Converting a plant to a battery and wireless sensor with scatter radio and ultra-low cost

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 388-398

  Konstantopoulos, Christos ^a,b   Koutroulis, Eftichios ^a   Mitianoudis, Nikolaos ^c   Bletsas, Aggelos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Plant; Scatter radio; Wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY HARVESTING; FACTORIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRESSES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDY; INTRACELLULAR PROCESS; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; PLANT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 85027949984     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2495718     Document Type: Article

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