Energy harvesting embedded wireless sensor system for building environment applications

Proceedings of the 2009 1st International Conference on Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace and Electronic Systems Technology, Wireless VITAE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 36-41

  Wang, W S ^a   O'Donnell, T ^a   Ribetto, L ^b   O'Flynn, B ^a   Hayes, M ^a   O'Mathuna, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Energy storage; Light energy harvesting; MPPT; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY SOURCE; INDOOR LIGHT; LIGHT ENERGY HARVESTING; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MPPT; SOLAR PANELS; TYNDALL; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM;

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; HARVESTING; INFORMATION THEORY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PUMPS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR ENERGY; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70350784171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIRELESSVITAE.2009.5172418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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