Paper Info
Title
DoubleDip: leveraging thermoelectric harvesting for low power monitoring of sporadic water use
Abstract
We present DoubleDip, a low power monitoring system for enabling non-intrusive water flow detection. DoubleDip taps into minute thermal gradients in pipes for both replenishing energy reserves and performing low power wakeup. One of the remaining issues with wireless water monitoring in residences and offices is that current solutions require installing sensor nodes with access to electrical wiring or replacing batteries frequently. DoubleDip (DD) significantly extends the lifetime of vibration-based non-intrusive water flow sensors by harvesting thermal energy from hot pipes wherever accessible. DoubleDip requires less than an inch of exposed metal pipe to attach a coupler for gathering sufficient energy to power itself, in some cases, into perpetuity. We observe that water use in homes and offices is incredibly sporadic, making continuous monitoring both impractical and wasteful. Instead, DD puts a thermoelectric harvester into double duty. It uses thermal gradients not only for gathering energy but also for extremely low power (
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2426656.2426679
SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
water use,low power,sufficient energy,thermal energy,low power monitoring system,low power wakeup,replenishing energy reserve,doubledip tap,thermoelectric harvesting,sporadic water use,vibration-based non-intrusive water flow,non-intrusive water flow detection,thermoelectric,sustainability,energy harvesting
Water flow,Thermal energy,Wireless,Computer science,Energy harvesting,Installation,Real-time computing,Continuous monitoring,Electrical engineering,Water use,Electrical wiring,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.87
17
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul D. Martin 00011714.74
Zainul Charbiwala215012.93
Mani Srivastava3130521317.38