From radio telemetry to ultra-low-power sensor networks: Tracking bats in the wild

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 129-135

  Dressler, Falko ^a   Ripperger, Simon ^b   Hierold, Martin ^c   Nowak, Thorsten ^c   Eibel, Christopher ^c   Cassens, Bjorn ^b,d   Mayer, Frieder ^b   Meyer Wegener, Klaus ^c   Kolpin, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low power electronics; Mobile nodes; Telemetry; Tracking; Wildlife; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; SENSOR NODES; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEMETERING; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CODING TECHNIQUES; INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS; MOBILE NODES; TRACKING SOLUTIONS; ULTRA-LOW-POWER SENSORS; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE MONITORING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84962022327     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.7378438     Document Type: Article

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