Experimental investigation of the electromagnetic interference of ZigBee transmitters on measurement instruments

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2118-2127

  Betta, Giovanni ^a   Capriglione, Domenico ^a   Ferrigno, Luigi ^a   Miele, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic compatibility; Measurement; Short range transmitters; Susceptibility; Wireless; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INSTRUMENTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; TESTING; TRANSMITTERS;

ELECTRO MAGNETIC INTERFERENCES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; LOW POWERS; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; OPERATING RANGES; PERFORMANCE DECAY; SHORT-RANGE TRANSMITTERS; SUSCEPTIBILITY; TIME-DOMAIN MEASUREMENTS; WIRELESS; WIRELESS MODULES; WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS; ZIGBEE;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING;

EID: 52649171400     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.922105     Document Type: Article

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