Call for Papers and Demos

Complementing the topics of CPS-IoT Week 2026, this workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to explore advances in sustainable, energy-harvesting, and energy-neutral sensing systems for the IoT and cyber-physical infrastructures. These technologies enable applications in smart energy, intelligent transportation, environmental monitoring, and digital sustainability. Recent progress in energy harvesting, intermittent computing, and sustainable hardware–software co-design is driving the transition from battery-powered nodes to self-powered and environmentally responsible devices. ENSsys 2026 welcomes contributions that bridge disciplines — from low-power and energy-aware software design to battery-free architectures, efficient energy conversion, and edge intelligence through TinyML and embedded AI. Topics include materials and circuit design, power and resource management, distributed intelligence, and sustainable architecture, as well as demonstrators and real-world deployments showcasing advances in zero-energy and long-lived sensing systems.

High-quality technical articles are solicited, describing advances in energy-neutral and battery-free sensing systems enabled by innovative energy harvesting, energy-aware scheduling, and sustainable design methodologies. Contributions reporting practical deployments, prototypes, and real-world implementation experiences are particularly encouraged, as are forward-looking position papers. The call also welcomes work on ultra-low-power and intelligent communication paradigms, including passive and backscatter communication, wake-up radios, and Ambient IoT integration, alongside interdisciplinary approaches that combine embedded AI, communication efficiency, system resilience, and environmental sustainability to enable pervasive, self-powered sensing.

Topics of interest include (not limited to)

• Power management concepts, algorithms, circuits, and energy conversion techniques for energy-harvesting and energy-neutral sensing systems
• Hardware and software concepts for intermittent computing, including resource management and operating system support
• Hardware–software co-design, cross-layer optimization, and resilient architectures for sustainable embedded platforms
• Middleware and services supporting interoperability between zero-energy networks
• On-device and federated TinyML for low-power and adaptive intelligence at the edge
• AI-enabled and Industrial IoT (AIoT and IIoT) applications leveraging energy-harvesting and battery-free technologies
• Passive communication and backscatter networking for battery-free systems
• Wake-up radios and energy-adaptive communication mechanisms
• Energy-aware networking and network-wide distributed management
• Ambient IoT and integration within next-generation communication networks
• Modelling, simulation, and design tools for the effective development of future energy-harvesting and intermittent systems
• Internet of (battery-less) Things
• Circular design, sustainability metrics, and life-cycle assessment of sensor systems
• Demonstrators, prototypes, and real-world deployments showcasing sustainable intelligent sensing

Organising Committee

• General Chair: Matteo Nardello0, University of Trento, IT
• Program Co-Chair: Kasim Sinan Yildirim, University of Trento, IT
• Program Co-Chair: Davide Brunelli, University of Bologna, IT

Steering Committee

• Geoff Merrett, University of Southampton, UK
• Bernd-Christian Renner, TUHH, Germany
• Jacob Sorber, Clemson University, USA
• Brandon Lucia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Przemyslaw Pawelczak, TU Delft, The Netherlands
• Josiah Hester, Northwestern University, USA
• Alex Weddell, University of Southampton, UK

Technical Programme Committee

• Aldo Romani, University of Bologna, Italy
• Ambuj Varshney, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Charis Kouzinopoulos, Maastricht University, Netherlands
• Domenico Balsamo, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
• Eren Yildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
• Hashan Roshantha Mendis, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Henry Duwe, Iowa State University, United States
• Jeremy Gummesson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
• Laura Harms, Kiel University, Germany
• Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Magnus Jahre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
• Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Mario Costanza, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
• Matthew Hicks, Virginia Tech, United States
• Michele Magno, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
• Nikolaos Tsiogkas, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Sebastian Bader, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
• Tommaso Polonelli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Ulf Kulau, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany
• Xiaofan Yu, University of California, Merced, United States

Submission Instructions

We solicit three types of paper submission:

• Technical Papers: up to 6 pages (including everything except references), reporting on novel research, to be presented at the workshop as an oral presentation;
• Position Papers up to 3 pages (including everything), reporting on new research directions and/or a controversial debate of past research, to be presented at the workshop as a short pitch with interactive discussion;
• Demo/Poster Papers up to 2 pages (including everything), to be presented at the workshop as an interactive demonstration or poster respectively.

Submissions should be previously unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers should be submitted for consideration via the workshop website, prior to the submission deadline, and must adhere to the provided formatting guidelines. Papers will undergo double-blind review, authors are asked to remove their names and other identifying statements from submissions. Submissions will be reviewed for novelty, relevance and quality. Accepted papers will be available on the IEEE xPlore Digital Library on the first day of the conference.

You should use the IEEETran.cls template. Please note that IEEE uses 10-pt fonts in all conference proceedings, and the style (both LaTeX and Word) implicitly define the font size to be 10-pt. You may find it useful to refer to this guide on how to use the templates, as well as the User Guide of the new class. Authors are asked to remove their names and other identifying statements from submissions by:

1. using the 'anonymous' option for the class, and
2. using 'anonsuppress' section where appropriate.

Important Date

• Submission: February 21, 2026 (23:59 AoE)
• Notification: March 19, 2026
• Camera Ready: March 31, 2026
• Workshop: May 11, 2026