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SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Performance aware tasking for environmentally powered sensor networks
The use of environmental energy is now emerging as a feasible energy source for embedded and wireless computing systems such as sensor networks where manual recharging or replacem...
Aman Kansal, Dunny Potter, Mani B. Srivastava
ISLPED
2010
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
DuraCap: a supercapacitor-based, power-bootstrapping, maximum power point tracking energy-harvesting system
DuraCap is a solar-powered energy harvesting system that stores harvested energy in supercapacitors and is voltage-compatible with lithium-ion batteries. The use of supercapacitor...
Chien-Ying Chen, Pai H. Chou
SENSYS
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Everlast: long-life, supercapacitor-operated wireless sensor node
This paper describes a supercapacitor-operated, solar-powered wireless sensor node called Everlast. Unlike traditional wireless sensors that store energy in batteries, Everlast’...
Farhan Simjee, Devyani Sharma, Pai H. Chou
EENERGY
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Combustible gases and early fire detection: an autonomous system for wireless sensor networks
Fires or toxic gas leakages may have grave consequences like significant pecuniary loss or even lead to human victims. In this paper we present an autonomous wireless sensor syste...
Andrey Somov, D. Spirjakin, M. Ivanov, I. Khromush...
SENSYS
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Intelligent light control using sensor networks
Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are...
Vipul Singhvi, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Ja...