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DEBU
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Integrating Renewable Energy Using Data Analytics Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
The variable and intermittent nature of many renewable energy sources makes integrating them into the electric grid challenging and limits their penetration. The current grid requ...
Andrew Krioukov, Christoph Goebel, Sara Alspaugh, ...
SENSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
eShare: a capacitor-driven energy storage and sharing network for long-term operation
The ability to move energy around makes it feasible to build distributed energy storage systems that can robustly extend the lifetime of networked sensor systems. eShare supports ...
Ting Zhu, Yu Gu, Tian He, Zhi-Li Zhang
MAM
2007
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14 years 9 days ago
Indoor solar energy harvesting for sensor network router nodes
A unique method has been developed to scavenge solar energy from monocrystalline solar cells to power wireless router nodes that are used in indoor applications. This method elimi...
Abhiman Hande, Todd Polk, William Walker, Dinesh B...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
184views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2010»
14 years 19 days ago
Hybrid energy storage system integration for vehicles
Energy consumption and the associated environmental impact are a pressing challenge faced by the transportation sector. Emerging electric-drive vehicles have shown promises for su...
Jia Wang, Kun Li, Qin Lv, Hai Zhou, Li Shang
ISLPED
2010
ACM
351views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2010»
14 years 19 days ago
Hybrid electrical energy storage systems
Electrical energy is a high quality form of energy that can be easily converted to other forms of energy with high efficiency and, even more importantly, it can be used to control...
Massoud Pedram, Naehyuck Chang, Younghyun Kim, Yan...
ISLPED
2010
ACM
204views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2010»
14 years 19 days ago
Maximum power transfer tracking for a photovoltaic-supercapacitor energy system
It is important to maintain high efficiency when charging electrical energy storage elements so as to achieve holistic optimization from an energy generation source (e.g., a solar...
Younghyun Kim, Naehyuck Chang, Yanzhi Wang, Massou...
IPSN
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Perpetual environmentally powered sensor networks
— Environmental energy is an attractive power source for low power wireless sensor networks. We present Prometheus, a system that intelligently manages energy transfer for perpet...
Xiaofan Jiang, Joseph Polastre, David E. Culler