Analysis of an eco-friendly sensor node powered by unconventional energy sources

Author

Balan, Doru ; Chirap, Aurel

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci. Fac., Stefan cel Mare Univ. of Suceava, Suceava, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

11-13 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In the recent years there is a prodigious research interest in harvesting energy for powering various equipment. With the explosive development of the IoT - Internet of Things concept or newer IoE - Internet of Everything, independent power supply issue becomes more and more challenging. The article describes the operation of a sensor node powered by harvesting energy from unconventional energy sources using a modern graphical diagrams platform. We chose to study an indoor harvesting system based on natural and fluorescent light source because this type of energy is the most commonly used, provides the highest density and is predictable. Since the sensor node ensures its energy independence based on light energy only, it will be referred further as the Eco-node.

Keywords

Internet of Things; energy harvesting; light sources; power supply quality; Internet of Everything; Internet of Things; IoE; IoT; eco-friendly sensor node; energy harvesting; explosive development; fluorescent light source; graphical diagrams platform; independent power supply; indoor harvesting system; natural light source; unconventional energy sources; Energy harvesting; Instruments; Internet; Robot sensing systems; Temperature sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; autonomous sensors node; eco-node; energy harvesting; unconevtional energy; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RoEduNet Conference 13th Edition: Networking in Education and Research Joint Event RENAM 8th Conference, 2014

Conference_Location

Chisinau

ISSN

2068-1038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6860-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RoEduNet-RENAM.2014.6955325

Filename

6955325