An architecture for a dependable distributed sensor system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 408-419

  Zug, Sebastian ^a   Dietrich, André ^a   Kaiser, Jörg ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data fusion; distributed system; fault tolerance; intelligent sensors; smart sensors

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SENSOR SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM; FAULT-TOLERANT; GENERIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION SUPPORT; INTELLIGENT SENSORS; LOW QUALITIES; MEASUREMENT DATA; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NETWORKED SENSORS; SMART ENVIRONMENT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA FUSION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SMART SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 78651281582     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2085871     Document Type: Article

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