PL-Tags: Detecting batteryless tags through the power lines in a building

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5538 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 256-273

  Patel, Shwetak N ^a   Stuntebeck, Erich P ^b   Robertson, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware; Pervasive computing; Power lines; Sensing; Sensors; Tagging; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

BATTERY-LESS; ELECTRICAL LOAD; ELECTRICAL TRANSIENTS; LIGHT SWITCHES; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; PERVASIVE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; PLUG-IN; POWER LINES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SENSING; TAG SYSTEMS; TAGGING;

ELECTRIC LINES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 67650314929     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01516-8_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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