Environmental sensor networks using existing wireless communication systems for rainfall and wind velocity measurements

IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 32-38

  Messer, Hagit ^a   Zinevich, Artem ^b   Alpert, Pinhas ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; CORE NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR NETWORKS; WEATHER EFFECT; WIND VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

RADIO LINKS; RAIN; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84859724387     PISSN: 10946969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2012.6174577     Document Type: Article

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