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The EU ReCO2ST project improves the energy efficiency and comfort levels of older structures by refurbishing them. These buildings are spread across Europe to account for the variability of climate that can be experienced on the continent. [1]–[3] The project needs Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to provide sensory information to an Intelligent Energy Management System (IEMS) to improve functionality of older buildings that have poor energy efficiency. WSNs are becoming a major focus point in how we can provide more information in support of the Internet of Things [4], [5], [3]. As these WSNs become more prevalent there is more reason to focus on how to configure and deploy them systematically and robustly. This paper looks at using Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) sensors to provide this systematic and robust setup. A WSN's system quality and robustness are dependent on factors such as the communication protocols, (how data is sent), how data is stored and how its data is accessed. Using COTS sensors, a WSN can be created with a standard base technology, and this allows for easy integration of many types of sensors. ; This research/work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No 768576 and project name ReCO2ST.

Migration into, out of, and within East Asia (comprising Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia) will undoubtedly increase as we continue into the twenty-first century. We need sustained research to provide fresh insights into transnational migrants' changing subjective positions and power as they move in/out of East Asia, constructing complex social locations as they live their lives transnationally. The papers in this special issue focus on three issues that are of pertinence to the transnational migrations and the resulting migrant transnationalisms of those who move for work, education, marriage and retirement, and as refugees, in the context of East Asia: the power structures (including the institutional regulatory frameworks of sending and receiving societies) within which migrants must operate; migrants' multiple and shifting social positions as they move; and the transnational connections and networks they maintain over the course of their migration journeys.