UR-SolarCap: An Open Source Intelligent Auto-Wakeup Solar Energy Harvesting System for Supercapacitor-Based Energy Buffering

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 542-557

  Hassanalieragh, Moeen ^a   Soyata, Tolga ^a   Nadeau, Andrew ^a   Sharma, Gaurav ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; AVAILABILITY; CAPACITORS; DESIGN; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; FIRMWARE; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CHARGE-DISCHARGE CYCLE; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERIES; EMBEDDED SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; POWER INFRASTRUCTURES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS (PCB); SUSTAINED OPERATIONS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84979849258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2519845     Document Type: Article

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