Applications of wireless sensor networks in marine environment monitoring: A survey

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 16932-16954

  Xu, Guobao ^a   Shen, Weiming ^b   Wang, Xianbin ^b  

^a GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buoys; Energy harvesting; Marine environment monitoring; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; ENERGY HARVESTING; MARINE APPLICATIONS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SENSOR NODES; SHIPS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; OCEANOGRAPHIC MONITORING; OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

MONITORING;

EID: 84907223064     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140916932     Document Type: Review

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