System architecture directions for networked sensors
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
System architecture directions for networked sensors
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The Challenges of Wearable Computing: Part 1
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Node-Level Energy Management for Sensor Networks in the Presence of Multiple Applications
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
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Electric Suspenders: A Fabric Power Bus and Data Network for Wearable Digital Devices
ISWC '99 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
The case for reconfigurable hardware in wearable computing
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Performance aware tasking for environmentally powered sensor networks
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Node-level energy management for sensor networks in the presence of multiple applications
Wireless Networks - Special issue: Pervasive computing and communications
Pervasive Power: A Radioisotope-Powered Piezoelectric Generator
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Systems for human-powered mobile computing
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Design considerations for solar energy harvesting wireless embedded systems
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Adaptive duty cycling for energy harvesting systems
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Design and power management of energy harvesting embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Power management in energy harvesting sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Section LCTES'05
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Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks
PL-Tags: Detecting Batteryless Tags through the Power Lines in a Building
Pervasive '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Challenge: ultra-low-power energy-harvesting active networked tags (EnHANTs)
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ROBIO'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Robotics and biomimetics
Smart dust sensor network with piezoelectric energy harvesting
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
Energy harvesting active networked tags (EnHANTs) for ubiquitous object networking
IEEE Wireless Communications
Towards autonomous energy-wise RObjects
TAROS'11 Proceedings of the 12th Annual conference on Towards autonomous robotic systems
ShoeSense: a new perspective on gestural interaction and wearable applications
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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As the power requirements for microelectronics continue decreasing, environmental energy sources can begin to replace batteries in certain wearable subsystems. In this spirit, this paper examines three different devices that can be built into a shoe, (where excess energy is readily harvested) and used for generating electrical power "parasitically" while walking. Two of these are piezoelectric in nature: a unimorph strip made from piezoceramic composite material and a stave made from a multilayer laminate of PVDF foil. The third is a shoe-mounted rotary magnetic generator. Test results are given for these systems, their relative merits and compromises are discussed, and suggestions are proposed for improvements and potential applications in wearable systems. As a self-powered application example, a system had been built around the piezoelectric shoes that periodically broadcasts a digital RFID as the bearer walks.