Medium access control for thermal energy harvesting in advanced metering infrastructures

IEEE EuroCon 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 291-299

  Vithanage, Madava D ^a,b   Fafoutis, Xenofon ^a   Andersen, Claus Bo ^b   Dragoni, Nicola ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Brunata A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Advanced metering infrastructure; Distributed embedded systems; Medium access control; Thermal energy harvesting; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BATTERY POWERED DEVICES; DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED SYSTEM; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; HEAT COST ALLOCATORS; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; LOW SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL(MAC); OPERATING LIFETIME;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY HARVESTING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; RADIATORS; THERMAL ENERGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84888590379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUROCON.2013.6624999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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