Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Technology, Theory, And Application - Introducing Energy Harvesting To Sensor Networks [Kõva köide]

Computer scientists and electrical engineers review current research into designing wireless sensor networks that are recharged by energy harvesting methods in order to perform unattended for long periods. Their topics include rechargeable sensor networks with magnetic resonance coupling, cross-layer resource allocation in energy-harvesting sensor networks, the information capacity of an additive white Gaussian noise channel powered by an energy-harvesting source, topology control for wireless sensor networks and ad hoc networks, marine sediment energy harvesting for sustainable underwater sensor networks, and energy-harvesting methods for medical devices. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Harvesting energy from ambient energy resources to power electronic devices has been recognized as a promising solution to address the issue of powering the ever-growing number of mobile devices around us. The key technologies in the rapid growth of the energy harvesting field focus on developing solutions to capture ambient energy surrounding the mobile devices and to convert it into usable electrical energy to recharge them. Achieving sustainable network lifetime via battery-aware design brings forth a new frontier for energy optimization techniques, which resulted in the developments of low-power hardware design at the early stage, while has now evolved into power-aware design and even battery-aware design. This book covers technologies of rechargeable sensor networks protocol behinds scavenging energy from sources of solar, vibration, temperature variations, wind, biochemical energy, to passive human power, as a means and replacement for the batteries on mobile and sensor devices.