IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - November/December 2021 - 5

A Decision Support Benchmark for Forecasting
the Consumption ofAgriculture Stocks: This article
presents an empirical study to find out the most
influential factors for forecasting major crops'
consumption with the least chance of error.
COLUMNS
Bits Versus Electrons-Empowering People ...
and Their Things: This article discusses ambient
connectivity, the ability to assume connectivity
everywhere, whose key is to recognize that the
value of connectivity is on the whole.
The Art of Storage-Future Images With Future
Memory: This article presents emerging memory
technologies such as MRAM and RRAM that
enable future generations of image and display
devices.
Energy andSecurity-Personal Internet ofThings
(PIoT): What Is It Exactly?: This article provides a
big picture of PIoT architecture, vision, and future
research scope.
SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
Everything You Wanted to Know About Continuous
Glucose Monitoring: This article provides a
brief review of various approaches to continuous
glucose measurement in a noninvasive manner
and covers the state-of-the-art glucose measurement
methods and their control mechanism.
SPECIAL SECTION
This special section is dedicated to smart cities.
Current cities will be gradually but surely
transformed into smart cities with the advancement
in AI, big-data analytics, 5G, IoT, and other
new consumer technologies. Smart cities will
bring changes to transport, health, living, and
the environment, significantly improving the
quality of life of millions of citizens. Smart cities
will also help to contribute to sustainability and
staying green like carbon neutral. They are
expected to last for centuries while consuming
resources more efficiently.
MCE has covered smart cities topics in the
past. This special section is an attempt to make
the Consumer Technology community aware of
the recent advancements in smart cities. Five
articles were selected to discuss advances in
research related to smart cities. I would like to
thank the Guest Editors, Chai Keong Toh, Dejan
Milojicic, William Webb, and XS Hua, for all the
hard work for this special section which will be
good reading for CTSoc members.
LOOKING FORWARD
I hope the current issue dedicated to UAV
and also Smart City becomes a good reading for
a wider set of researchers and engineers related
to consumer technologies to advance their
knowledge. MCE will continue the trend of covering
more themes for the enthusiastic and dedicated
readers in future issues on the current
topics and emerging topics with the active support
of the editorial board members, reviewers,
and authors, around the world.
ShingoYamaguchi is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Consumer Electronics Magazine,a Professoratthe
Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation,
and the Director of Information & Data Science
Education Center, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi,
Japan. Contact himat shingo@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp.
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