Title
A survey of multi-source energy harvesting systems
Abstract
Energy harvesting allows low-power embedded devices to be powered from naturally-ocurring or unwanted environmental energy (e.g. light, vibration, or temperature difference). While a number of systems incorporating energy harvesters are now available commercially, they are specific to certain types of energy source. Energy availability can be a temporal as well as spatial effect. To address this issue, 'hybrid' energy harvesting systems combine multiple harvesters on the same platform, but the design of these systems is not straightforward. This paper surveys their design, including trade-offs affecting their efficiency, applicability, and ease of deployment. This survey, and the taxonomy of multi-source energy harvesting systems that it presents, will be of benefit to designers of future systems. Furthermore, we identify and comment upon the current and future research directions in this field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.7873/DATE.2013.190
DATE
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy storage,energy harvesting,system on chip,computer architecture,radar signature,fpga,microcontrollers,hardware
Temperature difference,Software deployment,System on a chip,Systems engineering,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Energy harvesting,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Energy source,Vibration,Multi-source
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1591
34
2.13
References 
Authors
7
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alex S. Weddell122525.00
Michele Magno250059.74
geoffrey merrett341149.30
Davide Brunelli4103893.98
Bashir M. Al-Hashimi51339112.57
Luca Benini6131161188.49