The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries
This article describes the design, implementation, and use of a new system to investigate the behavior of small batteries that power sensor and wireless systems that consume relatively high power during infrequent short activity periods. The system enables simple, low-cost, long-term (days to weeks)...
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| description | This article describes the design, implementation, and use of a new system to investigate the behavior of small batteries that power sensor and wireless systems that consume relatively high power during infrequent short activity periods. The system enables simple, low-cost, long-term (days to weeks) monitoring of batteries under such loads. Data collected by this system revealed a major cause of failures in wildlife tracking tags, an effect called concentration polarization, which causes a transient increase in the internal resistance of the battery. The article describes the goals and the design of the system, failures that it revealed, mechanisms to mitigate the limitations of miniature batteries, as well as a methodology to optimize and validate the design of tags powered by miniature batteries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1955b28a8f8941ca94b71e1ca05e9cd72024-02-09T15:21:43ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-01-0124374810.3390/s24030748The Secret Lives of Miniature BatteriesSivan Toledo0Shai Mendel1The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, IsraelThe Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, IsraelThis article describes the design, implementation, and use of a new system to investigate the behavior of small batteries that power sensor and wireless systems that consume relatively high power during infrequent short activity periods. The system enables simple, low-cost, long-term (days to weeks) monitoring of batteries under such loads. Data collected by this system revealed a major cause of failures in wildlife tracking tags, an effect called concentration polarization, which causes a transient increase in the internal resistance of the battery. The article describes the goals and the design of the system, failures that it revealed, mechanisms to mitigate the limitations of miniature batteries, as well as a methodology to optimize and validate the design of tags powered by miniature batteries.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/3/748batteriesinternal resistancereservoir capacitorcurrent limitingconcentration polarizationwildlife tracking tags |
| spellingShingle | Sivan Toledo Shai Mendel The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries Sensors batteries internal resistance reservoir capacitor current limiting concentration polarization wildlife tracking tags |
| title | The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries |
| title_full | The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries |
| title_fullStr | The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries |
| title_short | The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries |
| title_sort | secret lives of miniature batteries |
| topic | batteries internal resistance reservoir capacitor current limiting concentration polarization wildlife tracking tags |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/3/748 |
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