A novel real-time capacitance estimation methodology for battery-less wireless sensor systems

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1647-1657

  Kim, Hwa Soo ^a   Sivaramakrishnan, Shyam ^a   Sezen, A Serdar ^a   Rajamani, Rajesh ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery less wireless sensor; capacitance sensing; inductive coupling; mutual inductance

Indexed keywords

BATTERY-LESS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CAPACITANCE CHANGE; CAPACITANCE ESTIMATION; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; FIRST ORDER; FLUID PRESSURES; FREQUENCY SWEEP; INDUCTIVE COUPLINGS; MULTI FREQUENCY; MUTUAL INDUCTANCE; NOVEL METHODS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; RAPID CHANGES; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RF SIGNAL; SENSOR CAPACITANCE; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM;

CALIBRATION; CAPACITANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDUCTANCE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

INDUCTIVE SENSORS;

EID: 77955450168     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2046407     Document Type: Article

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