SIVEH: Numerical computing simulation of wireless energy-harvesting sensor nodes

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 11750-11771

  Sanchez, Antonio ^a   Blanc, Sara ^a   Climent, Salvador ^a   Yuste, Pedro ^a   Ors, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy and resource management; Energy harvesting; Energy neutral operation; Low power hardware design; Numerical computing; Simulation model; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARDWARE; SUN; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENERGY NEUTRAL OPERATION; LOWPOWER HARDWARE; NUMERICAL COMPUTING; SIMULATION MODEL;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84884268741     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130911750     Document Type: Article

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