Heliomote: enabling long-lived sensor networks through solar energy harvesting
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Harvesting aware power management for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
Power management in energy harvesting sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Section LCTES'05
Eon: a language and runtime system for perpetual systems
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Ekho: bridging the gap between simulation and reality in tiny energy-harvesting sensors
HotPower '11 Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems
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Evaluating and debugging solar panel driven systems can be a tedious and cumbersome process. The system must be deployed outdoors and evaluated across a wide range of lighting and temperature conditions. Therefore, for ease, several solar panel driven sensor and embedded systems today are evaluated at a particular location for a relatively short period of time. Consequently, the evaluation lacks external validity and the results cannot be generalized to a wide range of experimental conditions. To mitigate the above problem, we present the preliminary design and evaluation of a solar replayer and a solar profiler platform. The profiler system can be used to generate accurate I-V traces for solar cells, annotated with temperature and barometric pressure readings. The replayer is used to replay solar panel I-V curves on variable loads. The system allows in-lab evaluation of renewable energy driven systems for a wide range of current and voltage specifications (~(0-2 A) and ~(0-16V)).