Design of energy harvesting technology: Feasibility for low-power wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 463-472

  Weaver, Jason M ^a   Wood, Kristin L ^a   Crawford, Richard H ^a   Jensen, Dan ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridges; Energy density; Energy harvesting; Energy scavenging; Feasibility study; Highways; Power density; Remote monitoring; Renewable energy; Solar; Transportation; Vibration; Wind; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DENSITY; ENERGY SCAVENGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HIGHWAYS; POWER DENSITIES; REMOTE MONITORING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR; WIRELESS SENSOR;

AVAILABILITY; DESIGN; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; FOSSIL FUELS; LIFE CYCLE; MANUFACTURE; POWER TRANSMISSION; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SOLAR ENERGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 80055020900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2010-28858     Document Type: Conference Paper

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