As the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology has great advancement, small and smart WSN systems now can be used for more complicated and challenging applications …
Vibration energy harvesting is an attractive technique for potential powering of wireless sensors and low power devices. While the technique can be employed to harvest energy …
“Everything will become a sensor”; this is a global trend to increase the amount of information collected from equipment, buildings, environments… enabling us to interact with …
EE Aktakka, K Najafi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 0.25 cm 3 autonomous energy harvesting micro-platform is realized to efficiently scavenge, rectify and store ambient vibration energy with batteryless cold start-up and zero …
Vibration energy harvesting is being pursued as a means to power wireless sensors and ultra-low power autonomous devices. From a design standpoint, matching the electrical …
The lifespan and stability of power supply are the most critical issues for implantable biomedical devices (IMDs). Extracting energy from the ambient sources or human body …
S Boisseau, G Despesse, T Ricart… - Smart materials and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Integration of structures and functions has permitted the electricity consumption of sensors, actuators and electronic devices to be reduced. Therefore, it is now possible to imagine low …
T Galchev, H Kim, K Najafi - Journal of Microelectromechanical …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new inertial power generator for scavenging low-frequency nonperiodic vibrations called the Parametric Frequency-Increased Generator (PFIG). The …
TV Galchev, J McCullagh, RL Peterson… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper discusses the development and testing of a renewable energy source for powering wireless sensors used to monitor the structural health of bridges. Traditional power …