Energy neutral wireless sensing for server farms monitoring

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 324-334

  Rossi, Maurizio ^a   Rizzon, Luca ^a   Fait, Matteo ^a   Passerone, Roberto ^a   Brunelli, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embedded systems; energy neutral systems; environmental monitoring; thermoelectric harvesting

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEUTRAL SYSTEMS; SERVER FARMS; WIRELESS SENSING;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84907199309     PISSN: 21563357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2014.2337171     Document Type: Article

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