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Current Developments of Energy Scavenging, Converting and Storing in WSNs

by A.A. Bhaskar, R. Champawat, S.A. Bhaskar
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 125 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2015
Authors: A.A. Bhaskar, R. Champawat, S.A. Bhaskar
10.5120/ijca2015905946

A.A. Bhaskar, R. Champawat, S.A. Bhaskar . Current Developments of Energy Scavenging, Converting and Storing in WSNs. International Journal of Computer Applications. 125, 7 ( September 2015), 6-12. DOI=10.5120/ijca2015905946

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author = { A.A. Bhaskar, R. Champawat, S.A. Bhaskar },
title = { Current Developments of Energy Scavenging, Converting and Storing in WSNs },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { September 2015 },
volume = { 125 },
number = { 7 },
month = { September },
year = { 2015 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 6-12 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume125/number7/22442-2015905946/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2015905946 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A R. Champawat
%A S.A. Bhaskar
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%D 2015
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) design requires multi-disciplinary approach in the field of wireless communication, embedded systems, networking, digital signal processing, hardware and software engineering. Major factors to influence the WSNs design are hardware and software constraints, scalability, cost, transmission media, network topology and power consumption etc. Most of WSN nodes are battery powered. With the limited capacity of batteries to power WSN nodes, need of energy harvester or scavenger is required to harvest or scavenge energy from the environment to improve the life-time of the sensor node. The harvested or scavenged energy is converted by power converters to recharge the sensor nodes or for the storage devices. This paper gives current developments of energy harvesting technologies, power converters and storage devices proposed by various researchers in WSNs along with some open research problems.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Energy Harvesting Power Management System Wireless Sensor Networks Power Convertors Energy Storage Devices.

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