Soil Moisture Scatter Radio Networking with Low Power

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2338-2346

  Daskalakis, Spyridon Nektarios ^a   Assimonis, Stylianos D ^a   Kampianakis, Eleftherios ^a   Bletsas, Aggelos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Scatter radio; sensor networks; soil moisture (SM)

Indexed keywords

ARTS COMPUTING; CAPACITIVE SENSORS; COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MODULATION; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOFTWARE RADIO; SOIL MOISTURE;

CAPACITIVE SENSING; COMMUNICATION RANGE; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; RADIO TECHNOLOGIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84974814435     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2572677     Document Type: Article

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