Evaluation of wireless sensor technologies in a firefighting environment

INSS 2010 - 7th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 157-160

  Schubert, Erhard ^a   Scholz, Markus ^b  

^a eisq GmbH Co KG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; ANTENNA PLACEMENT; BREAD CRUMBS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INDOOR POSITIONING; MOVEMENT PATTERN; NAVIGATION TOOLS; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES; TRAINING FACILITY; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE; WIRELESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; LOCATION; NAVIGATION; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78149252332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INSS.2010.5573957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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