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Approaches to Transient Computing for Energy Harvesting Systems - A Quantitative Evaluation

Approaches to Transient Computing for Energy Harvesting Systems - A Quantitative Evaluation
Approaches to Transient Computing for Energy Harvesting Systems - A Quantitative Evaluation
Systems operating from harvested sources typically integrate batteries or supercapacitors to smooth out rapid changes in harvester output. However, such energy storage devices require time for charging and increase the size, mass and cost of the system. A recent approach to address this is to power systems directly from the harvester output, termed transient computing. To solve the problem of having to restart computation from the start due to power-cycles, a number of techniques have been proposed to deal with transient power sources. In this paper, we quantitatively evaluate three state-of-the-art approaches on a Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller characterizing the application scenarios where each performs best. Finally, recommendations are provided to system designers for selecting the most suitable approach.
checkpoint, hibernus, iot, mementos, quickrecall
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Rodriguez Arreola, Alberto
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Rodriguez Arreola, Alberto, Balsamo, Domenico, Das, Anup, Weddell, Alex S., Brunelli, Davide, Al-Hashimi, Bashir and Merrett, Geoff (2015) Approaches to Transient Computing for Energy Harvesting Systems - A Quantitative Evaluation. ENSsys '15 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Energy Harvesting Energy Neutral Sensing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of. 01 - 04 Nov 2015. pp. 3-8 . (doi:10.1145/2820645.2820652).

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Systems operating from harvested sources typically integrate batteries or supercapacitors to smooth out rapid changes in harvester output. However, such energy storage devices require time for charging and increase the size, mass and cost of the system. A recent approach to address this is to power systems directly from the harvester output, termed transient computing. To solve the problem of having to restart computation from the start due to power-cycles, a number of techniques have been proposed to deal with transient power sources. In this paper, we quantitatively evaluate three state-of-the-art approaches on a Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller characterizing the application scenarios where each performs best. Finally, recommendations are provided to system designers for selecting the most suitable approach.

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Published date: 1 November 2015
Venue - Dates: ENSsys '15 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Energy Harvesting Energy Neutral Sensing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2015-11-01 - 2015-11-04
Keywords: checkpoint, hibernus, iot, mementos, quickrecall
Organisations: EEE

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Local EPrints ID: 391934
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/391934
PURE UUID: 0541c29e-5221-4cb0-aac0-f1fbf38f18f4
ORCID for Alex S. Weddell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-5460
ORCID for Geoff Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Author: Alberto Rodriguez Arreola
Author: Domenico Balsamo
Author: Anup Das
Author: Alex S. Weddell ORCID iD
Author: Davide Brunelli
Author: Bashir Al-Hashimi
Author: Geoff Merrett ORCID iD

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