Distributed sensing floor for an intelligent environment

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1673-1678

  Shen, Yu Lin ^a   Shin, Chow Shing ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed sensing floor; Location tracking; Optical sensing technology

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN OPTICAL CORRELATION DOMAIN ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; DISTRIBUTED SENSING FLOOR; ESTIMATION ERRORS; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT; LOCATION DETECTION; LOCATION TRACKING; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; OPTICAL SENSING TECHNOLOGY; PRESSURE EVENTS; SIMPLE METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ERROR DETECTION; FLOORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; POWER CONTROL;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 70350647458     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2030650     Document Type: Article

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