Efficient, long-term logging of rich data sensors using transient sensor nodes

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Gomez, Andres ^a   Sigrist, Lukas ^a   Schalch, Thomas ^a   Benini, Luca ^b   Thiele, Lothar ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Energy harvesting; Low power design

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY HARVESTING; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR ENERGY;

ENERGY EFFICIENT; LOW-POWER DESIGN; NON-VOLATILE MEMORY; OPERATING POINTS; OPTIMAL POWER POINTS; STORAGE ELEMENTS; SUSTAINED SYSTEMS; TRANSIENT SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85033241720     PISSN: 15399087     EISSN: 15583465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/3047499     Document Type: Article

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