Applications of energy-driven computing: a transiently-powered wireless cycle computer
Applications of energy-driven computing: a transiently-powered wireless cycle computer
There has been a dramatic increase in recent years in the number of battery-powered embedded electronic devices. However, the lifetime of these devices is limited by battery capacity. Energy harvesting is an efficient solution to overcome this limitation; however, large energy buffers have been traditionally employed to tackle the temporal variation of the source. These buffers typically require considerable time to charge while introducing a cost, size and weight overhead. Energy-driven systems are specifically designed to operate from an energy harvesting source, without overprovisioning energy storage to make the system appear "battery-like". Furthermore, a transiently-powered system is capable of sustaining computation despite an intermittent supply, without the need for additional energy storage. While this shows much promise, the wide applicability of these systems to real-life applications is yet to be demonstrated. This paper presents a transiently-powered wireless bicycle trip counter which measures distance, speed and active cycling time, and transmits data wirelessly. The system sustains operation by harvesting energy from the rotation of the wheel, operating from a minimum speed of 6kph, while adapting its operation
in response to the harvested energy.
Senkans, Uvis
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Balsamo, Domenico
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Verykios, Theodoros D.
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Senkans, Uvis
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Verykios, Theodoros D.
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Merrett, Geoff V.
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Senkans, Uvis, Balsamo, Domenico, Verykios, Theodoros D. and Merrett, Geoff V.
(2017)
Applications of energy-driven computing: a transiently-powered wireless cycle computer.
5th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems: ENSsys 2017, Delft, Netherlands.
05 - 08 Nov 2017.
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There has been a dramatic increase in recent years in the number of battery-powered embedded electronic devices. However, the lifetime of these devices is limited by battery capacity. Energy harvesting is an efficient solution to overcome this limitation; however, large energy buffers have been traditionally employed to tackle the temporal variation of the source. These buffers typically require considerable time to charge while introducing a cost, size and weight overhead. Energy-driven systems are specifically designed to operate from an energy harvesting source, without overprovisioning energy storage to make the system appear "battery-like". Furthermore, a transiently-powered system is capable of sustaining computation despite an intermittent supply, without the need for additional energy storage. While this shows much promise, the wide applicability of these systems to real-life applications is yet to be demonstrated. This paper presents a transiently-powered wireless bicycle trip counter which measures distance, speed and active cycling time, and transmits data wirelessly. The system sustains operation by harvesting energy from the rotation of the wheel, operating from a minimum speed of 6kph, while adapting its operation
in response to the harvested energy.
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Published date: 2017
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Balsamo, D., Merrett, G. V., Zaghari, B., Wei, Y., Ramchurn, S., Stein, S., ... Beeby, S. (2017). Wearable and autonomous computing for future smart cities: open challenges. Paper presented at 25th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Slit, Croatia.
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5th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems: ENSsys 2017, Delft, Netherlands, 2017-11-05 - 2017-11-08
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