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Energy Scavenging for Embedded Electronic Systems
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Energy Scavenging for Embedded Electronic Systems

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Power Electronics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2016) | Viewed by 6337

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Davide Brunelli

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: energy harvesting; ultra-low-power sensors; IoT; energy-neutral devices
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is intended to explore the challenges, issues, and opportunities in the research, design, and engineering of energy-harvesting and energy-neutral sensing systems. These are an enabling technology for Internet-of-Things IoT applications and pervasive computing.

Innovative solutions in hardware for energy scavenging and power management policies in low-power architectures are solicited, describing advances in sensing systems powered by energy harvesting, as well as those which describe practical implementation experiences.

High quality technical articles will be reviewed by top experts in the field.

Dr. Davide Brunelli
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • energy harvesting
  • energy-neutral embedded systems
  • low power devices
  • transiently powered computing
  • electronics for iot
  • advanced for low-power sensing

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Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node for Telemetry Applications Optimized for Low Illumination Levels
by Ljubomir Vračar, Aneta Prijić, Damir Nešić, Saša Dević and Zoran Prijić
Electronics 2016, 5(2), 26; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/electronics5020026 - 01 Jun 2016
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This paper reports the design of a photovoltaic energy harvesting device used as a telemetry node in wireless sensor networks. The device draws power from the small solar cell, stores it into the primary energy buffer and backup supercapacitor, collects measured data from [...] Read more.
This paper reports the design of a photovoltaic energy harvesting device used as a telemetry node in wireless sensor networks. The device draws power from the small solar cell, stores it into the primary energy buffer and backup supercapacitor, collects measured data from various sensors and transmits them over low power radio link at 868 MHz. Its design ensures reliable cold booting under very poor illumination conditions (down to 20 lx). The solar cell also enables indirect illumination level detection for the subcircuit that manages stored energy (day/night detector). The device is allowed to draw power from the backup supercapacitor only when it is not possible to gather enough energy from the solar cell during the sleep period. Short lasting and sudden drops of the illumination do not activate the backup power supply. A wireless sensor node design is adjusted to the proposed photovoltaic harvesting circuitry, so the overall power consumption in the sleep mode is less than 25 μW. Also, due to adaptive power consumption, proposed device topology ensures its autonomy time in the total darkness of 81 h. The device has been produced using commercially available components enabling versatile telemetric functionality by the implementation of different sensors. Full article
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