Energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks: technology, components and system design

"Wireless sensors and sensor networks (WSNs) are nowadays becoming increasingly important due to their decisive advantages. Different trends towards the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 and 5G Networks address massive sensing and admit to have wireless sensors delivering measurement data directly to the Web in a reliable and easy manner. These sensors can only be supported, if sufficient energy efficiency and flexible solutions are developed for energy-aware wireless sensor nodes (WINO). In the last years, different possibilities for energy harvesting have been investigated showing a high level of maturity. This book gives therefore an overview on fundamentals and techniques for energy harvesting and energy transfer from different points of view. Different techniques and methods for energy transfer, management and energy saving on network level are reported together with selected interesting applications"--Page 4 of cover

pt. 1: Fundamentals and methods -- Finite element modeling of energy harvesters:application to vibrational devices / Roberto Palma, José L. Pérez-Aparicio, and Pedro Museros -- Solar energy harvesting for wireless sensor systems / Christian Viehweger -- Efficiency of vibration energy harvesting systems / Zdenek Hadas and Jan Smilek -- Energy management concepts for wireless sensor nodes / Martin Götz -- pt. 2: Vibration converters and hybridization-- Magnetoelectric vibration energy harvesting / Slim Naifar, Sonia Bradai, Slim Choura, and Olfa Kanoun -- Nonlinear electromagnetic vibration converter with bistable RMSHI for power harvesting from ambient vibration / Carlo Trigona, Sonia Bradai, Slim Naifar, Olfa Kanoun, and Salvatore Baglio -- Energy harvesting from an oscillating vertical piezoelectric cantilever with clearance / Krystian tybas, Piotr Wolszczak, Pawel Stąckek, and Grzegorz Litak -- On hybridization of electromagnetic vibration converters / Sonia Bradai, Slim Naifar, Riadh Elleuch, and Olfa Kanoun -- Hybrid vibrational energy harvesting using piezoelectric and magnetostrictive transducers / Andrzej Rysak, Marek Borowiec, Arkadiusz Syta, and Grzegorz Litak -- pt. 3: W…