An Environmental Air Pollution Monitoring System Based on the IEEE 1451 Standard for Low Cost Requirements

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 415-422

  Kularatna, Nihal ^a   Sudantha, B H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b University of Sri Jayawardanepura   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Air pollution monitoring; electronic data sheet; IEEE 1451; network capable application processor; semiconductor gas sensors; smart transducers; transducer independent interface (TII)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008047798     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.917477     Document Type: Article

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