Simulation and hardware implementation of solar energy harvester for wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE Conference on System, Process and Control, ICSPC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 84-89

  Hong, Timothy Ngi Ing ^a   Drieberg, Micheal ^a   Singh, Balbir Singh Mahinder ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Battery charging; Energy harvesting; Solar charge controller; Solar energy; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

CHARGING (BATTERIES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; HARDWARE; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR ENERGY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CONTINUOUS OPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; LIMITED ENERGIES; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; SECURITY MONITORING; SOLAR CHARGE CONTROLLER; SOLAR ELECTRICITY;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84949924938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPC.2014.7086235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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