Modular wireless real-time sensor/actuator network for factory automation applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 111-118

  Körber, Hans Jörg ^b   Wattar, Housam ^b   Scholl, Gerd ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Factory automation systems; Multipath radio propagation; Real time communications; Wireless sensor actuator network

Indexed keywords

FACTORY AUTOMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH RADIO PROPAGATION; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR/ACTUATOR NETWORK;

ACTUATORS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SENSORS; TOPOLOGY;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34249859365     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2007.898451     Document Type: Article

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