Proactive Infrastructure Monitoring in Smart Cities via WSNs
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https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v50i15.14819Keywords:
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs); Smart Cities; Infrastructure Monitoring; Structural Health Monitoring (SHM); Predictive Maintenance; IoT (Internet of Things); Anomaly Detection; Sensor Deployment; Urban InfrastructureDownloads
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