Testing zigBee motes for monitoring refrigerated vegetable transportation under real conditions

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4968-4982

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL METALLURGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cold chain; Food; Logistics; Wireless sensing; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

COLD CHAIN; CONTROL AND MONITORING; DELIVERY SERVICE; PERISHABLE GOODS; PSYCHROMETRIC CHARTS; WIRELESS SENSING; WIRELESS SENSOR; ZIGBEE PROTOCOLS;

EXPERIMENTS; FOOD PRODUCTS; LOGISTICS; SENSOR NODES; SHIPS; TRUCKS;

ZIGBEE;

ACCELERATION; AIR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COLD CHAIN; EQUIPMENT; FOOD; FREEZING; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; LOGISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VEGETABLE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS SENSING; ZIGBEE;

COLD CHAIN; FOOD; LOGISTICS; WIRELESS SENSING; ZIGBEE;

ACCELERATION; AIR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; PRESSURE; REFRIGERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSPORTATION; VEGETABLES; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77953487571     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100504968     Document Type: Article

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