Review of Power Conversion and Energy Management for Low-Power, Low-Voltage Energy Harvesting Powered Wireless Sensors

Newell, D. J.; Duffy, Maeve

doi:10.1109/tpel.2019.2894465

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“…DC-to-DC converters also often have the function of boost converters (multipliers). The power management circuity that often integrates a low-loss (i.e., with a voltage drop of barely 0.7 V) full-wave bridge rectifier for the conversion of AC to DC voltage (for EH devices producing AC output voltage), the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) unit (setting the required input voltage value, thus allowing to extract the maximum available energy that an EH generator can produce), and the ’cold start’ circuitry (used, rarely, to initialise the operation of the EH device) [ 2 , 219 , 220 ]. Several commercially available solutions of this type are available as off-the-shelf products [ 32 ].…”

Section: Power Management Electronics and Energy Storage Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Examples of circuitry that can be used in specific applications are also state-of-charge (SoC) monitoring devices that are used to control the load based on the available energy so that it is operated only when the harvester generates appropriate energy levels. An energy storage device in the form of a polarized capacitor, a super-capacitor, a battery or a hybrid solution [ 219 ]. …”

Section: Power Management Electronics and Energy Storage Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Energy Harvesting Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring of Airplane Components—A Review

Zelenika

Hadaš

Bader

et al. 2020

Sensors

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With the aim of increasing the efficiency of maintenance and fuel usage in airplanes, structural health monitoring (SHM) of critical composite structures is increasingly expected and required. The optimized usage of this concept is subject of intensive work in the framework of the EU COST Action CA18203 “Optimising Design for Inspection” (ODIN). In this context, a thorough review of a broad range of energy harvesting (EH) technologies to be potentially used as power sources for the acoustic emission and guided wave propagation sensors of the considered SHM systems, as well as for the respective data elaboration and wireless communication modules, is provided in this work. EH devices based on the usage of kinetic energy, thermal gradients, solar radiation, airflow, and other viable energy sources, proposed so far in the literature, are thus described with a critical review of the respective specific power levels, of their potential placement on airplanes, as well as the consequently necessary power management architectures. The guidelines provided for the selection of the most appropriate EH and power management technologies create the preconditions to develop a new class of autonomous sensor nodes for the in-process, non-destructive SHM of airplane components.

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Section: Power Management Electronics and Energy Storage Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Power Management Electronics and Energy Storage Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Harvesting Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring of Airplane Components—A Review

Zelenika

Hadaš

Bader

et al. 2020

Sensors

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“…Substituting (17), (19), (23) into (12), the probability of event δ is reprensented as (24), as shown at the bottom of this page.…”

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“…For example, the nodes harvest more solar energy where the sun shines, but less energy indoors or at night or on rainy days. Considering the impacts of energy collection, different energy storage and management schemes were proposed to provide reliable and stable energy supply for sensor nodes [17].…”

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Energy Collaboration for Non-Homogeneous Energy Harvesting in Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks

Liu

2020

IEEE Access

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In wireless sensor networks, energy harvesting is developed as an effective way to solve energy drain problem of nodes which powered by battery, just like that cooperative communication is used to improve transmission reliability. In some energy harvesting networks, the nodes' energy harvested from ambient environment is disequilibrium. For example, nodes exposed to sunlight collect more solar energy than those shaded. Impoverished energy will reduce transmission reliability because some nodes have not enough energy to send data or are forced to decrease transmission power to save energy. In this paper, energy collaboration is taken into consideration for non-homogeneous energy harvesting in cooperative wireless sensor networks, where all sensor nodes harvest solar energy and then store it in rechargeable battery. And an energy cooperative protocol is proposed for energy inhomogeneity to enhance transmission reliability among relay nodes through radio frequency, where the nodes with abundant energy share excess power to other nodes which undertake the forwarding task but store insufficient energy. By exploiting ACK/NACK frame fed back from the destination node and No Enough Energy (NEE) frame advertised by the forwarding relays in the active set, each candidate node forms its energy supply set when all of them are lack of energy for transmitting. For the relay selection, three strategies are presented for choosing the pair of the best forwarding relay and the optimal energy supply relay, which are respectively named Best Channel Strategy, Nearest Distance Strategy and Minimum Energy Sharing Strategy. Furthermore, the outage probability of cooperative transmission under energy collaboration is derived. Simulation results show that energy collaboration for cooperative wireless sensor networks can significantly reduce the outage probability of the system and improve transmission reliability of the network.

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“…In addition to the papers discussed in previous sections, several reviewed papers that address different aspects of energy management are listed in the following. Reference [228] coordinates the energy sharing to achieve maximum profit and [229] improves the life cycle of batteries. The objectives of maximizing MG and consumer profits individually is discussed in [230], maintaining the privacy concern for both generators and consumers is proposed in [208], and maximizing the total revenue for the PV/battery system is presented in [231].…”

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Energy Management in Power Distribution Systems: Review, Classification, Limitations and Challenges

Alam

Arefifar

2019

IEEE Access

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Energy management in distribution systems has gained attention in recent years. Coordination of electricity generation and consumption is crucial to save energy, reduce energy prices and achieve global emission targets. Due to the importance of the subject, this paper provides a literature review on recent research on energy management systems and classifies the works based on several factors including energy management goals, the approaches taken for performing energy management and solution algorithms. Furthermore, the paper reviews some of the most proficient techniques and methodologies adopted or developed to address energy management problem and provides a table to compare such techniques. The current challenges and limitations of energy management systems are explained and some future research directions have been provided at the end of the paper.

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Review of Power Conversion and Energy Management for Low-Power, Low-Voltage Energy Harvesting Powered Wireless Sensors

Cited by 138 publications

References 76 publications

Energy Harvesting Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring of Airplane Components—A Review

Energy Harvesting Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring of Airplane Components—A Review

Energy Collaboration for Non-Homogeneous Energy Harvesting in Cooperative Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy Management in Power Distribution Systems: Review, Classification, Limitations and Challenges

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