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A low-cost UWB sensor node powered by a piezoelectric harvester or solar cells

Botteron, Cyril  
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Briand, Danick  
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Mishra, Biswajit  
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2016
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

We propose an autonomous battery-less wireless sensor node that combines on a single printed circuit board an ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter and its printed antenna, together with a piezoelectric cantilever and a solar cell array to harvest vibrations and light energy, respectively. The co-design of the solar cell array with the printed UWB antenna allows a prototype size of only 85x35 mm2, i.e., less than 65% of a credit card size. Low-cost is achieved by using inexpensive FR4 dual-layer substrate, standard-ceramic capacitors, and low-cost harvesters. The vibrational energy scavenger is fabricated at the wafer scale based on commercially available bulk polycrystalline Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT), and the solar cells are fabricated by depositing amorphous-Si on 0.5 mm thick glass substrate. The cold-startup time of the demonstrator is about 42 min under indoor-ambient light conditions, and about 34 min under 700 mg vibrations at a frequency of 100 Hz. Once started, the sensor requires only 12.6 µW to allow a transmission rate of one temperature sensor readout every 34 s, thanks to the UWB transmitter that consumes only 206 pJ per pulse and a custom protocol with a reduced overhead.

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DOI
10.1016/j.sna.2016.01.011
Web of Science ID

WOS:000371186600013

Author(s)
Botteron, Cyril  
Briand, Danick  
Mishra, Biswajit  
Tasselli, Gabriele  
Janphuang, Pattanaphong  
Haug, Franz-Josef  
Skrivervik, Anja  
Lockhart, Robert  
Robert, Christian  
de Rooij, Nicolas F.
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Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
Volume

239

Start page

127

End page

136

Subjects

Autonomous battery-less sensor

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Ultra-wideband transmitter

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Piezoelectric vibrational energy

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Harvester

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Solar cell

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Smart building

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IMT-NE Number : 833

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