Smart bridges, smart tunnels: Transforming wireless sensor networks from research prototypes into robust engineering infrastructure

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 872-888

  Stajano, Frank ^a   Hoult, Neil ^a   Wassell, Ian ^a   Bennett, Peter ^a   Middleton, Campbell ^a   Soga, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civil engineering; Deployment; Radio propagation; Realworld experience; Security; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURES; INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT; NODE DEPLOYMENT; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; RADIO PROPAGATION; REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE; RESEARCH PROTOTYPE; ROBUST ENGINEERING; SENSOR HARDWARE; SMART BRIDGE; SYSTEM SECURITY;

BRIDGES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA VISUALIZATION; RADIO WAVES; RESEARCH; SECURITY OF DATA; SENSOR NETWORKS; VISUALIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77955672009     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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