Energy-efficient characterization of solar panel-supercapacitors systems for energy-harvesting aware wireless sensor nodes

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2275-2279

  Da Cunha, Adriano B ^a   Da Silva Jr , Diógenes C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SUPERCAPACITOR;

BACK-UP BATTERIES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY AWARENESS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; NEW ENERGIES; QOS METRICS; SOLAR PANELS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 77952795967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2009.5450038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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