Thermal energy harvesting for wireless sensor nodes with case studies

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 64 LNEE, Issue , 2010, Pages 221-242

  Knight, C ^a   Davidson, J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAND-SIDE; HUMAN BODIES; POWER OUT PUT; POWER REQUIREMENT; POWER SOURCES; SEEBECK; SOURCE OF ENERGY; THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; VEHICLE EXHAUSTS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ENERGY CONVERSION; HARVESTING; MOBILE DEVICES; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SOLAR ENERGY; TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOCOUPLES; WASTE HEAT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78651559529     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12707-6_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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