Operating system design challenges for wireless embedded systems powered by energy harvesters

Author

Strba, Attila

Author_Institution

EnOcean GmbH, Oberhaching

fYear

2009

fDate

30-31 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

40

Abstract

Designing and implementing operating system for wireless embedded systems powered by energy harvesters is a challenging task. Conventional operating systems require lot of system resources thus they are not applicable to these highly energy constrained devices. This paper discusses the requirements, design challenges, architecture of an operating system for energy autarkic wireless embedded systems. The paper is divided in two parts. First part of the paper gives an introduction to wireless embedded systems powered by energy harvester. Two application scenarios are presented here. The second part of the paper discusses the problematic of the operating system design for these devices.

Keywords

embedded systems; operating systems (computers); software architecture; energy harvesters; operating system design; wireless embedded systems; Ambient intelligence; Batteries; Embedded system; Heating; Intelligent sensors; Microcontrollers; Operating systems; Radio transmitters; Temperature; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, 2009. SAMI 2009. 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Herl´any

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3801-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3802-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAMI.2009.4956634

Filename

4956634