Vibration energy harvesting for wireless underground sensor networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1543-1548

  Kahrobaee, Salman ^a   Vuran, Mehmet C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION;

EXTENDED LIFETIME; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS; SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS; SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; VIBRATION SOURCES; WIRELESS UNDERGROUND SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84891352855     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2013.6654733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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