RF Energy Harvesting and Transport for Wireless Sensor Network Applications: Principles and Requirements

By Hubregt J. Visser, Ruud J. M. Vullers. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2013

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Advances in Energy Harvesting Communications: Past, Present, and Future Challenges (2016, background): “Unlike the traditional battery-operated communications, the energy of ambient energy sources available to energy harvesting communication nodes is time-variant and often sporadic even though there is potentially an infinite amount of energy.”
A Compact 2.45-GHz Broadband Rectenna Using Grounded Coplanar Waveguide (2015, background): “With the development of wireless communications, MPT is becoming one of the most promising charging manners for the electronic devices, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) [1], wireless sensors [2] and so on.”
Wireless Charging Technologies: Fundamentals, Standards, and Network Applications (2015, methodology): “realized through either non-directive RF radiation or directive RF beamforming [140].”
A Survey of Energy-Efficient Techniques for 5G Networks and Challenges Ahead (2016, background): “Surveys on this approach are [114] and [115].”
A High-Efficiency Broadband Rectenna for Ambient Wireless Energy Harvesting (2015, background): “Various designs, such as single-band rectennas and arrays [1]–[7], multiband rectennas [8]–[12], and broadband rectenna arrays [13], have already been investigated and different antennas and rectifier designs have also been analyzed and summarized in such as [14] and [15].”
A Survey of Network Lifetime Maximization Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks (2017, background): “Energy harvesting [159]–[163] is a relatively new concept in wireless sensor networks, where a sensor has the capability to convert various forms of environmental energy into electricity in order to supply the sensor node.”
Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT): Recent Advances and Future Challenges (2018, background): “In [21], firstly the feasibility of EH and trans-”
Communications and Signals Design for Wireless Power Transmission (2016, background): “y e 2. At the receiver side, the vast majority of the technical efforts in the literature to increase the RF-to-DC conversion efﬁciency e 3 have been devoted to the design of efﬁcient rectennas, a.o. [100]. It therefore appears that an efﬁcient design of WPT system would consist in an energy beamfor”
Wireless Networks With RF Energy Harvesting: A Contemporary Survey (2014, background): “R ECENTLY, there has been an upsurge of research interests in radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting/scavenging technique (see [1] and references therein), or RF harvesting in short, which is the capability of converting the received RF signals into electricity.”
Ambient RF Energy-Harvesting Technologies for Self-Sustainable Standalone Wireless Sensor Platforms (2014, background): “Some reported far-field wireless energy-harvesting systems used a directive beamforming technique to known sources’ directions in order to collect a larger amount of power [11]–[13], while other systems utilize almost isotropic antennas when the direction of the sources in not well known or is time ”