Design considerations for solar energy harvesting wireless embedded systems

By Vijay Raghunathan, Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Jonathan Friedman, Mani B. Srivastava. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005., 2005

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

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Harvesting Energy From Magnetic Fields to Power Condition Monitoring Sensors (2013, neutral): “Energy sources such as wind [2], [3] and solar [4], [5] are obvious options, where power levels can be considerable.”
Everlast: Long-life, Supercapacitor-operated Wireless Sensor Node (2006, background): “With some external circuitry and a solar panel, the batteries can be recharged each day for significantly extended operations [4].”
SensorScope: Application-specific sensor network for environmental monitoring (2010, methodology): “In the spirit of Heliomote [Raghunathan et al. 2005], we have designed a solar energy system to achieve autonomy during deployments.”
Electromechanical impedance of piezoelectric transducers for monitoring metallic and non-metallic structures: A review of wired, wireless and energy-harvesting methods (2013, methodology): “Effective energy-harvesting methods developed in the recent past, such as solar-powered harvesting (Dond et al., 2007; Min et al., 2010b; Raghunathan et al., 2005) and thermal energy harvesting (Grisso et al.”
Wireless sensor networks powered by ambient energy harvesting (WSN-HEAP) - Survey and challenges (2009, background): “Instead, information about future energy availability is required to make optimal routing decisions [13].”
Networking Low-Power Energy Harvesting Devices: Measurements and Algorithms (2011, background): “D may represent, for example, the energy harvested by a mobile device in a short (seconds or minutes) time slot.”
Prototype implementation of ambient RF energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (2010, background): “By tuning the rectenna to several broadcast channels, it is possible to double and triple the amount of power.”
SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring (2008, background): “In the spirit of Heliomote [ 11 ], we have designed a solar energy system to achieve sufficient autonomy during deployments.”
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.”
AmbiMax: Autonomous Energy Harvesting Platform for Multi-Supply Wireless Sensor Nodes (2006, background): “1) PWM Switching Regulator: In contrast to previous designs that connect the solar panel either directly to a supercapacitor or battery though a diode [5], [4], we put the PWM switching regulator between the ambient power source and the reservoir capacitors.”
Multimodal Energy Harvesting System: Piezoelectric and Electromagnetic (2009, background): “The generated electric energy is stored in matching media selected by microprocessor depending upon the power magnitude and output impedance (Williams and Yates, 1996; Poulin et al., 2004; Raghunathan et al., 2005; Priya, 2005; Rabaey and Verstraete, 2005; Priya et al., 2006).”
TOPICS IN AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS (2007, neutral): “While continuously operating at or close to the MPP ensures that maximum energy is drawn from the solar panel over the course of a day, other factors influence how much of this energy is actually available to the sensor node.”
Optimal energy management policies for energy harvesting sensor nodes (2008, background): “[17] discusses the various components, design choices, and tradeoffs in efficient design of such a mote.”
Optimal Status Update for Age of Information Minimization With an Energy Harvesting Source (2017, background): “Meanwhile, typical output power under average conditions for different EH technologies, such as indoor solar cells, piezoelectric cells and wireless power transfer, ranges from below 100 μW to hundreds of μW [46]–[48].”
A Survey of Wearable Devices and Challenges (2017, background): “Because of the abundant energy source and high power density, energy harvesting from solar and ambient light has been widely studied in powering and extending the operational time of wireless sensor networks [236], [237], [238].”