Integrating wireless and speech technologies for synchronous on-site data collection

Automation in Construction

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 378-391

  Tsai, Ming Kuan ^a   Yang, Jyh Bin ^b   Lin, Chang Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Information management; Speech application; Synchronous on site data collection; Wireless technology; WLAN

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATERIALS HANDLING; SYNCHRONIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BLUETOOTH; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; SYNCHRONOUS ON-SITE DATA COLLECTION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN);

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33846846204     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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