With the growth of the number of IoT devices, the need for changing batteries is becoming
cumbersome and has a significant environmental impact. Therefore, batteryless and …

Deploying low maintenance and long-life systems is an important requirement of emerging
commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Such systems can be envisioned in which the …

With the emerging deployment of Internet of Things devices, the industry is moving toward
batteryless, maintenance-free, and sustainable solutions. Energy harvesting from ambient …

As billions of sensors and smart meters connect to the Internet of Things (IoT), current
wireless technologies are taking decisive steps to ensure their sustainable operation. One …

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is emerging as an Internet of Things (IoT) technology that
effectively connects small devices and sensors. It can enable many smart building use cases …

Battery-powered beacon devices introduce high maintenance costs due to the finite
operation time dictated by the fixed capacity of their batteries. To tackle this problem we …

Indoor beacon system is a cornerstone of internet of things. Until now, most of the research
effort has focused on achieving various applications based on beacon communication …

This thesis explores new wireless power and backscatter communication architectures for
ultra-low-power wireless sensors and other devices such as wearables. We first present …

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has shown higher energy efficiency and robustness than other
well known Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) protocols, making it a strong candidate for …

We propose a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon that operates entirely on harvested
energy from dual ISM-band RF sources with aid from photovoltaics. Indoor RF power can be …