RF energy harvesting for autonomous wireless sensor networks

Author

Ali, Mohamed ; Albasha, L. ; Qaddoumi, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., American Univ. of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 March 2013

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

81

Abstract

The system specifications of RF energy harvesting are outlined, indicating the general guideline of low power circuit and system design as well as the frequency set to be used in the system. Four frequency bands representing five wireless standards were chosen namely, GSM, DTV, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and road tolling system. A harvesting system has been designed and simulated. A microstrip line antenna, RF-DC rectifier circuit and a voltage doubler circuit were designed. The simulations show promising preliminary results for the RF energy harvesting system compared to similar work in literature.

Keywords

Bluetooth; cellular radio; digital television; energy harvesting; low-power electronics; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; rectifiers; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; Bluetooth; DTV; GSM; RF energy harvesting system; RF-DC rectifier circuit design; Wi-Fi; autonomous wireless sensor network; frequency band; frequency set; low power circuit; microstrip line antenna; road tolling system; system design; system specification; voltage doubler circuit design; wireless standard; CMOS integrated circuits; GSM; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Integrated circuit modeling; Radio frequency; Rectifiers; Low power design; RF Energy Harvesting; RF-DC rectifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS), 2013 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Abu Dhabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6039-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-6038-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DTIS.2013.6527782

Filename

6527782