Tragedy of the coulombs: Federating energy storage for tiny, intermittently-powered sensors

SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 5-16

  Hester, Josiah ^a   Sitanayah, Lanny ^a   Sorber, Jacob ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor; Embedded system; Energy harvesting; Federated energy; Task coupling

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY STORAGE;

CENTRALIZED APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FEDERATED ENERGY; REFERENCE DESIGNS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TASK-SCHEDULING; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; VOLTAGE REQUIREMENT;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84962800245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2809695.2809707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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