The impact of temperature on outdoor industrial sensornet applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 451-459

  Boano, Carlo Alberto ^a,b   Tsiftes, Nicolas ^a   Voigt, Thiemo ^a   Brown, James ^c   Roedig, Utz ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical equipment enclosures; energy conservation; estimation; industrial control; petroleum industry; power demand; radio communication; temperature; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE; CONTROL ENVIRONMENT; DATA DELIVERY PERFORMANCE; DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; LINK QUALITY; LOW POWER; LOW TEMPERATURES; OIL REFINERIES; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; PORTUGAL; POWER DEMANDS; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; SAFETY REGULATIONS; SENSORNET; TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE; TRANSMISSION POWER; WIRELESS SENSOR; WORKER SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMMUNICATION; DESIGN; ENCLOSURES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; RADIO; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 77955710723     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2009.2035111     Document Type: Article

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