New architecture for a wireless smart sensor based on a software-defined radio

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2133-2141

  Ferrari, Paolo ^a   Flammini, Alessandra ^a   Sisinni, Emiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Performance evaluation; software defined radio (SDR); synchronization; time of flight; wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; EXTERNAL CONDITIONS; FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATION; FRONT END; GIGAHERTZ RANGE; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POSITION SENSING; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO SIGNALS; SENSOR CONDITIONING; SINGLE ANTENNA; SMART DEVICES; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO (SDR); SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TIME OF FLIGHT; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SMART SENSORS;

PHASE MEASUREMENT; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO RECEIVERS; TRANSCEIVERS;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

EID: 79955980370     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2117090     Document Type: Article

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