Ekho: Realistic and repeatable experimentation for tiny energy-harvesting sensors

SenSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-15

  Hester, Josiah ^a   Scott, Timothy ^a   Sorber, Jacob ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emulation; Energy harvesting; I V curves; RFID

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FREE ENERGY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; EMULATION; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; ENERGY HARVESTING SENSORS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENERGY; HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS; I - V CURVE; RF ENERGY HARVESTING;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84914167299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2668332.2668336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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