Industrial wireless sensor networks: A selection of challenging applications

Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 64-68

  Hancke, Gerhard P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

applications; Industrial wireless sensor networks; Smart Grid; underground

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; FINANCIAL OBJECTIVES; GROWING DEMAND; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; INDUSTRIAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; LOW-COST DEVICES; MOVING PARTS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PROCESS EFFICIENCY; RESEARCH ISSUES; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-HEALING SYSTEMS; SMART GRID; UNDERGROUND;

ANTENNAS; APPLICATIONS; CABLES; COMPETITION; SMART POWER GRIDS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84862901482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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