Energy options for wireless sensor nodes

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8037-8066

  Knight, Chris ^a   Davidson, Joshua ^b   Behrens, Sam ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Energy storage; Sensor nodes; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BATTERY OPERATED DEVICES; ENERGY OPTIONS; HIGHER ENERGY DENSITY; LOW POWER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY STORAGE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 58149195282     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8128037     Document Type: Review

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