Paper Info
Title
Short-term energy storage for wireless sensor networks using solar energy harvesting
Abstract
Solar energy harvesting has become a common energy source for outdoor wireless sensor networks. To avoid the lifetime limitation of traditional secondary battery technologies in these systems, energy harvesting architectures with short-term energy storage can be chosen. These technologies offer long shelf-life and many recharge cycles, but can buffer for only short periods of time due to their small storage capacity. In this paper we present the analysis of two of these short-term energy storage devices, namely double layer capacitors and thin-film batteries. We present different harvesting architectures using these buffer elements and compare their advantages and disadvantages in relation to being used in low-power wireless sensor network applications. Experimental results show that both storage types are viable options for the intended application, each bringing their own strengths and weaknesses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICNSC.2013.6548713
Networking, Sensing and Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy harvesting,energy storage,secondary cells,wireless sensor networks,buffer elements,double layer capacitors,low-power wireless sensor network application,outdoor wireless sensor networks,recharge cycles,secondary battery technologies,shelf-life,short-term energy storage,solar energy harvesting,thin-film batteries
Energy storage,Capacitor,Computer science,Energy harvesting,Electronic engineering,Solar energy harvesting,Energy source,Battery (electricity),Wireless sensor network,Electrical engineering,Double layer (surface science)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1810-7869
978-1-4673-5199-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Bader145.73
B Oelmann27721.78