SensorFly: Controlled-mobile sensing platform for indoor emergency response applications

Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 223-234

  Purohit, Aveek ^a   Sun, Zheng ^a   Mokaya, Frank ^a   Zhang, Pei ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial Networks; Hardware Design; Mobile Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

3-D SENSING; ADAPTIVITY; AERIAL NETWORKS; AERIAL SENSORS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FIRST RESPONDERS; HARDWARE DESIGN; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; IN-SITU; LOW-COST SENSORS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; NETWORK PLATFORMS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT; SENSING ACCURACY; SENSING PLATFORMS; STATIC SENSOR NETWORKS; URBAN FIRE;

DATA PROCESSING; HARDWARE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 79959287966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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