AmbiMax: Autonomous Energy Harvesting Platform for Multi-Supply Wireless Sensor Nodes

By Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou. 2006 3rd Annual IEEE Communications Society on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, 2006

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Energy harvesting by means of flow-induced vibrations on aerospace vehicles (2016, methodology): “MPPT was also used in the circuit of [177] together with a super capacitor based energy storage system for WSNs.”
Prolonging Sensor Network Lifetime Through Wireless Charging (2010, background): “Energy conservation [2] [8], environmental energy harvesting [3] [5] [6] [11], incremental deployment, and battery replacement [17] [19] approaches have been proposed to address the problem.”
Computer-Aided Design and Optimization of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (2013, unknown): “Low-power sensor nodes like [130, 131] employ a batterysupercapacitor hybrid as shown Fig.”
Wireless sensor networks for agriculture: The state-of-the-art in practice and future challenges (2015, background): “Alternatively, the potential energy harvesting solutions such as solar power (Everlast [162]), wind power (AmbiMax [163]), biomass, and vibration should also be considered while designing WSN based precision agriculture systems.”
Energy provisioning in wireless rechargeable sensor networks (2011, background): “Known examples of scavengable energy sources include solar [3], vibrations [4], wind [5], and RF signals.”
Joint mobile energy replenishment and data gathering in wireless rechargeable sensor networks (2011, background): “A variety of ambient energy, such as mechanical, thermal, photovoltaic, and electromagnetic energy can be converted into electrical energy to drive sensors or recharge sensor batteries, such that prolonged network lifetime or perpetual operations can be achieved [1][2].”
Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes: Survey and Implications (2011, methodology): “AmbiMax harvests 400mW from a solar panel measuring 3.75in × 2.5in.”
Energy Harvesting From Hybrid Indoor Ambient Light and Thermal Energy Sources for Enhanced Performance of Wireless Sensor Nodes (2011, methodology): “Other hybrid energy harvesting (HEH) approaches discussed in [14]–[ 16 ] focus on different power management schemes to harvest multiple energy sources.”