A low cost concept for data acquisition systems applied to decentralized renewable energy plants

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 743-756

  Jucá, Sandro C S ^a   Carvalho, Paulo C M ^b   Brito, Fábio T ^a  

^a IFCE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Data acquisition systems; Monitoring; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251603394     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110100743     Document Type: Article

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