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Demo abstract: An energy-driven wireless bicycle trip counter with zero energy storage

Demo abstract: An energy-driven wireless bicycle trip counter with zero energy storage
Demo abstract: An energy-driven wireless bicycle trip counter with zero energy storage
This paper presents the implementation of a bicycle trip counter, which measures cycling speed, traveled distance, and cycling time, that is directly powered from tiny periodic pulses of energy with only the intrinsically present decoupling capacitance as an energy buffer. To cope with the highly variable amount of energy generated during each pulse, an energy-driven approach is used. The core principles in this approach are to dynamically adjust operational mode according to energy availability, to scale performance, for example sensing accuracy, proportional to energy harvested, and to perform intermittent or transient computing to enable computation across multiple power cycles. The device presented is able to start operation from energy supply pulses as low as 4 uJ, where a rough estimate of the sensing parameters is done, and perform increasingly complex and time-consuming tasks such as additional more accurate measurements, sensor fusion, and filtering computations as more energy becomes available.
Energy Driven Framework, Transient Computing, Embedded Systems, Energy Harvesting
Wong, Samuel Chang Bing
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Balsamo, Domenico
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Merrett, Geoff
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Wong, Samuel Chang Bing
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Balsamo, Domenico
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Merrett, Geoff
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Wong, Samuel Chang Bing, Balsamo, Domenico and Merrett, Geoff (2018) Demo abstract: An energy-driven wireless bicycle trip counter with zero energy storage. The 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2018), China. 04 - 07 Nov 2018. 2 pp .

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Abstract

This paper presents the implementation of a bicycle trip counter, which measures cycling speed, traveled distance, and cycling time, that is directly powered from tiny periodic pulses of energy with only the intrinsically present decoupling capacitance as an energy buffer. To cope with the highly variable amount of energy generated during each pulse, an energy-driven approach is used. The core principles in this approach are to dynamically adjust operational mode according to energy availability, to scale performance, for example sensing accuracy, proportional to energy harvested, and to perform intermittent or transient computing to enable computation across multiple power cycles. The device presented is able to start operation from energy supply pulses as low as 4 uJ, where a rough estimate of the sensing parameters is done, and perform increasingly complex and time-consuming tasks such as additional more accurate measurements, sensor fusion, and filtering computations as more energy becomes available.

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Published date: November 2018
Venue - Dates: The 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2018), China, 2018-11-04 - 2018-11-07
Keywords: Energy Driven Framework, Transient Computing, Embedded Systems, Energy Harvesting

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Local EPrints ID: 423191
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/423191
PURE UUID: eb5ab204-2612-4c83-80af-5c39370b448d
ORCID for Geoff Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Date deposited: 19 Sep 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:46

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Author: Samuel Chang Bing Wong
Author: Domenico Balsamo
Author: Geoff Merrett ORCID iD

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