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	Raccolta dati da sensori remoti	Raccolta di dati longitudinali da sensori
Campo	Metodologia delle indagini	Metodologia delle indagini
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1990s–2000s (proliferated with wireless and IoT technologies)	1990s–2000s (accelerated with IoT and wearable devices from ~2010)
Ideatore	Multiple contributors; foundational wireless sensor network (WSN) survey by Akyildiz et al.	Emerging from ambulatory assessment and wearable technology research communities
Tipo	Automated quantitative data collection	Longitudinal quantitative/mixed data collection technique
Fonte seminale	Akyildiz, I. F., Su, W., Sankarasubramaniam, Y., & Cayirci, E. (2002). Wireless sensor networks: A survey. Computer Networks, 38(4), 393–422.	Lanza, S. T., Collins, L. M., Lemmon, D. R., & Schafer, J. L. (2005). PROC LCA: A SAS procedure for latent class analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 14(4), 671–694. [For longitudinal intensive repeated-measures designs context, see also: Shiffman, S., Stone, A. A., & Hufford, M. R. (2008). Ecological momentary assessment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 4, 1–32.]
Alias	remote sensing data acquisition, wireless sensor data collection, distributed sensor data collection, telemetric data collection	long-term sensor monitoring, longitudinal sensing, continuous sensor logging, repeated-measures sensor collection
Correlati	6	3
Sintesi	Remote sensor data collection is the systematic acquisition of measurements from geographically distributed sensing devices without requiring direct human presence at each location. Sensors continuously or periodically record physical, chemical, or biological variables — temperature, pressure, motion, light, GPS coordinates — and transmit readings wirelessly or via network to a central repository for analysis. Widely used in environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, health informatics, and smart infrastructure.	Longitudinal sensor data collection deploys physical or digital sensors to record phenomena continuously or at regular intervals across an extended study period — days, months, or years. Unlike one-shot measurement, the repeated temporal structure captures change, trajectory, and variability in outcomes such as physical activity, environmental exposure, sleep, or physiological state. The approach combines the ecological validity of real-world sensing with the analytical power of longitudinal design.