A survey of wireless sensor technologies applied to precision agriculture

Precision Agriculture 2013 - Papers Presented at the 9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 801-808

  Barcelo Ordinas, J M ^a   Chanet, J P ^b   Hou, K M ^c   Garcia Vidal, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Mobility networks; Smart phones; Tag based systems; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; MOBILITY NETWORKS; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; TAG-BASED SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORK; WIRELESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY;

SENSORS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84893358485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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