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Gutiérrez, álvaroCorresponding AuthorGonzalez, CarlosAuthorZazo, SantiagoAuthorJimenez-Leube, JavierAuthor

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June 9, 2019
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Cattle-Powered Node Experience in a Heterogeneous Network for Localization of Herds

Publicated to: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS. 60 (8): 3176-3184 - 2013-08-01 60(8), DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2201435

Authors:

Gutierrez, Alvaro; Dopico, Nelson I; Gonzalez, Carlos; Zazo, Santiago; Jimenez-Leube, Javier; Raos, Ivana
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Ingn Telecomunicac, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

A heterogeneous network, mainly based on nodes that use harvested energy to self-energize, is presented, and its use is demonstrated. The network, mostly kinetically powered, has been used for the localization of herds in grazing areas under extreme climate conditions. The network consists of secondary and primary nodes. The former, powered by a kinetic generator, take advantage of animal movements to broadcast a unique identifier. The latter are battery-powered and gather secondary-node-transmitted information to provide it, along with position and time data, to a final base station in charge of the animal monitoring. Because a limited human interaction is desirable, the aim of this network is to reduce the battery count of the system.
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Keywords

AnimalsBase stationsBatteriesCoilsEnergy harvestingEnergy-aware networkGeneratorsGlobal positioning systemMovementsRepeatersUbiquitous systemsWireless sensor networks

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2013, it was in position 2/59, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Automation & Control Systems.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-27, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 26
  • Scopus: 33
  • Google Scholar: 38
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-27:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 34.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 34 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/28867/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 351
  • Downloads: 278
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (GUTIERREZ MARTIN, ALVARO) and Last Author (Raos, Ivana).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been GUTIERREZ MARTIN, ALVARO.

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Awards linked to the item

This work was supported in part by the Community of Madrid and the European Social Fund; by the Seventh Framework Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) project Networking for Communications Challenged Communities (N4C)-Networking for Challenged Communications Citizens: Innovative Alliances and Test Beds Project (FP7-ICT-223994-N4C), which was supported in part by the European Union and in part by the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry under the complementary action Grant TEC 2008-04644-E; by TEC2009-14219-C03-01; by CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 under Grant CSD2008-00010 Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks (COMONSENS); by the European Commission under Grant FP7-ICT-2009-4-248894-WHERE-2; and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under Grant TEC2010-21217-C02-02-CR4HFDVL.
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