Cattle monitoring system using wireless sensor network in order to prevent cattle rustling

2014 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mashoko Nkwari, P Kibambe ^a   Rimer, S ^a   Paul, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

cattle rustling; Continuous Time Markov Processes; wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

CRIME; PROBABILITY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; BOUNDARY POSITIONS; CATTLE RUSTLING; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV PROCESS; GLOBAL POSITIONING; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RANDOM WALK MODELING; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84906766560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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