SenSys 2026: (Second) Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce SenSys 2026: The International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems, co-located with CPS-IoT Week.

For 2026, SenSys, IPSN, and IoTDI merge into a single flagship conference, uniting their communities to create the premier forum for research on sensing systems and embedded AI. The combined event brings together expertise across sensor networks, embedded systems, mobile and wireless computing, machine learning, cyber-physical systems, and AI-driven applications—fostering new directions and cross-disciplinary impact.

Accepted technical papers will appear in the ACM proceedings; demos and posters will appear in the IEEE proceedings. All content will be cross-indexed.

Topics of Interest

SenSys 2026 welcomes original, high-impact research across embedded AI, sensing systems, and IoT/CPS. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Algorithms
  • Analytical and theoretical foundations for embedded sensing systems
  • Coding, compression, and information theory for embedded systems
• Applications
  • Augmented and virtual reality
  • Autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and drones
  • Personal, wearable, and other human-centric embedded systems
  • Smart cities, smart buildings, and industrial IoT
• Experiences (short or full papers)
  • Benchmarks for evaluating systems, models, algorithms, or tools
  • Datasets that support research in embedded AI and sensing systems
  • Frameworks that advance research in embedded AI and sensing systems
  • Insights, challenges, and lessons learned from real-world deployments
  • Visions, grand challenges, or new directions
• Information
  • Collaborative sensing with AI/ML-driven models
  • Federated learning or neural architecture search (NAS)
  • Large language models for edge and embedded systems
  • Processing in sensor networks and embedded systems
• Platforms
  • Low-power and novel IoT protocols for 5G/6G and other architectures
  • New communication paradigms for ubiquitous connectivity
  • Satellite systems and applications, including CubeSats
  • Systems for extreme environments (e.g., underwater, aerial, space)
• Security
  • Decentralization and blockchain for embedded sensing systems
  • Fairness, equity, and transparency issues in IoT and CPS
  • Fault-tolerance, dependability, and robustness in embedded platforms
  • IoT data marketplaces, compression, and semantic summarization
  • Secure and privacy-sensitive IoT
• Systems
  • Digital twins for real-world systems and applications
  • Edge computing, fog computing, and real-time IoT/CPS systems
  • Heterogeneous sensor networks and data fusion
  • IoT and CPS for sustainability
  • Localization, synchronization, RFID, and RF sensing
  • Novel sensor technologies and deployments
  • Visible light communication and visible light-based sensing

Experiences – Short Paper Option
Authors submitting to the Experiences category may choose between a full paper (12 pages) or a short paper (6 pages). Short papers will be evaluated on originality, clarity, and potential impact, even without extensive evaluation. Both full and short papers will have oral presentations.

Two-Deadline Submission Model

SenSys 2026 is implementing a two-deadline review process. Each deadline is self-contained. However, in this second deadline, in addition to new submissions, we are accepting resubmissions of papers rejected in the first deadline that comply with the following criteria.

Papers rejected in the first deadline may be submitted to the second only with a substantive revision and a detailed "Response to Reviewers" statement that maps each concern to specific changes (e.g., methods, analysis, experiments, writing). Submissions that are substantially unchanged or lack this statement will be desk-rejected.

Moreover, authors of resubmitted papers should consider the following guidelines:

• Papers that received borderline or mixed reviews during the first deadline are candidates for potential acceptance in the second deadline after a revision that thoroughly and exhaustively addresses the reviewers’ comments from the first deadline, which likely include the need for new experimental results. Please note that acceptance is not guaranteed; all papers in the second deadline are fully re-reviewed. Therefore, authors should not interpret the reviews of the first deadline in a way similar to major or minor revisions in a journal; the resubmissions are treated as new submissions.
• Papers that received consistently low scores in the first deadline typically require more extensive rethinking and rewriting and a significantly improved evaluation. These submissions are unlikely to become competitive by the second deadline. Authors should seriously consider whether the reviewers’ comments can be addressed within the limited time between deadlines.
• The "Response to Reviewers" should have the same two-column format as the paper, and it should appear at the end of the paper as an appendix. This section should start with (1) the title and paper number of the original submission in the first deadline, and (2) a set of short bullet points highlighting the main improvements, such as new experiments and/or new hardware/software designs. A more detailed response to the reviewers' concerns should be provided after that, by clearly indicating the concern addressed and the reviewer(s) who raised it. The "Response to Reviewers" should have a maximum of four pages.

Submission Guidelines

• Original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere
• Full papers : ≤12 pages; Short papers (Experiences only): ≤6 pages. References are excluded from the page limit for both full and short papers.
• No appendices are allowed (except for resubmission from the first deadline, which are allowed to have an appendix), submissions exceeding page limits or including unapproved appendices will be desk-rejected
• Two-column, single-spaced, 9-pt font (ACM acmart.cls, sigconf option preferred)
• Double-blind review: follow the Anonymity Policy (below)
• Ethical statement required for research with human participants (use generic, non-identifying wording during review)
• Registration & attendance: For each accepted paper, one full (non-student) author registration is required, and at least one author must attend and present in person (see Author Attendance & Registration Policy)
• Submission site: https://sensys26nov.hotcrp.com

Anonymity Policy (Double-Blind Review)

Submissions must be fully anonymized; violations will be desk-rejected.

• No author names/affiliations/emails or identifying PDF metadata
• No acknowledgments during review (funding sources, centers, collaborators)
• Self-citations in third person; avoid text revealing authorship
• Preprints (e.g., arXiv) allowed; reviewers are instructed not to search for them
• Artifact links must be anonymous (blinded GitHub/GitLab, Zenodo with anonymized authors; no personal/lab/department/company sites; scrub repo/file/video metadata/watermarks)
• Human-subjects approvals described generically (e.g., "approved by an institutional review board," without naming the institution)
• No appendices: all material must fit within the page limits

Author Attendance & Registration Policy

• In-person presentation required: At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the conference in person and present the work.
• One full registration per paper: Each accepted paper requires at least one full (non-student) registration by the camera-ready deadline.
• Exceptions: Remote presentation may be approved only in exceptional cases (e.g., visa denial, documented medical issues) at the discretion of the General/Program Chairs.
• No-show policy: Papers without a presenting author may be withdrawn from the program and the proceedings.

Camera-Ready Manuscript Details

Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. ACM uses 9-point fonts in all conference proceedings, and the templates (LaTeX and Word) implicitly define this.

• Registration requirement: Camera-ready upload implies that one full (non-student) registration per accepted paper will be completed, and an author will present in person.

Camera-Ready Manuscript Details for 1st call

Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Please prepare your final version using the official ACM templates (LaTeX or Word), which automatically set the required 9-point font used in all ACM proceedings. Please refer to the publication chair's earlier Note as well as the User Guide of the LaTeX template. Authors should adhere as closely as possible to the 12 pages + references limit from the original submission.

Each accepted paper must be covered by one full (non-student) registration, and at least one author must attend and present in person. Camera-ready submission implies this registration requirement.

We will make every effort to ensure that all accepted papers are available in the ACM Digital Library by the first day of the conference.

Important: please read the update on ACMs new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences!

Important Dates

2nd call deadline