoWT systems, addressing both foundational principles and practical implementations across healthcare, manufacturing, and smart cities. Emphasis will be placed on edge intelligence—enabling energy-efficient, on-device AI for real-time analytics—and interoperable frameworks, ensuring secure, context-aware integration of multimodal sensors and edge-to-cloud networks. Cross-disciplinary contributions are encouraged, with topics of interest including (but not limited to):
- Lightweight AI architectures for resource-constrained wearable devices and edge networks
- Context-aware computing paradigms enabling adaptive human-device interactions in dynamic environments
- Interoperable communication protocols for heterogeneous wearable ecosystems spanning medical, industrial, and consumer applications
- Human-centric digital twin models enabling real-time health, safety, and performance monitoring via multimodal sensor fusion
- Energy harvesting and optimization strategies for self-sustaining wearable systems in remote or mobile deployments
- Trustworthy edge-cloud orchestration supporting latency-sensitive applications such as AR/VR interfaces and robotic exoskeletons
Important Dates
•Submission deadline: 15 June, 2025
•Notification: 31 July, 2025
•Camera-ready submission: 15 August, 2025
•Workshop date: 28 October, 2025
Organizing Committee
Workshop Chair
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria (Italy)
Hongliang Ren, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
Wen Qi, Soutch China University of Technology (China)
Technical Program Committee (tentative)
| Paolo | Bonato | Harvard University | USA |
| Wei | Chen | University of Sydney | Australia |
| Ferruccio | Damiani | University of Turin | Italy |
| Hassan | Ghasemzadeh | Arizona State University | USA |
| Raffaele | Gravina | University of Calabria | Italy |
| Spyros | Lalis | University of Thessaly | Greece |
| Chunquan | Li | Nanchang University | China |
| Ye | Li | Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies | China |
| Antonio | Liotta | University of Bozen | Italy |
| Peter X | Liu | Carleton University | Canada |
| Archan | Misra | Singapore Management University | Singapore |
| Emiliano | Schena | University Campus Biomedico Rome | Italy |
| Kewei | Sha | University of North Texas | USA |
| Salvatore | Tedesco | Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork | Ireland |
| Dipanwita | Thakur | University of Calabria | Italy |
| Mirko | Viroli | University of Bologna | Italy |
| Zhelong | Wang | Dalian University of Technology | China |
Planned Program:
Morning (9:00-12:00)
9:00-9:10: workshop opening remarks
9:10-9:50: Keynote Speaker (30 min keynote and 10 min Q&A)
9:50-10:20: Coffee break
10:20-11:00: Oral Presentation
11:00-12:00: Poster Session 1
Lunch Break (Workshop lunch)
Afternoon (14:00-17:00)
14:00-14:40: Keynote speaker
14:40-15:10: Poster Session 2
15:10-15:40: Coffee break
15:40-16:40: Panel discussion
16:40-17:00: Brainstorm and Closing remarks