Vibration energy harvesting for disaster asset monitoring using active RFID Tags

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1620-1628

  Hande, Abhiman ^a   Bridgelall, Raj ^b   Zoghi, Ben ^c  

^a Texas Micropower Inc   (United States)

^b Axcess International Inc   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active radio frequency identification (RFID); asset monitoring; microwireless; remote sensors; vibration energy harvesting

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); REMOTE SENSING; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONS; ASSET MONITORING; MICROWIRELESS; REMOTE SENSORS; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77956059959     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2050670     Document Type: Article

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