Smart Integrated Circuit and System Design for Renewable Energy Harvesters

Author

Kuo, Yeong-Chau ; Tung, Wei-Hsiang ; Liu, Li-Jen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Kaohsiung First Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan. 2013

Firstpage

401

Lastpage

406

Abstract

In this paper, a novel design and management tool is developed with visual basic software. The proposed tool is employed to design an integrated circuit (IC) and system for renewable energy applications, and the tool can also be used to assess the system´s operating conditions in order to make maintenance decisions. In addition, the renewable energy harvesting system´s information will be posted on an online system so that users can thus access it at any time and from anywhere. Finally, computer simulated and experimental results demonstrate the excellent performance of the proposed IC and system.

Keywords

Visual BASIC; electronic engineering computing; energy harvesting; integrated circuit design; renewable energy sources; online system; renewable energy harvesters; smart integrated circuit design; smart system design; visual basic software; Batteries; Microcontrollers; Renewable energy resources; Transistors; Voltage control; Wind turbines; Battery charger; integrated circuit (IC) and system; renewable energy harvester;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photovoltaics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2156-3381

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2213582

Filename

6301671