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Welcome to IWSSS’19 Christian DECKER a and Keiichi YASUMOTO b a Reutlingen University, Germany b Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan During the past years, sensing technologies have become an important field in computer science and technologies as seen in the trend of cyber physical systems (CPS), machine- to-machine (M2M) systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Researchers in sensing technologies provide technological means to capture environmental, technical, physiological and other data. They provide the raw materials on which smart applications and services will be built. Sensor data are the basis for the smart world. Due to various characteristics of sensor data and their corresponding processing requirements, such as multisource, heterogeneous, real-time, voluminous, continuous, streaming, ever- expanding and spatio-temporal, many traditional data processing and integration approaches begin to show their limitations, particularly when dealing with situations like sensor data and its application deluge. We aim to bring together topics from several layers of data processing; from devices to services to enable novel ideas and collaboration combining the information from multiple sources. Following the success of our previous workshops: IWSSS 2016 in Hiroshima, IWSSS 2017 in Oulu and IWSSS 2018 in Rome, the fourth edition, the 2019 International Workshop on Smart Sensing Systems (IWSSS 2019) is held in Rabat, Morocco, in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE’19). IWSSS 2019 provides a forum for exchange of experience among researchers from industry and academia actively involved in research, development and evaluation of new concepts, theoretical methods and experimental characterization for smart sensing systems and for debating different innovative solutions. The workshop received 7 submissions and accepted 5 regular papers out of them. We have an exciting program that cover many topics of smart sensing systems. We would like to thank all the authors who contributed papers and the technical program committee members for completing reviews under a very tight schedule. Finally, we thank the IE 2019 workshop chairs, Andrés Muñoz Ortega and Sofia Ouhbi for all the support during the organization of the workshops. Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190034 141