Thermal energy harvesting for WSNs

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3045-3052

  Lu, Xin ^a   Yang, Shuang Hua ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DC C converter; Energy havesing; Power mangement; Thermal energy harvestign system; Thermoelectric; Wireless sensor network; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

DC-C CONVERTER; ENERGY HAVESING; POWER MANGEMENT; THERMOELECTRIC; WIRELESS SENSOR; ZIG-BEE;

CYBERNETICS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; HARVESTING; POWER ELECTRONICS; RADIATORS; SENSOR NETWORKS; THERMAL ENERGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78751564957     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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