Practical considerations for wireless sensor networks in cattle monitoring applications

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 81, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-44

  Kwong, Kae Hsiang ^a   Wu, Tsung Ta ^a   Goh, Hock Guan ^a   Sasloglou, Konstantinos ^a   Stephen, Bruce ^a   Glover, Ian ^a   Shen, Chong ^b   Du, Wencai ^b   Michie, Craig ^a   Andonovic, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b College of Information Science and Technology ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Cattle monitoring; Data collection; Delay tolerant networking; Hardware and software design; Real time communication; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DESIGN; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ANIMALS; CONDITION MONITORING; EXPERIMENTS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SENSORS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SENSOR NODES;

CATTLE; COMMUNICATION NETWORK; DATA ACQUISITION; HARDWARE; LABORATORY METHOD; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MOBILITY; MONITORING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME; SOFTWARE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 82355164568     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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