Comprehensive monitoring of firefighters by a Wireless Body Area Sensor Network

IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, WOCN

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ghosh, Saibal K ^a   Chakraborty, Suryadip ^a   Jamthe, Anagha ^a   Agrawal, Dharma P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Firefighting; Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI); Toxic gas monitoring

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE MONITORING; FIREFIGHTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; REAL FIRE SCENARIO; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATORS; TOXIC GAS MONITORING; WIRELESS BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORK; WIRELESS BODY AREA SENSOR NETWORK (WBASN);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS;

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS;

EID: 84887376673     PISSN: 21517681     EISSN: 21517703     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WOCN.2013.6616245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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