Design of a Wireless Sensor Powered by a Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damiano Milani ◽  
Marco Bassetti ◽  
Francesco Braghin ◽  
Gisella Tomasini
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Node ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Energy Scavenging ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy ◽  
Autonomous Sensor ◽  
Wireless Module

Sensor nodes are innovative devices that can perform measurements on a large scale and communicate over a network. One of the most significant problems regarding the sensor nodes is how to supply power to a large number of devices. For this reason, they greatly benefit from energy harvesting techniques which can provide energy recovered directly from the environment. A study of the design and the modeling of an autonomous sensor node, powered by a vibrational piezoelectric harvester, is reported here. Subject of the first part of the analysis is a piezoelectric bimorph: an analytical model is proposed in order to estimate the performance, giving particular attention to the optimal mechanical and electrical parameters. The model is then validated through experimental tests, assuming different kinds of real scenarios. Then the results are used to design a device that can benefit from this harvester. In particular a wireless sensor node is developed, for which the energy scavenging ensures energy autonomy and long-term operability. Thanks to a particular harvesting circuit and opportune algorithms for energy management, this system is able to extract energy from vibrations and store it into capacitors. The embedded accelerometer and a wireless module make this device ideal for Structure Health Monitoring purposes.

Open Lorawan Sensor Node Architecture for Agriculture Applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Bolte ◽  
Ulf Witkowski ◽  
Rolf Morgenstern
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Node ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Wireless Data ◽  
Wireless Data Transmission ◽  
Power Battery ◽  
New Sensors

In agriculture, it becomes more and more important to have detailed data, e.g. about weather and soil quality, not only in large scale classic crop farming applications but also for urban agriculture. This paper proposes a modular wireless sensor node that can be used in a centralized data acquisition scenario. A centralized approach, in this case multiple sensor nodes and a single gateway or a set of gateways, can be easily installed even without local infrastructure as mains supply. The sensor node integrates a LoRaWAN radio module that allows long-range wireless data transmission and low-power battery operation for several months at reasonable module costs. The developed wireless sensor node is an open system with focus on easy adaption to new sensors and applications. The proposed system is evaluated in terms of transmission range, battery runtime and sensor data accuracy.

scholarly journals Development of Wireless Sensor Node Addressing and Data Packet Collision Avoidance Scheme

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S6) ◽  
pp. 803-807
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Wireless Sensor Nodes ◽  
Packet Collision ◽  
Autonomous Sensor ◽  
Spatially Distributed

Wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of autonomous sensor devices that are spatially distributed in a wide area. Wireless sensor network is built up from a large number of sensor nodes that are assigned to a specific tasks and most probably is monitoring and reporting tasks. However, since the network might be expanded to hundreds, thousands or even millions of sensor nodes, there will be a high chance for the data from different wireless sensor nodes to collide with one another. Therefore, a proper node addressing scheme is needed to synchronize the data packages transmissions to the sink station. In this paper, a seven bytes addressing string scheme is proposed to encapsulate the node data and assist the sink station in identifying the data packages sources. The addressing string will be created in the wireless sensor node which it contains the node ID, package ID and the node data as well. The package ID is included to detect collided packages within the network. The data packages collision is avoided by allowing the sensor node to access the RF channel and transmit the data at a random time. The experimental results reviled that the proposed scheme was successfully addressed the wireless sensor node and make node identification at the sink station easy.

scholarly journals Sensor System: A Survey of Sensor Type, Ad Hoc Network Topology and Energy Harvesting Techniques

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Phuoc Duc Nguyen ◽  
Lok-won Kim
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Sensor System ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Energy Scavenging ◽  
Term Operation

People nowadays are entering an era of rapid evolution due to the generation of massive amounts of data. Such information is produced with an enormous contribution from the use of billions of sensing devices equipped with in situ signal processing and communication capabilities which form wireless sensor networks (WSNs). As the number of small devices connected to the Internet is higher than 50 billion, the Internet of Things (IoT) devices focus on sensing accuracy, communication efficiency, and low power consumption because IoT device deployment is mainly for correct information acquisition, remote node accessing, and longer-term operation with lower battery changing requirements. Thus, recently, there have been rich activities for original research in these domains. Various sensors used by processing devices can be heterogeneous or homogeneous. Since the devices are primarily expected to operate independently in an autonomous manner, the abilities of connection, communication, and ambient energy scavenging play significant roles, especially in a large-scale deployment. This paper classifies wireless sensor nodes into two major categories based the types of the sensor array (heterogeneous/homogeneous). It also emphasizes on the utilization of ad hoc networking and energy harvesting mechanisms as a fundamental cornerstone to building a self-governing, sustainable, and perpetually-operated sensor system. We review systems representative of each category and depict trends in system development.

