An adaptive testbed of energy harvesting active networked tags (EnHANTS) prototypes

Author

Margolies, Robert ; Pena, Luis ; Kanghwan Kim ; Youngwan Kim ; Meng Wang ; Gorlatova, Maria ; Sarik, John ; Jianxun Zhu ; Kinget, Peter ; Kymissis, Ioannis ; Zussman, Gil

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

14-19 April 2013

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

32

Abstract

EnHANTs will be small, flexible, and self-powered devices that will be attached to objects that are traditionally not networked (books, furniture, clothing), thereby enabling various tracking applications (more details are available at enhants.ee.columbia.edu). We demonstrate a small testbed of En- HANTs prototypes. The prototypes communicate using in-house-developed ultra-wide-band impulse radio (UWB-IR) transceivers. They create a multihop network and adapt the topology and communication patterns to the light energy harvested by the solar cells. The testbed includes a unique software-based light control system which enables controlled experiments. This demonstration accompanies [3].

Keywords

active networks; energy harvesting; lighting control; power engineering computing; radio transceivers; solar cells; telecommunication network topology; ultra wideband communication; EnHANT prototypes; UWB-IR transceivers; communication patterns; energy harvesting active networked tags; light energy; multihop network; self-powered devices; software-based light control system; solar cells; ultra-wideband impulse radio transceivers; Batteries; Control systems; Energy harvesting; Monitoring; Photovoltaic cells; Prototypes; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2013 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Turin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0055-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOMW.2013.6970711

Filename

6970711