Energy harvesting sources, storage devices and system topologies for environmental wireless sensor networks: A review

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2018, Pages

  Prauzek, Michal ^a   Konecny, Jaromir ^a   Borova, Monika ^a   Janosova, Karolina ^a   Hlavica, Jakub ^a   Musilek, Petr ^b  

^a VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Batteries; Energy harvesting; Energy storage; Environmental monitoring; IoT; Maintenance free nodes; Network topology; Sensor network; Solar power; Supercapacitor; Thermal power; Wind power

Indexed keywords

ENERGY STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET OF THINGS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SUPERCAPACITOR; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER;

ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); MAINTENANCE FREE; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL POWER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 85050797292     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s18082446     Document Type: Article

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