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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"self-powered sensor"”.
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Self-powered wireless sensor system using MEMS piezoelectric micro power generator (PMPG)
… has been integrated with a commercial wireless sensor node (Telos), to demonstrate a self-powered RF temperature sensor module. PMPG and a power management module are designed to satisfy sensor node's power requirement. An electro-mechanical model of PMPG has been developed to maximize power …
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Design of a model pipeline for testing of piezoelectric micro power generator for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
… Pipeline System (TAPS), a distributed wireless self-powered sensor array is needed to monitor the entire length of the pipeline at all times. Such a sensor faces two primary challenges: a method to provide power for the sensor, and a method to detect corrosion. This project has two goals: to …
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Broadband acoustic energy harvesting via synthesized electrical loading
The need for self-powered wireless sensor nodes is ever increasing. One promising technology for self-powered sensor nodes is acoustic energy harvesting (AEH): deriving energy from ambient sound. Current AEH designs are typically based on resonant structures, yielding narrowband energy harvesting …
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Nanopower Analog Frontends for Cyber-Physical Systems
… physical phenomena to pave the way towards a self-powered sensor for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In general, a sensor frontend can be broken up into a handful of basic stages: transduction, filtering, energy conversion, measurement, and interfacing. One analog artifact that was investigated …
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Wearable Power Sources and Self-powered Sensors Based on the Triboelectric Nanogenerators
… attention in the fields of power sources and self-powered sensors. By coupling the omnipresent triboelectrification effect and the electrical induction effect, the TENGs can transduce ambient mechanical energy into electrical energy. Such energy could be consumed instantaneously or stored for …
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Magnetoelectric Composites for On-Chip Near-Resonance Applications
… improving applications such as magnetic field sensors, filters, transformers, memory devices and energy harvesters. It has been shown both experimentally and theoretically that the composite structures consisting of piezoelectric and magnetostrictive phases possess stronger ME coupling in …