Integrating passive UHF RFID tags with WSN nodes: Challenges and opportunities

Journal of Communications Software and Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 99-106

  De Donno, Danilo ^a   Stefanizzi, Maria Laura ^a   Catarinucci, Luca ^a   Mainetti, Luca ^a   Patrono, Luigi ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integration approach; RFID; UHF; Wake up radio.; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911426554     PISSN: 18456421     EISSN: 18466079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24138/jcomss.v10i2.130     Document Type: Article

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