• DocumentCode
    3577279
  • Title

    Self-Sustain Wireless Sensor Module

  • Author

    Wen-Yu Chuang ; Chang-Hung Lee ; Chih-Ting Lin ; Yu-Cheng Lien ; Wen-Jong Wu

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Inst. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    288
  • Lastpage
    291
  • Abstract
    A Solar-Powered Sensor Module (SPSM) that uses low-cost capacitors as energy buffers to power wireless sensor motes was investigated. Compared to batteries or super capacitors, SPSM is particularly suitable for light-weight tasks since it buffers limited energy and powers up periodically. With our method, the energy charging time can be shortened to about 100 ms for a maximum power point tracking component, and the current of the output regulator can reach 71% efficiency.
  • Keywords
    capacitors; solar power; wireless sensor networks; SPSM; batteries; energy buffers; energy charging time; low-cost capacitors; maximum power point tracking component; output regulator current; self-sustain wireless sensor module; solar-powered sensor module; supercapacitors; wireless sensor motes; Batteries; Capacitors; Maximum power point trackers; Monitoring; Software; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Energy harvesting; Gas monitoring; WSN;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Internet of Things (iThings), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, and Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), IEEE and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing(CPSCom), IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-5967-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/iThings.2014.51
  • Filename
    7059676