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With no cord for power and limited space for a battery, powering these devices for operating in a set-and-forget mode (i.e., achieve several months to possibly years of unattended operation) becomes a daunting challenge. Environmental energy harvesting (where the system powers itself using energy that it scavenges from its operating environment) has been shown to be a promising and viable option for powering these IoT devices. However, ambient energy sources (such as vibration, wind, RF signals) are often minuscule, unreliable, and intermittent in nature, which can lead to frequent intervals of power loss. 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