Thermal Energy Harvesting for Self-Powered Smart Home Sensors

This paper investigates the use of thermoelectric energy harvesting for embedded, self-powered sensor nodes in smart homes. In particular, one such application is self-powered pressure sensing in vacuum insulation panels for buildings. The panels greatly improve heating and...

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Main Authors: Yun, Maxwell, Ustun, Ecenur, Nadeau, Phillip, Chandrakasan, Anantha P
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112117
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-1625
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5977-2748