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Performance Testing of a Low Power Consumption Wireless Sensor Communication System Integrated with an Energy Harvesting Power Source

Authors:
Vlad Marsic
Alessandro Giuliano
Michele Pozzi
Meiling Zhu
Stewart Williams

Keywords: vibration scavenging; energy harvesting; low power consumption; wireless sensor communication system;

Abstract:
This paper presents the performance testing results of a wireless sensor communication system with low power consumption integrated with a vibration energy harvesting power source. The experiments focus on the system’s capability to perform continuous monitoring and to wirelessly transmit the data acquired from the sensors to a user base station, completely battery-free. Energy harvesting technologies together with system design optimisation for power consumption minimisation ensure the system’s energy autonomous capability demonstrated in this paper by presenting the promising testing results achieved following its integration with Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Body Area Network (BAN) applications.

Pages: 112 to 118

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: August 19, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3514

ISBN: 978-1-61208-208-0

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 19, 2012 to August 24, 2012