The state-of-the-art of sensors and environmental monitoring technologies in buildings

H Hayat, T Griffiths, D Brennan, RP Lewis, M Barclay… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Building energy consumption accounts for 30%–45% of the global energy demand. With an
ever-increasing world population, it has now become essential to minimize the energy …

A new generation of sensors and monitoring tools to support climate-smart forestry practices

C Torresan, M Benito Garzón, M O'grady… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Climate-smart forestry (CSF) is an emerging branch of sustainable adaptive forest
management aimed at enhancing the potential of forests to adapt to and mitigate climate …

Survey of energy harvesting technologies for wireless sensor networks

AJ Williams, MF Torquato, IM Cameron… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting (EH) technologies could lead to self-sustaining wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) which are set to be a key technology in Industry 4.0. There are numerous methods …

A perspective on plant robotics: from bioinspiration to hybrid systems

F Meder, B Baytekin, E Del Dottore… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
As miscellaneous as the Plant Kingdom is, correspondingly diverse are the opportunities for
taking inspiration from plants for innovations in science and engineering. Especially in …

Multisource energy conversion in plants with soft epicuticular coatings

F Meder, A Mondini, F Visentin, G Zini… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Living plants have recently been exploited for unusual tasks such as energy conversion and
environmental sensing. Yet, using plants as small-scale autonomous energy sources is …

Charge generation by passive plant leaf motion at low wind speeds: design and collective behavior of plant-hybrid energy harvesters

F Meder, S Armiento, GA Naselli… - Bioinspiration & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Energy harvesting techniques can exploit even subtle passive motion like that of plant
leaves in wind as a consequence of contact electrification of the leaf surface. The effect is …

A lightweight anomaly detection method based on SVDD for wireless sensor networks

Y Chen, S Li - Wireless Personal Communications, 2019 - Springer
Limited resources and harsh deployment environments may cause raw observations
collected by sensor nodes to have poor data quality and reliability, which will influence the …

A±0.5-mV-minimum-input DC-DC converter with stepwise adiabatic gate-drive and efficient timing control for thermoelectric energy harvesting

EJ Carlson, JR Smith - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a step-up DC-DC converter that uses a stepwise gate-drive technique to
reduce the power FET gate-drive energy by 82%, allowing positive efficiency down to an …

Internet of Natural Things (IoNT): An experimental evaluation of best position to harvest thermal energy from trees

MM Ferreira, MPMG Miguel… - … on Smart Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology concept where everyday objects feature
connectivity to the Internet based on embedded devices that need some energy source for …

An online remote verification system of thermal sources for energy harvesting application

MM Camboim, VS Oliveira, MR Villarim… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several thermoelectric energy harvesting applications have been introduced recently,
showing an increasing interest in thermoelectric energy, mainly using Thermoelectric …