A Relocable and Resilient Distributed Measurement System for Electromagnetic Exposure Assessment

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4595-4604

  Viani, Federico ^a   Polo, Alessandro ^a   Donelli, Massimo ^a   Giarola, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic exposure assessment; environmental monitoring; relocable field probes; resilient monitoring systems; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; MONITORING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PROBES; TUNING; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; FIELD PROBES; MONITORING ARCHITECTURE; MONITORING SYSTEM; SELF-TUNING CAPABILITIES;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84968677684     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2016.2536804     Document Type: Article

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