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Low Power and Energy Efficient Sensing Applications

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 12344

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Vedran Bilas

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Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: electromagnetic induction sensing; sensor interfaces and signal processing; networked embedded sensors; low power electronic systems
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Dr. Michele Magno

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Department of Electronic Informatic Technology and Electric Engineering (ITIT), ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: low power embedded systems; sensors systems; wireless sensor networks; energy harvesting; low power machine learning; microcontrollers; energy efficiency
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The ongoing “smartization” in many aspects of our lives builds on numerous sensing systems embedded in wearable and mobile devices, vehicles, machines, appliances, environment or infrastructure. Those sensing systems are smart and low-power, continuously locally processing the sensor data. This Special Issue aims to present recent research and technology advancements and experiences in applications of low power sensing focusing on small form devices, hardware, and algorithms enabling smart sensors with very low power consumption, energy efficiency, and eventually achieving battery-less or perpetual operation.

Prof. Dr. Vedran Bilas
Dr. Michele Magno
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Low-power smart sensors 
  • Energy-efficient sensor interfaces 
  • Embedded systems for low-power sensing
  • Low-power sensor signal processing
  • Machine learning in resource-constraint processors
  • Energy harvesting for smart sensors
  • Self-sustaining sensors 
  • Zero-power sensors
  • Sensing applications and deployments

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Low-Power Sensor Interface with a Switched Inductor Frequency Selective Envelope Detector
by Marko Gazivoda and Vedran Bilas
Sensors 2021, 21(6), 2124; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21062124 - 18 Mar 2021
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With the growing need to understand our surroundings and improved means of sensor manufacturing, the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more interesting. To enable continuous monitoring and event detection by IoT, the development of low power sensors and interfaces is [...] Read more.
With the growing need to understand our surroundings and improved means of sensor manufacturing, the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more interesting. To enable continuous monitoring and event detection by IoT, the development of low power sensors and interfaces is required. In this work we present a novel, switched inductor based acoustic sensor interface featuring a bandpass filter and envelope detector, perform a sensitivity, frequency selectivity, and power consumption analysis of the circuit, and present its design parameters and their qualitative influence on circuit characteristics. We develop a prototype and present experimental characterization of the interface and its operation with input signals up to 20 mV peak-to-peak, at low acoustic frequencies from 100 Hz to 1 kHz. The prototype achieves a sensitivity of approximately 2 mV/mV in the passband, a four times lower sensitivity in the stopband, and a power consumption of approximately 3.31 µW. We compare the prototype interface to an interface consisting of an active bandpass filter and a passive voltage doubler using a prerecorded speedboat signal. Full article
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Passive Extraction of Signal Feature Using a Rectifier with a Mechanically Switched Inductor for Low Power Acoustic Event Detection
by Marko Gazivoda, Dinko Oletić, Carlo Trigona and Vedran Bilas
Sensors 2020, 20(18), 5445; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20185445 - 22 Sep 2020
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Analog hardware used for signal envelope extraction in low-power interfaces for acoustic event detection, owing to its low complexity and power consumption, suffers from low sensitivity and performs poorly under low signal to noise ratios (SNR) found in undersea environments. To overcome those [...] Read more.
Analog hardware used for signal envelope extraction in low-power interfaces for acoustic event detection, owing to its low complexity and power consumption, suffers from low sensitivity and performs poorly under low signal to noise ratios (SNR) found in undersea environments. To overcome those problems, in this paper, we propose a novel passive electromechanical solution for the signal feature extraction in low frequency acoustic range (200–1000 Hz), in the form of a piezoelectric vibration transducer, and a rectifier with a mechanically switched inductor. A simulation study of the novel solution is presented, and a proof-of-concept device is developed and experimentally characterized. We demonstrate its applicability and show the advantages of the passive electromechanical device in comparison to the active electrical solution in terms of operation with lower input signals (<20 mV compared to 40 mV), and higher robustness in low SNR conditions (output voltage loss for −10 dB ≤ SNR < 40 dB of 1 mV, compared to 10 mV). In addition to the signal processing performance improvements, compared to our previous work, the utilization of the presented novel passive feature extractor would also decrease power consumption of a detector’s channel by over 76%, enabling life-time extension and/or increased quality of detection with larger number of channels. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first solution presented in the literature that demonstrates the possibility of using a passive electromechanical feature extractor in a low-power analog wake-up event detector interface. Full article
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Energy per Operation Optimization for Energy-Harvesting Wearable IoT Devices
by Jaehyun Park, Ganapati Bhat, Anish NK, Cemil S. Geyik, Umit Y. Ogras and Hyung Gyu Lee
Sensors 2020, 20(3), 764; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20030764 - 30 Jan 2020
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Wearable internet of things (IoT) devices can enable a variety of biomedical applications, such as gesture recognition, health monitoring, and human activity tracking. Size and weight constraints limit the battery capacity, which leads to frequent charging requirements and user dissatisfaction. Minimizing the energy [...] Read more.
Wearable internet of things (IoT) devices can enable a variety of biomedical applications, such as gesture recognition, health monitoring, and human activity tracking. Size and weight constraints limit the battery capacity, which leads to frequent charging requirements and user dissatisfaction. Minimizing the energy consumption not only alleviates this problem, but also paves the way for self-powered devices that operate on harvested energy. This paper considers an energy-optimal gesture recognition application that runs on energy-harvesting devices. We first formulate an optimization problem for maximizing the number of recognized gestures when energy budget and accuracy constraints are given. Next, we derive an analytical energy model from the power consumption measurements using a wearable IoT device prototype. Then, we prove that maximizing the number of recognized gestures is equivalent to minimizing the duration of gesture recognition. Finally, we utilize this result to construct an optimization technique that maximizes the number of gestures recognized under the energy budget constraints while satisfying the recognition accuracy requirements. Our extensive evaluations demonstrate that the proposed analytical model is valid for wearable IoT applications, and the optimization approach increases the number of recognized gestures by up to 2.4× compared to a manual optimization. Full article
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