DoubleDip: Leveraging thermoelectric harvesting for low power monitoring of sporadic water use

SenSys 2012 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 225-238

  Martin, Paul ^a   Charbiwala, Zainul ^a   Srivastava, Mani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Low power; Sustainability; Thermoelectric; Water monitoring

Indexed keywords

COLD WATERS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; ELECTRICAL WIRING; ENERGY RESERVES; HEAT GRADIENT; HOT WATER; IN-PIPE; LOW POWER; LOW POWER STATE; METAL PIPES; NON-INTRUSIVE; THERMOELECTRIC; TRANSMITTING DATA; WATER FLOW SENSORS; WATER FLOWS; WATER MONITORING; WATER USE;

ENERGY HARVESTING; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; MONITORING; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMAL GRADIENTS; WAKES; WATER PIPELINES; WATER SUPPLY;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873449837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2426656.2426679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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