Development of a batteryless sensor transmitter

Author

Mikeka, Chomora ; Arai, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

10-14 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

71

Abstract

This paper presents a batteryless transmitter for wireless sensor systems. Unlike the conventional battery powered sensor transmitters, our proposed transmitter is powered from a cellular energy-harvesting circuit, a microwave energy transmission technique that has capacity to harvest 3.2 V in 5.5 hours at 0 dBm of incident cellular signals (2 GHz). The transmitter is built around a 2.4 GHz nRF24L01+ programmable radio chip, controlled by a PIC16F877A MCU via a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). A 5 min successful locked carrier transmit test was carried out at ISM band channels (2.402, 2.440, and 2.850 GHz). The cellular energy-harvesting circuit described in this work is rated 36.16 mW max, given 11.3 mA maximum transmit drain current.

Keywords

cellular radio; energy harvesting; radio transmitters; wireless sensor networks; PIC16F877A MCU; batteryless sensor transmitter; cellular energy-harvesting circuit; current 11.3 mA; frequency 2 GHz; frequency 2.402 GHz; frequency 2.440 GHz; frequency 2.850 GHz; microwave energy transmission technique; nRF24L01+ programmable radio chip; power 36.16 mW; powered sensor transmitters; serial peripheral interface; time 5 min; time 5.5 hour; voltage 3.2 V; wireless sensor systems; Batteries; Capacitive sensors; Circuit testing; Microwave circuits; Microwave sensors; Microwave theory and techniques; Radio control; Radio transmitters; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks; Batteryless; Cellular Base Station; Energy-harvesting; Rectenna; Sensor; Transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4725-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4726-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2010.5434128

Filename

5434128