Title
DSPs for energy harvesting sensors: applications and architectures
Abstract
Battery technology has not kept pace with recent growth in the number, variety, and capability of embedded and portable digital electronics. Energy harvesting from human or environmental sources is a promising alternative, and active harvesting has already seen commercial applications in wind-up and shake-to-recharge electronics. However, passive energy harvesting using mechanical vibration as a power source has potentially wider application in wearable and embedded sensors, as either a complement or replacement for batteries or solar energy harvesting. Two applications--one computing an FFT to monitor a shipboard gas turbine's vibrations and the other using data from a wearable acoustic biomedical sensor to analyze a user's exertion state--illustrate the range of requirements. The SensorDSP is a chip implementation for a wearable biomedical sensor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/MPRV.2005.54
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital signal processing chips,distributed sensors,embedded systems,energy conservation,sensors,DSP chip,battery power,digital signal processor,embedded digital electronics,energy harvesting sensors,sensor network,Energy-aware systems,Integrated circuits,Low-power design
Digital electronics,Energy conservation,Computer science,Digital signal processor,Energy harvesting,Mechanical vibration,Battery (electricity),Integrated circuit,Electrical engineering,Multimedia,Wireless sensor network,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
3
1536-1268
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.73
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amirtharajah, R.1201.73
Collier, J.2353.45
Siebert, J.3353.45
Zhou, B.4214.32