Paper Info
Title
Battery independence: Reducing the dependence on batteries in wearable computing through energy harvesting techniques
Abstract
This paper discusses one of the most troublesome and frustrating issues for mobile devices users, battery life. Once a battery is utilized in a system, battery charging must be incorporated seamlessly so that the workflow of the user is uninterrupted. In today's fast-paced society, people don't have the time to stop what they are doing to charge their mobile devices and wait for them to complete. A secondary known issue concerning batteries is that their effective capacity diminishes over time and use. In turn the process of battery charging would become more frequent and disruptive to the user. The need for an effective means to continually charge the battery through smart energy harvesting techniques will be investigated in the following paper. Utilizing the findings from other articles, we were able to generate easy-to-use formulas to help estimate the power across multiple real-world use cases (running, walking, sleeping, sun, shade, etc.) Testing the formulas across multiple use cases, only two of the cases generated more power in our application than what the system utilized. This excess power would be utilized to keep the battery's charge topped off. In the use cases where we didn't generate enough power, the battery would need to supplement the system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8248977
2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)
Keywords
Field
DocType
energy harvesting,low power,wearable computing
Use case,Computer science,Wearable computer,Energy harvesting,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Battery (electricity),Workflow,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1105-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Pasko100.34
Michael Mrazik200.34
Khaled M. Elleithy344872.86