Feasibility of energy harvesting for powering wireless sensors in transportation infrastructure applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6934, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ashebo, Demeke Beyene ^a   Tan, Chin An ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Li, Gang ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PUBLIC WORKS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

ENERGY HARVESTING; ROAD SAFETY; VEHICLE-INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATION (VII);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 43449087000     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777866     Document Type: Conference Paper

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