Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

Indoor Energy Harvesting for WE-Safe Wearable IoT Sensor Nodes

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS 2018)

Part of the book series: EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing ((EAISICC))

Included in the following conference series:

  • 654 Accesses

Abstract

The power supply plays an important role in wireless sensor nodes because they are mainly powered by rechargeable batteries and require regular charging. For uninterrupted and convenient system design, energy harvesting for wearable devices is of great importance. This paper presents an indoor energy harvesting module designed for safety applications (called WE-Safe project). The whole system is designed and configured to consume minimum power. The energy harvesting module is able to harvest energy from ambient light at low illumination and store the energy into a super-capacitor. The energy harvesting module can provide sufficient power for sensing and data transmission via a LoRa network. In addition, the duty cycle can be adjusted automatically based on the current voltage level and light intensity.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Wu, F., Rüdiger, C., Yuce, M.R.: Real-time performance of a self-powered environmental IoT sensor network system. Sensors 17(2), 282 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3390/s17020282

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Wu, T., Wu, F., Redouté, J.M., Yuce, M.R.: An autonomous wireless body area network implementation towards IoT connected healthcare applications. IEEE Access 5, 11413–11422 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2716344

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Yuce, M.R., Khan, J.Y.: Wireless body area networks: technology, implementation and applications (2011). https://doi.org/10.4032/9789814241571, http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84881815399{&}partnerID=tZOtx3y1

  4. Latré, B., Braem, B., Moerman, I., Blondia, C., Demeester, P.: A survey on wireless body area networks. Wirel. Netw. 17(1), 1–18 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-010-0252-4

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Wilhelm, E., Siby, S., Zhou, Y., Ashok, X.J.S., Jayasuriya, M., Foong, S., Kee, J., Wood, K.L., Tippenhauer, N.O.: Wearable environmental sensors and infrastructure for mobile large-scale urban deployment. IEEE Sensors J. 16(22), 8111–8123 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2016.2603158

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Serbanescu, M., Placinta, V.M., Hutanu, O.E., Ravariu, C.: Smart, low power, wearable multi-sensor data acquisition system for environmental monitoring. In: 2017 10th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2017), pp. 118–123 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1109/ATEE.2017.7905059

  7. Antolín, D., Medrano, N., Calvo, B., Pérez, F.: A wearable wireless sensor network for indoor smart environment monitoring in safety applications. Sensors 17(2), 365 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3390/s17020365, http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/2/365

  8. Compher, E.M., Gupta, M.C., Wilson, W.C., Madaras, E.I.: Solar powered micrometeorite sensors using indoor ambient light for the International Space Station. Solar Energy 85(9), 1899–1905 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2011.04.029, http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0038092X11001496

  9. Zhou, G., Huang, L., Li, W., Zhu, Z.: Harvesting ambient environmental energy for wireless sensor networks: a survey. J. Sens. 2014, 815467 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/815467

  10. Hyland, M., Hunter, H., Liu, J., Veety, E., Vashaee, D.: Wearable thermoelectric generators for human body heat harvesting. Appl. Energy 182, 518–524 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.150

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Hamid, R., Yuce, M.R.: A wearable energy harvester unit using piezoelectric electromagnetic hybrid technique. Sens. Actuators A 257, 198–207 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2017.02.026

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Wu, F., Redout, J., Yuce, M.R.: We-safe: a self-powered wearable IoT sensor network for safety applications based on LoRa. IEEE Access 6, 40846–40853 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2859383

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Analog Devices: Ultralow power boost regulator with MPPT and charge management [Datasheet] (2015). http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ADP5090.pdf

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The work is supported, in part, by Monash University’s Faculty of Engineering Seed Funding, and by Australian Research Council Future Fellowships Grant FT130100430.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Fan Wu, Jean-Michel Redouté & Mehmet Rasit Yuce

Authors
  1. Fan Wu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jean-Michel Redouté
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Mehmet Rasit Yuce
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Mehmet Rasit Yuce .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Chika Sugimoto

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden

    Hamed Farhadi

  3. Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Matti Hämäläinen

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this paper

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this paper

Wu, F., Redouté, JM., Yuce, M.R. (2020). Indoor Energy Harvesting for WE-Safe Wearable IoT Sensor Nodes. In: Sugimoto, C., Farhadi, H., Hämäläinen, M. (eds) 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks . BODYNETS 2018. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29897-5_15

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29897-5_15

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-29896-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-29897-5

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics