Studying the feasibility of energy harvesting in a mobile sensor network

By Mohammad H. Rahimi, Hardik Shah, G. Sukhatme, John S. Heidemann, Deborah Estrin. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003

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Adaptive Control of Duty Cycling in Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (2007, background): “Recent work [1]–[4] has explored scenarios in which nodes can harvest energy from their environment (e.g., from the sun) and use it to recharge their batteries.”
Mobile Element Scheduling with Dynamic Deadlines (2007, background): “An example of such a system is [17], which presented energy harvesting in a mobile sensor network.”
Intelligent fluid infrastructure for embedded networks (2004, background): “Mobile components can also support other system activities such as delivering required resources [15, 32].”
Controllably mobile infrastructure for low energy embedded networks (2006, background): “Index Terms—Mobile networking, controlled mobility, wireless sensor networks.”
Structural Health Monitoring Using Smart Sensors (2007, background): “There have been several attempts to harvest energy at sensor nodes locally, for example, from mechanical vibration (Rahimi et al. 2003).”
Wireless sensor network survey (2008, background): “Potential energy sources include solar cells [8] [9], vibration [10], fuel cells, acoustic noise, and a mobile supplier [11].”
Optimal energy management policies for energy harvesting sensor nodes (2008, background): “Early papers on energy harvesting in sensor networks are [14] and [15].”