Design of a wireless communications module for telemetry in civil infrastructure monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 973-977

  Iraqi, Ali ^a   Barwicz, Andrzej ^a   Mermelstein, Paul ^b   Morawski, Roman Z ^c   Bock, Wojtek J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration; Data processing; Intelligent sensors; Optical fiber transducers; Radio telemetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS; TELEMETERING; TRANSDUCERS;

INTELLIGENT SENSORS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0043093793     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.809116     Document Type: Article

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