Demonstration of a low-power energy management module with emergency reserve for solar-powered DTN-nodes

DTN nodes often idly wait for contacts and unnecessarily consume energy during these periods. For solar-powered nodes this means that solar panels and batteries could be much smaller with an efficient energy management, reducing the physical size of ...

• A low-power MPPT is used for both harvesting energy and measuring solar irradiance.

Solar energy radiation measurements are essential in precision agriculture and forest monitoring and can be readily performed by attaching commercial pyranometers to autonomous sensor nodes. However this solution significantly ...

A unique method has been developed to scavenge energy from monocrystaline solar cells to power wireless router nodes used in indoor applications. The system's energy harvesting module consists of solar cells connected in series-parallel combination to ...