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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Energy Harvesting in Smart Building Sensing: Overview and a Proof-of-Concept Study

Authors : Aristotelis Kollias, Colton Begert, Ioanis Nikolaidis

Published in: Handbook of Smart Cities

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Modern “smart” buildings require a plethora of sensors to be installed at various locations during the construction phase. Wiring costs and limited flexibility of installation make wired installations less attractive. An alternative, flexible, approach is to introduce wireless sensors and endow them with ways to harvest energy from the environment such that they attain the same “zero cost” of maintenance as their wired counterparts. The chapter reviews the sensing needs of smart buildings, and the related merits of energy harvesting to power embedded wireless sensor nodes. A proof-of-concept device exploiting thermoelectric harvesting is designed, built and tested to demonstrate how todays wireless sensing devices enable sustained continuous operation with minor energy harvesting requirements. In multi-hop environments, the underlying optimization problems are described and simple strategies that forego the solution of the hard computation problems but appear effective are outlined.

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Metadata
Title
Energy Harvesting in Smart Building Sensing: Overview and a Proof-of-Concept Study
Authors
Aristotelis Kollias
Colton Begert
Ioanis Nikolaidis
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Handbook of Smart Cities

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-97270-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-97271-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97271-8_14

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