Crowd density estimation using wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - 2011 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, MSN 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 138-145

  Yuan, Yaoxuan ^a   Qiu, Chen ^a   Xi, Wei ^a   Zhao, Jizhong ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Estimation of crowd density; RSSI; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; CROWD DENSITY; HIGH COSTS; ITERATIVE PROCESS; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; RSSI; SCOPE OF APPLICATION; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL CORRELATION; TIME SLOTS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS;

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 84862972982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSN.2011.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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