Wireless environmental sensor networking with analog scatter radio and timer principles

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3365-3376

  Kampianakis, Eleftherios ^a   Kimionis, John ^a,b   Tountas, Konstantinos ^a   Konstantopoulos, Christos ^a   Koutroulis, Eftichios ^a   Bletsas, Aggelos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

backscatter sensor networks; environmental monitoring; precision agriculture; Scatter radio communication

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ZIGBEE;

COMPLEXITY CONSTRAINTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84906691265     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2331704     Document Type: Article

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