A Self-Powering Wireless Environment Monitoring System Using Soil Energy

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3751-3758

  Lin, Fu To ^a   Kuo, Yu Chun ^b   Hsieh, Jen Chien ^b   Tsai, Hsi Yuan ^b   Liao, Yu Te ^a   Lee, Huang Chen ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

humidity sensor; integrated circuit; renewable energy; Soil energy; temperature sensor; wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE SENSORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODES; HUMIDITY SENSORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; SOILS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY TRANSMITTERS; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TOTAL POWER CONSUMPTION; WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS SENSOR;

MONITORING;

EID: 84929440812     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2398845     Document Type: Article

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