An inertial and environmental wireless platform with advanced energy harvesting capabilities

Author

Galizzi, M. ; Comotti, D. ; Gasparini, A. ; Nodari, B. ; Ramorini, S. ; Re, V. ; Vitali, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Univ. of Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

23-26 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This work presents neMEMSi-TEG, an ultra-low power MEMS based inertial and magnetic platform with embedded processing and wireless communication capabilities. The platform embeds an advanced energy management IC that allows an extremely high efficiency energy harvesting suitable for low-power and miniaturized Thermoelectric Generators. This paper aims to provide a description of the architecture of the system, the embedded orientation estimation algorithm and the performance in terms of power consumption and orientation accuracy.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; energy harvesting; energy management systems; environmental factors; microsensors; power consumption; silicon; thermoelectric conversion; wireless sensor networks; Si; advanced energy management IC; embedded orientation estimation algorithm; embedded processing; energy harvesting; environmental wireless platform; inertial wireless platform; neMEMSi-TEG; power consumption; thermoelectric generator; ultralow power MEMS based inertial platform; ultralow power MEMS based magnetic platform; wireless communication; Accuracy; Bluetooth; Energy harvesting; Estimation; Power demand; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; AHRS; Energy Harvesting; Environmental Sensor; IMU; MEMS; Thermoelectric Generator; Wireless;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Inertial Sensors and Systems (ISISS), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hapuna Beach, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISISS.2015.7102374

Filename

7102374