An autonomous power supply system supporting low-power wireless sensors

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4272-4280

  Dallago, Enrico ^a   Danioni, Alberto ^b   Marchesi, Marco ^a   Venchi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic transducer; energy harvesting; wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

AC/DC CONVERTERS; ANALOG DEVICES; AUTONOMOUS POWER-SUPPLY SYSTEMS; BODY MOVEMENTS; DIGITAL OUTPUT; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSDUCER; ELECTRONIC INTERFACE; GENERATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER TRANSCEIVER; MECHANICAL RESONANCE FREQUENCY; POWER SUPPLY; STORAGE CAPACITOR; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; TEXAS INSTRUMENTS; VOLTAGE PULSE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY HARVESTING; SENSORS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84862021150     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2190525     Document Type: Article

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