Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes: Survey and Implications

By Sujesha Sudevalayam, Purushottam Kulkarni. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2011

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring: A contemporary review of technologies, challenges, and future direction (2019, background): “Likewise, for assuring reliability where data retransmission is required frequently, communication protocols and scheduling strategy must be adapted to fulfill the requirements of application level in EH WSNs for SHM.(180) Storing electrical energy approaches are considered major technologies that w”
Towards Efficient Wireless Video Sensor Networks: A Survey of Existing Node Architectures and Proposal for A Flexi-WVSNP Design (2011, background): “power savings achieved by duty cycling through these power modes with the frequency of checking the radio channels and the cost of waking up for channel checking [40], [47], [48].”
Rotational energy harvesting using bi-stability and frequency up-conversion for low-power sensing applications: Theoretical modelling and experimental validation (2019, background): “Energy harvesting, a technology to convert ambient environmental passive energy, including solar, thermal gradient and kinetic energy, into electricity, has been regarded as a sustainable energy supply and a potential alternative to conventional batteries [6].”
A Survey of Wearable Devices and Challenges (2017, background): “For seeking more details about the fundamental mechanism of different energy harvesting techniques, and their usages in other disciplines, we encourage readers refer to [216], [217].”
Wireless Charging Technologies: Fundamentals, Standards, and Network Applications (2015, background): “In [12], the authors gave an overview of the sensor nodes powered by”
Underwater Optical Wireless Communications, Networking, and Localization: A Survey (2018, background): “As surveyed in [390], ongoing research efforts on terrestrial communications have shown that energy harvesting plays a significant role in enhancing the performance.”
A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: The Communication Perspective (2017, background): “Off-grid renewable energy, such as solar radiation and wind energy, recently, has emerged as a viable and promising power source for various IT systems thanks to the recent advancements of energy harvesting (EH) techniques [195], [196].”
A Survey of Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G and Beyond: Fundamentals, Technology Integration, and State-of-the-Art (2019, neutral): “At the network-level, MEC can allow deploying a centralized EH strategy to tune the functionality of all devices for better EH and performance [108].”
Advances in Energy Harvesting Communications: Past, Present, and Future Challenges (2016, background): “3) Mechanical Motion/Vibration Energy Sources: Electric power can also be produced by extracting energy from mechanical motion and vibration through transduction methods, including electrostatic, piezoelectric and electromagnetic [3]– [6].”
Joint Energy Harvesting and Communication Analysis for Perpetual Wireless Nanosensor Networks in the Terahertz Band (2012, neutral): “Conventional energy harvesting mechanisms, e.g., solar energy, wind power, or underwater turbulences [23], [32], cannot be utilized in WNSNs.”
A Survey on Wireless Body Area Networks: Technologies and Design Challenges (2014, methodology): “A survey on duty cycle mechanisms to keep the energy consumption low in wireless sensor network is given in [25], while [26] is a survey on energy harvesting techniques that can be also applied in WBAN using the human body as source of energy.”
Energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks: A top-down survey (2014, background): “Energy harvesting: New technologies have been developed to enable sensors to harvest energy from their surrounding environment such as solar, wind and kinetic energy [5].”
Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH-WSNs) (2018, methodology): “…out the various energy sources, storage technologies, communication network operations, and specific implementation areas where sensor networks are applicable and deployable (Paradiso and Starner 2005; Gilbert and Balouchi 2008; Wan et al. 2011; Sudevalayam and Kulkarni 2011; Ku et al. 2016).”