Radio channel characteristics of zigbee wireless sensors in machine shop for plant floor process monitoring

Proceedings of the International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tang, Lei ^a   Wang, Kuang Ching ^a   Huang, Yong ^a   Gu, Fangming ^b  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COST EFFECTIVENESS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROCESS CONTROL; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

PLANT FLOOR PROCESS; WIRELESS NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSORS;

SENSORS;

EID: 33751295892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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