Energy Harvesting Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Kinetic Energy Harvesting

   • Dibin Zhu, Steve Beeby

   Pages 1-77

3. Modelling, Performance Optimisation and Automated Design of Mixed-Technology Energy Harvester Systems

   • Tom J. Kázmierski, Leran Wang

   Pages 79-101

4. Simulation of Ultra-Low Power Sensor Networks

   • Jan Haase, Joseph Wenninger, Christoph Grimm, Jiong Ou

   Pages 103-140

5. Remote Sensing of Car Tire Pressure

   • Thomas Herndl

   Pages 141-159

6. Back Matter

   Pages 161-163

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Kinetic energy harvesting converts movement or vibrations into electrical energy, enables battery free operation of wireless sensors and autonomous devices and facilitates their placement in locations where replacing a battery is not feasible or attractive. This book provides an introduction to operating principles and design methods of modern kinetic energy harvesting systems and explains the implications of harvested power on autonomous electronic systems design. It describes power conditioning circuits that maximize available energy and electronic systems design strategies that minimize power consumption and enable operation. The principles discussed in the book will be supported by real case studies such as battery-less monitoring sensors at water waste processing plants, embedded battery-less sensors in automotive electronics and sensor-networks built with ultra-low power wireless nodes suitable for battery-less applications.

• Autonomous electronic systems design
• Electronic Design Automation
• Embedded Systems
• Energy harvesting
• Integrated circuit design
• Kinetic energy harvesting
• Low-power design
• Ultra-low power sensor networks
• Ultra-low power wireless data transmission

• School of Electronics &, Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  Tom J. Kaźmierski, Steve Beeby

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