Energy replenishment using renewable and traditional energy resources for sustainable wireless sensor networks: A review

Akhtar, Fayaz; Rehmani, Mubashir Husain

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.02.021

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“…Akhtar and Rehmani [30] presented energy-harvesting techniques to replenish the energy of WSNs, including WPT. The inductive coupling, magnetic resonant coupling, radio frequency, laser, and acoustic WPT techniques were emphasized with their applications, challenges, limitations, advantages and disadvantages, transfer efficiency, and future research trends.…”

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Opportunities and Challenges for Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer: A Review

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Abstract:Traditional power supply cords have become less important because they prevent large-scale utilization and mobility. In addition, the use of batteries as a substitute for power cords is not an optimal solution because batteries have a short lifetime, thereby increasing the cost, weight, and ecological footprint of the hardware implementation. Their recharging or replacement is impractical and incurs operational costs. Recent progress has allowed electromagnetic wave energy to be transferred from power sources (i.e., transmitters) to destinations (i.e., receivers) wirelessly, the so-called wireless power transfer (WPT) technique. New developments in WPT technique motivate new avenues of research in different applications. Recently, WPT has been used in mobile phones, electric vehicles, medical implants, wireless sensor network, unmanned aerial vehicles, and so on. This review highlights up-to-date studies that are specific to near-field WPT, which include the classification, comparison, and potential applications of these techniques in the real world. In addition, limitations and challenges of these techniques are highlighted at the end of the article.

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Opportunities and Challenges for Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer: A Review

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“…The data in Table 1 was collected from references [18,19]. In comparison with thermal or kinetic energy, electromagnetic energy is not limited by space or time.…”

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RF power harvesting: a review on designing methodologies and applications

Tran

Cha

Park

2017

Micro and Nano Syst Lett

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Wireless power transmission was conceptualized nearly a century ago. Certain achievements made to date have made power harvesting a reality, capable of providing alternative sources of energy. This review provides a summ ary of radio frequency (RF) power harvesting technologies in order to serve as a guide for the design of RF energy harvesting units. Since energy harvesting circuits are designed to operate with relatively small voltages and currents, they rely on state-of-the-art electrical technology for obtaining high efficiency. Thus, comprehensive analysis and discussions of various designs and their tradeoffs are included. Finally, recent applications of RF power harvesting are outlined.

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“…Researchers make great efforts to find out renewable energy resources from the environment for WSN usage, such as solar power, wind, vibration, heat, and RF [9]. How to collect and store energy effectively from the environment has been taken more and more seriously by researchers.…”

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“…The state-of-the-art energy-storage techniques for energy-harvesting systems in sustainable wireless sensor nodes can be classified into two technologies, i.e., supercapacitors and rechargeable batteries [9]. These two categories have their own advantages and disadvantages, involving energy-storage density, lifetime, discharging, leakage, size and so on [10].…”

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“…Therefore, it must be avoided that the battery always be in high SOC to extend battery lifetime, and approaches, one example of which is recharging the battery until its voltage drops below a specific level, should be taken [16]. The charging managements are usually employed by microcontrollers for the flexibility of software designing and implementation [9,17], but researchers [18] have proven that battery-charging controlled by software may have some problems in which charging logic could not work, and that the battery could not be charged under sufficient sunlight. In our system, the charging management is implemented by hardware instead of the codes running within the microcontroller for consideration of reliability.…”

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An intelligent solar energy-harvesting system for wireless sensor networks

Yin

Shi

2015

J Wireless Com Network

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An intelligent solar energy-harvesting system for supplying a long term and stable power is proposed. The system is comprised of a solar panel, a lithium battery, and a control circuit. Hardware, instead of software, is used for charge management of the lithium battery, which improves the reliability and stability of the system. It prefers to use the solar energy whenever the sunshine is sufficient, and the lithium battery is a complementary power supply for conditions, such as overcast, rain, and night. The system adapts a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit to take full advantage of solar energy, and it ensures the lithium battery an extremely long life with an appropriate charging method, which shortens the frequency of the battery charge-discharge cycle. This system can be implemented with small power equipment which is especially suitable for outdoor-based wireless sensor nodes in the Internet of Things (IOT).

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Energy replenishment using renewable and traditional energy resources for sustainable wireless sensor networks: A review

Cited by 268 publications

References 91 publications

Opportunities and Challenges for Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer: A Review

Opportunities and Challenges for Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer: A Review

RF power harvesting: a review on designing methodologies and applications

An intelligent solar energy-harvesting system for wireless sensor networks

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