scholarly journals Design and implementation of a wireless sensor communication system with low power consumption for energy harvesting technology

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlad Marsic ◽  
Meiling Zhu ◽  
Stewart Williams
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Design And Implementation

Wireless Vibration Sensing Without a Battery

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiying Huang ◽  
Yayu Hew
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Signal Modulation ◽  
Ultra Low Power

This paper presents the implementation and characterization of a low power wireless vibration sensor that can be powered by a flash light. The wireless system consists of two components, namely the wireless sensor node and the wireless interrogation unit. The wireless sensor node includes a wireless strain gauge that consumes around 6 mW, a signal modulation circuit, and a light energy harvesting unit. To achieve ultra-low power consumption, the signal modulation circuit was implemented using a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to convert the strain gauge output to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal, which is then used to alter the impedance of the sensor antenna and thus achieves amplitude modulation of the backscattered antenna signal. A generic solar panel with energy harvesting circuit is used to power the strain sensor node continuously. The wireless interrogation unit transmits the interrogation signal and receives the amplitude modulated antenna backscattering, which can be down-converted to recover the IF signal. In order to measure the strains dynamically, a Phase Lock Loop (PLL) circuit was implemented at the interrogator to track the frequency of the IF signal and provide a signal that is directly proportional to the measured strain. The system features ultra-low power consumption, complete wireless sensing, solar powering, and portability. The application of this low power wireless strain system for vibration measurement is demonstrated and characterized.

A low power consumption CMOS differential-ring VCO for a wireless sensor

2012 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 731-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanen Thabet ◽  
Stéphane Meillère ◽  
Mohamed Masmoudi ◽  
Jean-Luc Seguin ◽  
Hervé Barthelemy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Differential Ring

scholarly journals Design of Completion Detectors in Asynchronous Communication System

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 3329-3334
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Asynchronous Design ◽  
Global Clock ◽  
On Chip

In digital design, there are two types of design, synchronous design and asynchronous design. In synchronous design, global clock is one of the main system that consume a lot of power. The power in synchronous design is consumed by clock even if there is no data processing take place. The asynchronous design that depends on data is clockless and as far as the power is concerned, asynchronous design does not consume much power compared with synchronous design and this really make asynchronus design the preffered choice for low power consumption. Besides having low power consumption, there are many advantages of aynchronous design compared with synchronous design. This paper proposed new dual rail completion detector (CD), 3-6 CD, 2-7 CD and 1-4 CD for on-chip communication that are used widely in an asynchronous communication system. The design of CD is based on the principle of sum adder. The circuit is designed by using Altera Quartus II CAD tools, synthesis and implementation process is executed to check the syntax error of the design. The design proved to be successful by using asynchronous on-chip communication in the simulation.

scholarly journals An efficient networking solution for extending and controlling wireless sensor networks using low-energy technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e780
Author(s):  
Mostafa Ibrahim Labib ◽  
Mohamed ElGazzar ◽  
Atef Ghalwash ◽  
Sarah Nabil AbdulKader
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Mesh Networks ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Mesh Topology ◽  
Energy Technologies

Wireless sensor networks connect a set of highly flexible wireless devices with small weight and size. They are used to monitor and control the environment by organizing the acquired data at a central device. Constructing fully connected networks using low power consumption sensors, devices, and protocols is one of the main challenges facing wireless sensor networks, especially in places where it is difficult to establish wireless networks in a normal way, such as military areas, archaeological sites, agricultural districts, construction sites, and so on. This paper proposes an approach for constructing and extending Bi-Directional mesh networks using low power consumption technologies inside various indoors and outdoors architectures called “an adaptable Spider-Mesh topology”. The use of ESP-NOW protocol as a communication technology added an advantage of longer communication distance versus a slight increase of consumed power. It provides 15 times longer distance compared to BLE protocol while consuming only twice as much power. Therefore, according to our theoretical and experimental comparisons, the proposed approach could provide higher network coverage while maintaining an acceptable level of power consumption.

scholarly journals Study of a Low-Power-Consumption Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuit Based on Synchronized Switching Technology

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 3166
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Hong ◽  
Fu Chen ◽  
Ming He ◽  
Sheng Wang ◽  
Wenxiang Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting ◽  
Interface Circuit ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy

This paper presents a study of a piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit based on low-power-consumption synchronized switch technology. The proposed circuit includes a parallel synchronized switch harvesting on inductor interface circuit (P-SSHI) and a step-down DC-DC converter. The synchronized switch technology is applied to increase the conversion efficiency of the circuit. The DC-DC converter is used to accomplish the impedance matching for different loads. A low-power-consumption microcontroller and discrete components are used to build the P-SSHI interface circuit. The study starts with theoretical analysis and simulations of the P-SSHI interface circuit. Simulations and experiments were conducted to validate the theoretical analysis. The experimental results show that the maximum energy harvested by the system with a P-SSHI interface circuit is 231 μW, which is 2.89 times that of a system without the P-SSHI scheme. The power consumption of the P-SSHI interface circuit can be as low as 10.6 μW.

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