Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are crucial in supporting continuous environmental
monitoring, where sensor nodes are deployed and must remain operational to collect and …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is a powerful platform for connecting the physical world to
the digital one. The recent development in IoT-based technologies has increased human …

Energy harvesting (EH) technologies could lead to self-sustaining wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) which are set to be a key technology in Industry 4.0. There are numerous methods …

Various industry forecasts project that, by 2020, there will be around 50 billion devices
connected to the Internet of Things (IoT), helping to engineer new solutions to societal-scale …

Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often
times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most …

This chapter covers the fundamental aspects of energy harvesting‐based wireless sensor
networks (EHWSNs), ranging from the architecture of an EHWSN node and of its energy …

Miniaturization of devices with higher computational capacity coupled with advancement in
communication technologies is driving the growth of deployment of sensors and actuators in …

Micro-scale energy harvesting has emerged as an attractive and increasingly feasible option
to alleviate the power supply challenge in a variety of low power applications, such as …

Interconnected LPWAN devices, which create the IoT, are usually powered by batteries that
significantly limit their operational lifetime. The main disadvantage of batteries is that they …

Small autonomous embedded systems powered by means of energy harvesting techniques,
have gained momentum in industry and research. This paper presents a simple, yet effective …