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WICON
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Energy consumption is a perennial issue in the design of wireless sensor networks which typically rely on portable sources like batteries for power. Recent advances in ambient ene...
AINA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2009
IEEE
The use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for structural health monitoring is gaining popularity since it allows for a low-cost, rapid and robust assessment of structural integri...
BSN
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—We have developed a wearable, battery-free tag that monitors heart sounds. The tag powers up by harvesting ambient RF energy, and contains a low-power integrated circuit, an ant...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
We study the feasibility of extending the lifetime of a wireless sensor network by exploiting mobility. In our system, a small percentage of network nodes are autonomously mobile,...
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
Mobile sensing is difficult without power. Emerging Computational RFIDs (CRFIDs) provide both sensing and generalpurpose computation without batteries--instead relying on small ca...