Opportunities and Challenges in Energy Harvesting and Smart Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in integrated circuit consumption driven by IoT (Internet of Things) requirements offer new perspectives. Traditionally, energy harvesting was negligible compared to the consumption of the circuits. However, nowadays, new component trends enable energy harvesting as a promising solution to significantly improve the energy efficiency of an application or to simply eliminate the use of batteries in some devices such as IoT wireless sensor nodes. The sensor nodes provide extra-energy by gathering, kinetic (wind, waves, gravity, vibration), piezo, electromagnetic (radio frequencies, photovoltaic), or thermal energy (solar, thermal gradients) for an “unlimited” amount of time.

The target of this special issue is to investigate the recent trends of energy scavenging and to present the latest research, with particular focus on the power management policies combined with low-power operations for sustainable sensor networks, the design, and the modeling of energy-harvesting. Contributions to this Special Issue are invited to submit original papers and focused reviews.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Energy management techniques
• Hardware for energy-harvesting
• Internet of (battery-less) things
• Low power sensors and WSNs
• Adaptive algorithms
• Smart sensors and smart energy harvesting
• Simulations of Innovative solutions for sustainable sensor networks
• Transducer design and optimization
• System design, modeling and integration
• Real experimental verification and characterization

Prof. Dr. Carlo Trigona
Prof. Rym Chéour
Guest Editors

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