Emergency guiding and monitoring applications in indoor 3D environments by wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 2-10

  Pan, Meng Shiuan ^a   Tsai, Chia Hung ^a   Tseng, Yu Chee ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Home security; Navigation; Pervasive computing; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY SERVICES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; EMERGENCY EVENTS; HOME SECURITY; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; NAVIGATION PATHS; PROTOCOL CANS; SAFE NAVIGATIONS; SAFER PLACES; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 47249104939     PISSN: 17481279     EISSN: 17481287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2006.010829     Document Type: Article

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