This book is the considered the first to describe sensor-oriented energy harvesting issues. Its content is derived from the author's research on the development of a truly self-autonomous and sustainable energy harvesting wireless sensor network (EH-WSN). This network harvests e…
The thesis examines the design and implementation of a supervisory controller for the energy management of an AC stand-alone microgrid. The microgrid under study consists of a photovoltaic (PV), battery energy storage system (BESS) and auxiliary (micro gas turbine) units connect…
Future power systems (known as smart grid) will experience a high penetration level of variable distributed energy resources to bring abundant, affordable, clean, efficient, and reliable electric power to all consumers. However, it might suffer from the uncertain and variable na…
In today's IC design, one of the key challenges is the increase in power consumption of the circuit which in turn shortens the service time of battery-powered electronics, and increases the cooling and packaging costs of server systems. On the other hand, with the increasing lev…
Advanced CMOS technology exhibits increasing variations in performance, power consumption and reliability parameters. These variations led to extensive overdesigning and increased power consumption to guarantee 100% reliable operation. However, with the continuous shrinking of d…