DocumentCode :
623635
Title :
Prototyping energy harvesting active networked tags (EnHANTs)
Author :
Gorlatova, Maria ; Margolies, Robert ; Sarik, John ; Stanje, Gerald ; Jianxun Zhu ; Vigraham, Baradwaj ; Szczodrak, M. ; Carloni, Luca ; Kinget, Peter ; Kymissis, Ioannis ; Zussman, Gil
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
fYear :
2013
fDate :
14-19 April 2013
Firstpage :
585
Lastpage :
589
Abstract :
This paper focuses on a new type of wireless devices in the domain between RFIDs and sensor networks - Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs). Future EnHANTs will be small, flexible, and self-powered devices that can be attached to objects that are traditionally not networked (e.g., books, toys, clothing), thereby providing the infrastructure for novel tracking applications. We present the design considerations for the EnHANT prototypes, developed over the past 3 years. The prototypes harvest indoor light energy using custom organic solar cells, communicate and form multihop networks using ultralow-power Ultra-Wideband Impulse Radio (UWB-IR) transceivers, and adapt their communications and networking patterns to the energy harvesting and battery states. We also describe a small scale EnHANTs testbed that uniquely allows evaluating different algorithms with trace-based light energy inputs.
Keywords :
energy harvesting; radiofrequency identification; solar cells; telecommunication power supplies; wireless sensor networks; EnHANT; RFID; battery state; energy harvesting active networked tags; indoor light energy; light energy input; multihop network; organic solar cell; tracking application; ultralow power impulse radio transceiver; ultrawideband impulse radio transceiver; wireless device; wireless sensor network; Energy harvesting; Multiaccess communication; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Prototypes; Transceivers; Energy adaptive networking; cross-layer; energy harvesting; organic solar cells; ultra-low-power communications; ultrawideband (UWB);
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM, 2013 Proceedings IEEE
Conference_Location :
Turin
ISSN :
0743-166X
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5944-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6566840
Filename :
6566840
Link To Document :
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