Energy harvesting and wireless transfer in sensor network applications: Concepts and experiences

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Bhatti, Naveed Anwar ^a   Alizai, Muhammad Hamad ^b   Syed, Affan A ^c   Mottola, Luca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^c NONE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Wireless energy transfer

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ENERGY TRANSFER; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY CONSTRAINT; FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE; SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS; WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS); WIRELESS TRANSFER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84986550471     PISSN: 15504859     EISSN: 15504867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2915918     Document Type: Article

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