Wireless sensor networks for condition monitoring in the railway industry: A survey

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1088-1106

  Hodge, Victoria J ^a   O'Keefe, Simon ^a   Weeks, Michael ^a   Moulds, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asset management; condition monitoring; decision support systems; event detection; maintenance engineering; preventive maintenance; railway engineering; wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASSET MANAGEMENT; CONDITION MONITORING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL RAILROADS; MACHINERY; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MONITORING; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILS; SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EVENT DETECTION; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKING; RAILWAY ENGINEERING; RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE; VEHICLE HEALTH MONITORING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS); WIRELESS SENSORS NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 85027931511     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2014.2366512     Document Type: Article

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