Self-powered Energy Harvesting Systems for Health Supervising Applications

Description

This book highlights the current and recent state-of-the-art developments in energy harvesting systems for health supervising applications. It explores the exciting potential of energy harvesting as a crosscutting field of research to intersect with other areas to envisage new products, solutions, and applications. Among all these new opportunities for synergy, there is a research area that fully matches the features offered by energy harvesting with its power supply's main needs- health supervising (HS), which consists of monitoring the health or operating conditions of anything, such as structures, buildings, public health, environment, etc. The book covers the hand in hand evolution towards a new paradigm: truly self-powered devices based on a single transducer acting as a sensor and as power source simultaneously and efficiently. This evolution is illustrated by the concept and implementation of novel state-of-the-art architecture for self-powered energy harvesting systems for applications that range from structural health monitoring to point-of-care medical devices. Preface Acknowledgements Contents 1 Introduction References 2 Self-powered Nodes for Structural Health Monitoring Applications 2.1 Wireless Sensor Nodes for Aerospace Applications 2.2 Adaptative Self-powered Circuit for Structural Health Monitoring 2.2.1 Piezoelectric-Based Energy-Harvesting System 2.2.2 Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm 2.2.3 Analog Control Unit 2.2.4 Wireless Transmission of Strain 2.3 Energy-Aware Adaptative Supercapacitor Storage System 2.4 CMOS Integrated Circuit for Structural Health Monitoring 2.5 Conclusions References 3 Galvanic Cell-Based Self-powered Devices 3.1 Dual-Galvanic Cell-Based Self-powered Devices 3.1.1 The Paper-Based Test Strip 3.1.2 The Electronic Reader 3.2 Single-Galvanic Cell-Based Self-powered Devices 3.2.1 The Galvanic Cell 3.2.2 The Electronic Reader 3.2.3 Point-Of-Care Device Characterization 3.2.4 Results Summary 3.3 Conclusions References 4 Ubiquitous Self-powered Architectures 4.1 Exploiting the Transducer Role as a Sensor and Power Source Simultaneously 4.2 Ubiquitous Self-powered Architecture 4.3 Conclusions References 5 LoRa Autosensed Self-powered Monitoring for Smart Industry 5.1 Low-Power Communications 5.1.1 Long-Range Communications 5.1.2 Long-Range Wide-Area Network 5.2 Algorithm to Enable LPWAN on Critical Low-Power Scenarios 5.3 Scenario Test 5.4 Conclusions References 6 Conclusions and Future Work 6.1 Conclusions 6.2 Future Work