Field operational testing for safety improvement of freight trains using wireless monitoring by sensor network

IET Wireless Sensor Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 54-60

  Grudén, Mathias ^a   Hinnemo, Malkolm ^a   Dancila, Dragos ^a   Zherdev, Filip ^a   Edvinsson, Nils ^a   Brunberg, Kjell ^b   Andersson, Lennart ^c   Byström, Roger ^c   Rydberg, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPWIS AB   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALL BEARINGS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MAINTENANCE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO LINKS; RADIO WAVES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; SCHEDULING; SENSOR NODES;

ENERGY SCAVENGING; ENERGY SCAVENGING DEVICES; EXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS; MONITORING THE TEMPERATURES; OPERATIONAL TESTING; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SAFETY IMPROVEMENT; WIRELESS MONITORING;

SAFETY TESTING;

EID: 84901917743     PISSN: 20436386     EISSN: 20436394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-wss.2013.0048     Document Type: Article

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