A low-cost wireless system for autonomous generation of road safety alerts

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7292, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages

  Banks, B ^a   Harms, T ^a   Sarvestani, S Sedigh ^a   Bastianini, F ^b  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alert generation; Low power consumption; Remote monitoring; Road safety; Structural health monitoring; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

ALERT GENERATION; LOW POWER CONSUMPTION; REMOTE MONITORING; ROAD SAFETY; STRUCTURAL HEALTH; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BRIDGES; CONCRETE BRIDGES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HEALTH; REMOTE CONTROL; ROADS AND STREETS; RURAL AREAS; SENSOR NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; WATER LEVELS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 77955674821     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.817851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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