Novel batteryless wireless sensor for traffic-flow measurement

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3249-3260

  Vijayaraghavan, Krishna ^a   Rajamani, Rajesh ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Batteryless; energy harvesting; traffic sensor; wireless

Indexed keywords

BATTERY-LESS; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; FIXED THRESHOLD; HARVESTED ENERGY; INDUCTIVE LOOPS; LOW COSTS; LOW POWER; POWER SOURCES; POWER-LOSSES; SWITCHED INDUCTORS; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAFFIC FLOW RATES; TRAFFIC SENSORS; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; VOLTAGE SWITCHING; WIRELESS; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; HARVESTING; INDUCTIVE SENSORS; SENSORS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77956736683     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2050013     Document Type: Article

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