Energy harvesting for wireless IoT use cases : a generic feasibility model and tradeoff study
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- Dries Van Leemput (UGent) , Adnan Sabovic, Khodr Hammoud, Jeroen Famaey (UGent) , Sofie Pollin and Eli De Poorter (UGent)
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- A batteryless Internet of Things (IoT) offers a sustainable alternative to battery-powered IoT devices, which produce billions of dead batteries every year. Devices are instead powered by a small supercapacitor, which is recharged by a renewable energy source. However, since IoT devices are often characterized by intermittent periods of high energy consumption followed by periods of reduced activity, conventional average energy consumption models cannot be used to assess if IoT devices can be powered by energy harvesters. Therefore, this article presents an alternative feasibility evaluation approach that focuses on modeling the worst case periods with peak energy consumption and short idle times, which pose the highest constraints on the capacitor's behavior. This approach simplifies the characterization of the wireless technology energy consumption as these worst case periods can be determined by a few parameters. The methodology is then applied to combinations of popular IoT technologies (LoRaWAN, BLE Mesh, and 6TiSCH) and energy sources (solar, kinetic, and radio frequency energy) for two common IoT use cases. We show that the proposed parameters can be successfully extracted with power measurements for different network configurations and that the Power Management Unit configuration has a nonnegligible impact on the communication requirements. Finally, we discuss how to apply the model to other technologies and other use cases.
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- NETWORKS, LORAWAN, 6TiSCH, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), energy harvesting, feasibility study, Internet of Things (IoT), long range wide area network (LoRaWAN)
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HEJ164H16RPB9VZJ0TV4X6CE
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- Van Leemput, Dries, et al. “Energy Harvesting for Wireless IoT Use Cases : A Generic Feasibility Model and Tradeoff Study.” IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, vol. 10, no. 17, 2023, pp. 15025–43, doi:10.1109/JIOT.2023.3263543.
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- Van Leemput, D., Sabovic, A., Hammoud, K., Famaey, J., Pollin, S., & De Poorter, E. (2023). Energy harvesting for wireless IoT use cases : a generic feasibility model and tradeoff study. IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, 10(17), 15025–15043. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2023.3263543
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- Van Leemput, Dries, Adnan Sabovic, Khodr Hammoud, Jeroen Famaey, Sofie Pollin, and Eli De Poorter. 2023. “Energy Harvesting for Wireless IoT Use Cases : A Generic Feasibility Model and Tradeoff Study.” IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL 10 (17): 15025–43. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2023.3263543.
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- Van Leemput, Dries, Adnan Sabovic, Khodr Hammoud, Jeroen Famaey, Sofie Pollin, and Eli De Poorter. 2023. “Energy Harvesting for Wireless IoT Use Cases : A Generic Feasibility Model and Tradeoff Study.” IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL 10 (17): 15025–15043. doi:10.1109/JIOT.2023.3263543.
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- 1.Van Leemput D, Sabovic A, Hammoud K, Famaey J, Pollin S, De Poorter E. Energy harvesting for wireless IoT use cases : a generic feasibility model and tradeoff study. IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL. 2023;10(17):15025–43.
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- [1]D. Van Leemput, A. Sabovic, K. Hammoud, J. Famaey, S. Pollin, and E. De Poorter, “Energy harvesting for wireless IoT use cases : a generic feasibility model and tradeoff study,” IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, vol. 10, no. 17, pp. 15025–15043, 2023.
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