The State of the Art in Energy Harvesting for IoT and WSNs (Second Edition)
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 855
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Interests: analysis and design of analog circuits; RF communication circuits; nonlinear circuit theory; circuit simulation; wireless sensor networks and electronic circuits for energy harvesting
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Dear Colleagues,
One of the most challenging issues in the design of Internet of Things (IoT)-based devices and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is powering sensor nodes. Since there are usually many nodes distributed within a large area, the wiring is complex, expensive and completely impractical. Energy can be obtained from disposable batteries, but these have a high environmental impact, limited reliability and high maintenance costs. An alternative eco-friendly solution is energy harvesting supply systems, which can locally convert otherwise wasted forms of energy available in the surrounding environment into electricity. Energy harvesting systems generally comprise an energy harvesting device that scavenges energy from ambient sources and a power management electronic circuit that maximizes power extraction and optimizes power distribution. Many types of harvesting devices have been developed to scavenge energy from different sources, including the sun, wind, vibrations, rainfall, electromagnetic fields, and so on. Hybrid energy harvesting devices have also been created with the aim of scavenging energy from multiple energy sources by exploiting various energy conversion mechanisms. In addition to an energy harvesting device dedicated to energy conversion, an energy harvesting supply system also requires the integration of a power management electronic circuit into the device to provide voltage rectification, extract energy maximization and optimize power distribution in the sensor node.
Topics of interest for publication include but are not limited to:
- Piezoelectric energy harvesting;
- Electromagnetic energy harvesting;
- Micro-wind energy harvesting;
- Micro-solar energy harvesting;
- Wearable energy harvesting;
- Hybrid energy harvesting;
- Circuits for energy harvesting;
- Synchronized Switching Harvesting on an Inductor (SSHI);
- Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction (SECE);
- Maximum power point tracking techniques;
- Low-power electronics.
Dr. Alessandro Lo Schiavo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- piezoelectric energy harvesting
- electromagnetic energy harvesting
- micro-wind energy harvesting
- micro-solar energy harvesting
- wearable energy harvesting
- hybrid energy harvesting
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