Airborne relaying can extend wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to remote human-unfriendly
terrains. However, lossy airborne channels and limited battery of unmanned aerial vehicles …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a convenient way to monitor the physical
environment. They consist of a large number of sensors that have sensing, computing, and …

This contribution provides a systematic literature review of micro aerial vehicle (MAV)
swarms for indoor industrial applications. First, an initial list of 1997 publications that …

Emergency rescue scenarios are considered to be high-risk scenarios. Using a micro air
vehicle (MAV) swarm to explore the environment can provide valuable environmental …

Large-scale micro-aerial vehicle (MAV) swarms provide promising solutions for situational
awareness in applications such as environmental monitoring, urban surveillance, search …

Micro-aerial vehicle (MAV) swarms are a new class of mobile sensor networks with many
applications, including search and rescue, urban surveillance, radiation monitoring, etc …

Indoor emergency response situations, such as urban fire, are characterized by dangerous
constantly changing operating environments with little access to situational information for …

Recent advances in robotics and low-power embedded systems made three-dimensional
(3D) mobile wireless sensor networks (MSNs) an effective solution for monitoring a field of …

Airborne relaying is of potential to extend wireless sensor networks (WSN) to human-
unfriendly terrains. Challenges arise due to lossy airborne channels and limited battery of …

In some embodiments, a meta-data inspection data store may contain hierarchical
components and subcomponents of an industrial asset and define points of interest. An …