Design of a flexible and robust gateway to collect sensor data in intermittent power environments

International Journal of Sensor Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 172-181

  Zennaro, M ^a,b   Bagula, Antoine B ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Embedded device; Wireless; Wireless sensor network; WSN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; IEEE STANDARDS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOLAR ENERGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPATIBLE SOLUTIONS; EMBEDDED DEVICE; LOW POWER; LOW-COSTS; POWER; POWER LOW; POWER NETWORKS; POWER SHORTAGE; SENSOR NETWORK GATEWAY; SENSORS DATA;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 79960512570     PISSN: 17481279     EISSN: 17481287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2010.036192     Document Type: Article

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