A review of wireless sensor technologies and applications in agriculture and food industry: State of the art and current trends

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4728-4750

  Ruiz Garcia, Luis ^a   Lunadei, Loredana ^a   Barreiro, Pilar ^a   Robla, Jose Ignacio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL METALLURGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Food; RFID; WSN

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD INDUSTRIES; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; STATE OF THE ART; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; WSN; WSN (WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS);

FOOD PRODUCTS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ZIGBEE;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 70349645089     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90604728     Document Type: Review

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