Self-powered WSN for distributed data center monitoring

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Brunelli, Davide ^a   Passerone, Roberto ^a   Rizzon, Luca ^a   Rossi, Maurizio ^a   Sartori, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Batteryless WSN; Energy harvesting; TEGs

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; MONITORING; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

BATTERY-LESS; DISTRIBUTED DATA; EFFICIENT POWER MANAGEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POWER CONDITIONING; TEGS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84953283237     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16010057     Document Type: Article

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