Energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review

By Faisal Karim Shaikh, Sherali Zeadally. 2016

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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A Review on Mechanisms for Piezoelectric-Based Energy Harvesters (2018, background): “The piezoelectric transduction mechanism is the most efficient mechanism for microelectronics [44], wireless sensors [45], and nanoelectronics [46] because they are easy to fabricate [47,48] and are able to harvest energy at variable frequencies [49–51].”
Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs) (2018, background): “Moreover, it is difficult to integrate piezoelectric devices into a small system (Wang 2012b; Shaikh and Zeadally 2016b).”
Survey on Collaborative Smart Drones and Internet of Things for Improving Smartness of Smart Cities (2019, background): “Sensors can utilize energy harvested directly from the environment such as the sun, vibrations, kinetic energy, temperature differentials, etc. [86]–[88].”
Review of IoT applications in agro-industrial and environmental fields (2017, background): “In WSN scenarios, the current challenge is to develop multi-source energy harvesters and ultra-efficient sensors to create battery-free solutions, (Shaikh and Zeadally, 2016).”
Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters (2021, background): “Corresponding energy harvesters based on different technologies can not only offset the shortcoming of a limited lifetime for battery but also be applied to power IoT devices and support wireless sensor networks [23].”
Energy Harvesting Techniques for Internet of Things (IoT) (2021, background): “The helio-electrical process is based on the Photo-Voltaic (PV) effect, that can be observed when two dissimilar materials convert solar rays into DC (direct current) power when struck by light [24].”
Exploring the Full Potentials of IoT for Better Financial Growth and Stability: A Comprehensive Survey (2023, background): “Additionally, advancements in 5G and beyond promise higher data rates and reduced latency, potentially providing the necessary bandwidth to support IoT’s data influx [63,64,134,146].”
A Survey of Device-to-Device Communications: Research Issues and Challenges (2018, background): “2) Interference, Friend or Foe?: Interference in D2D networks can be used to gain various advantages in terms of security and RF energy harvesting [157]–[159].”
Wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring: A contemporary review of technologies, challenges, and future direction (2019, methodology): “Power efficiency is a primary crucial aspect in the development of WSNs.”