Chapter 18 - Novel RFID Technologies Energy Harvesting for Self-powered Autonomous RFID Systems

Figure 18.1 Micro-Wireless Dot™ - Courtesy, Axcess International

Table 18.1 RFID/Sensor life time

Figure 18.2 Block diagram of an EH sensor

Table 18.2 Power densities of EH technologies

Figure 18.3 EH system for solar cells

Figure 18.4 Solar panel V-I characteristics

Figure 18.5 DC-DC buck-boost converter for solar EH

Figure 18.6 A thermoelectric transducer VI characteristics

Figure 18.7 Types of Vibration EH Transducers

Figure 18.8 Piezoelectric conversion modes

Table 18.3 Common vibration sources

Figure 18.9 Cantilever characteristics

Figure Block diagram of a vibration energy harvesting system

Figure DC-DC buck-boost converter with battery load

Figure Vision for EH based Micro-Wireless Dot™ sensor

Figure : Top view of the electrode patterns for cantilevers of different sizes

Figure MEMS cantilever – Courtesy, Texas MicroPower Inc

Table 18.4 Comparison of power densities

Figure Adaptive multi-source power management architecture