Towards enabling uninterrupted long-term operation of solar energy harvesting embedded systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8354 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 66-83

  Buchli, Bernhard ^a   Sutton, Felix ^a   Beutel, Jan ^a   Thiele, Lothar ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; experimentation; modeling; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894481865     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04651-8_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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