—Recent advances in energy harvesting materials and ultra-low-power communications will soon enable the realization of networks composed of energy harvesting devices. These devic...
Abstract--With the convergence of ultra-low-power communications and energy-harvesting technologies, networking selfsustainable ubiquitous devices is becoming feasible. Hence, we h...
Maria Gorlatova, T. Sharma, D. Shrestha, E. Xu, Ji...
—Energy harvesting sensor platforms have opened up a new dimension to the design of network protocols. In order to sustain the network operation, the energy consumption rate cann...
Providing sustainable energy is one of the fundamental challenges for mankind. With energy usage being a part of everyday activities and with the increasingly diversity of energy ...
Albrecht Schmidt, Adrian Friday, Hans-Werner Gelle...
Abstract. Enhanced RFID tag technology especially in the UHF frequency range provides extended functionality like high operating range and sensing and monitoring capabilities. Such...
Alex Janek, Christian Steger, Josef Preishuber-Pfl...
Mobile sensing is difficult without power. Emerging Computational RFIDs (CRFIDs) provide both sensing and generalpurpose computation without batteries--instead relying on small ca...
Jeremy Gummeson, Shane S. Clark, Kevin Fu, Deepak ...
The use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for structural health monitoring is gaining popularity since it allows for a low-cost, rapid and robust assessment of structural integri...
Hwee Pink Tan, Pius W. Q. Lee, Winston Khoon Guan ...
We study the feasibility of extending the lifetime of a wireless sensor network by exploiting mobility. In our system, a small percentage of network nodes are autonomously mobile,...
Mohammad H. Rahimi, Hardik Shah, Gaurav S. Sukhatm...
The use of environmental energy is now emerging as a feasible energy source for embedded and wireless computing systems such as sensor networks where manual recharging or replacem...
Abstract— Sustainable operation of battery powered wireless embedded systems (such as sensor nodes) is a key challenge, and considerable research effort has been devoted to energ...
Vijay Raghunathan, Aman Kansal, Jason Hsu, Jonatha...