Energy harvesting of radio frequency and vibration energy to enable wireless sensor monitoring of civil infrastructure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7983, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Galchev, Tzeno ^a   McCullagh, James ^a   Peterson, Rebecca L ^a   Najafi, Khalil ^a   Mortazawi, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

AM Band Harvesting; Bridge Vibrations; Frequency Up Conversion; Parametric Generator; PFIG; RF Energy Scavenging; RF Harvesting; Vibration Harvesting

Indexed keywords

AM BAND HARVESTING; BRIDGE VIBRATIONS; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; PARAMETRIC GENERATOR; PFIG; RF ENERGY SCAVENGING; RF HARVESTING; VIBRATION HARVESTING;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANTENNAS; BRIDGE CABLES; CHARACTERIZATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; HARVESTING; NETWORK SECURITY; RADIO STATIONS; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SCAVENGING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 79956200864     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.880174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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