Characterisation of a knee-joint energy harvester powering a wireless communication sensing node

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Kuang, Yang ^a   Zhu, Meiling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

human motion; piezoelectric energy harvester; wearable; wireless sensor node

Indexed keywords

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; CAPACITORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POWER MANAGEMENT; POWER MANAGEMENT (TELECOMMUNICATION); RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; SENSOR NODES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; FREQUENCY UP CONVERSION; HUMAN MOTIONS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS; THREE AXIS ACCELEROMETERS; WEARABLE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

EID: 84968677725     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/25/5/055013     Document Type: Article

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