Remote flood monitoring system based on plastic optical fibres and wireless motes

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 449-455

  Kuang, Kevin Sze Chiang ^a   Quek, Ser Tong ^a   Maalej, Mohamed ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flood monitoring; Plastic optical fibre sensor; Remote sensing; Wireless monitoring

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LIQUIDS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SENSORS; PLASTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WATER LEVELS;

BASE STATIONS; FLOOD MONITORING; LIQUID LEVELS; LIQUID-LEVEL SENSOR; LOSS RATIO; MONITORING POINTS; MOTE SENSORS; OPTICAL SIGNALLING; OPTICAL-; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBRE; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBRE SENSOR; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBRES; REMOTE SENSING; SENSING PRINCIPLE; SENSOR TIPS; SENSOR UNIT; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SIGNAL STABILITY; SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION; WAVE BASINS; WIRELESS MONITORING; WIRELESS PLATFORMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 49649117421     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2008.05.030     Document Type: Article

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