Thermoelectric energy harvesting for building energy management wireless sensor networks

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Wensi ^a   Cionca, Victor ^a   Wang, Ningning ^a   Hayes, Mike ^a   O'Flynn, Brendan ^a   O'Mathuna, Cian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENTS; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MEASUREMENT TIME INTERVALS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84880222619     PISSN: 15501329     EISSN: 15501477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/232438     Document Type: Article

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