Design of a Wireless Sensor Network Node Based on STM32

2013 ◽  
Vol 347-350 ◽  
pp. 1920-1923
Author(s):  
Yu Jia Sun ◽  
Xiao Ming Wang ◽  
Fang Xiu Jia ◽  
Ji Yan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Network Node ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Wireless Sensor Nodes ◽  
Communication Module ◽  
Design Factors

The characteristics and the design factors of wireless sensor network node are talked in this article. According to the design factors of wireless sensor network, this article will mainly point out the design of wireless sensor nodes based a Cortex-M3 Microcontroller STM32F103RE chip. And the wireless communication module is designed with a CC2430 chip. Our wireless sensor node has good performance in our test.

scholarly journals Design of a State Monitoring System for Equipment based on the Zigbee Wireless Sensor Network

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (06) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Hua ◽  
Xu Da ◽  
Fuquan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
State Monitoring ◽  
Sensor Module ◽  
Wireless Module ◽  
Hardware Circuit

For the sake of overcoming the shortcoming of some equipment such as complex wiring and much measurement parameter, a wireless state monitoring system is developed based on Zigbee, which was composed of upper monitor control PC, wireless gateway CC2530, sensor node CC2530 and sensor module. By studying the characteristic of the equipment, wireless sensor network of a center controller and six wireless sensor node was made up. Then the nod hardware circuit were designed, the wireless module software was programmed by C language, and furthermore, the user interface software was developed based on LabVIEW. The test is done to show that the system can meet state monitoring requirements for some equipment.

Energy-Saving Technologies of WSN

2012 ◽  
Vol 605-607 ◽  
pp. 566-569
Author(s):  
Rong Mao Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Node Energy

In order to layout convenient the wireless sensor node generally used battery for power supply, the node require working up to several months or even years but battery replacement was difficult or impossible. In this paper, research does not affect the function of WSN how to save the node energy consumption, which can work more time in large-scale collection, processing and communication of complex environmental data. Results show that the energy-saving technologies can be to reduce the energy consumption of 55.6%, which can greatly extend the working life of the wireless sensor node battery.

Structure Design of Energy Harvester for Supporting Paroxysmal Energy Collection

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhuan Zhu ◽  
S. Olutunde Oyadiji
Keyword(s):  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Energy Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Random Fluctuation ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Power Conditioner

This paper proposes a structure of energy harvester that is used to scavenge environment energy to power wireless sensor nodes. The ambient energy usually is from sunlight, wind, vibration, and so on. As the size of a sensor node is limited, the energy converted is normally small and has a prodigious random fluctuation. In order to improve the conversion efficiency of energy harvester, the paper proposes a power conversion circuit to collect rapidly paroxysmal energy generated by external environment. The circuit, as a power conditioner, bridges between energy transducers and the load of a wireless sensor node, and the power output of transducers are either AC or DC. The power conditioner implements AC-DC conversion, voltage adjusting and energy storage. A design model is developed to describe the dynamic behavior of the power conditioner under the different excitation from ambient energy sources, and energy conversion efficiency can be evaluated with the model. The proposed system architecture can be applied in the design of solar, wind or stochastic vibration energy harvesters.

Vibration-Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Wireless Sensor Node Application

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Malik M. Nauman ◽  
Farid U. Khan ◽  
Asif Iqbal ◽  
Muhammad Aamir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Node ◽  
Energy Harvester ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy

scholarly journals Implementasi Push Message Dengan Menggunakan Restful Web Service Pada Komunikasi Wireless Sensor

Repositor ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Rino Nugroho ◽  
Mahar Faiqurahman ◽  
Zamah Sari
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Network ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Sensor Network ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Message Mechanism ◽  
Restful Web Service

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of one or more nodes even numbering thousands. The nodes in the wireless sensor network (WSN) consist of sensor nodes and sink nodes. The use of wireless sensors on the network can form a node that can communicate with each other. The communication process generally uses a pull mechanism that precedes the data query process from the node to node sensor that provides sensing data. In some wireless sensor node architecture, this pull mechanism is considered less effective because the node sink must first request data to the sensor node. Alternative, a push message mechanism can be used to transmit sensed data within specified or determined time intervals.In this research is implemented push message mechanism by using restful web service in wireless sensor communications. Test results on the delivery of data by push data transmission obtained to sink nodes alternately in accordance with the order of destination address listed or stored in memory sensor node. And in doing data delivery to be efficient in the absence of data requests at any time.

scholarly journals Temperature estimation of induction machines based on wireless sensor networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-280
Author(s):  
Yi Huang ◽  
Clemens Gühmann
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Sensor Node ◽  
Induction Machine ◽  
Wireless Transmission ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Wireless Sensor Node ◽  
Stator Core ◽  
Temperature Estimation

Abstract. In this paper, a fourth-order Kalman filter (KF) algorithm is implemented in the wireless sensor node to estimate the temperatures of the stator winding, the rotor cage and the stator core in the induction machine. Three separate wireless sensor nodes are used as the data acquisition systems for different input signals. Six Hall sensors are used to acquire the three-phase stator currents and voltages of the induction machine. All of them are processed to root mean square (rms) in ampere and volt. A rotary encoder is mounted for the rotor speed and Pt-1000 is used for the temperature of the coolant air. The processed signals in the physical unit are transmitted wirelessly to the host wireless sensor node, where the KF is implemented with fixed-point arithmetic in Contiki OS. Time-division multiple access (TDMA) is used to make the wireless transmission more stable. Compared to the floating-point implementation, the fixed-point implementation has the same estimation accuracy at only about one-fifth of the computation time. The temperature estimation system can work under any work condition as long as there are currents through the machine. It can also be rebooted for estimation even when wireless transmission has collapsed or packages are missing.

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