Sensor networks with battery-powered nodes can seldom simultaneously meet the design
goals of lifetime, cost, sensing reliability and sensing and transmission coverage. Energy …

Ground-breaking optical wireless power transfer (OWPT) techniques have gained significant
attention from both academia and industry in recent decades. Powering remote systems …

Transiently powered computing devices such as RFID tags, kinetic energy harvesters, and
smart cards typically rely on programs that complete a task under tight time constraints …

Computational RFID (CRFID) tags embed sensing and computation into the physical world.
The operation of the tags is limited by the RF energy that can be harvested from a nearby …

Micro-scale energy harvesting has emerged as an attractive and increasingly feasible option
to alleviate the power supply challenge in a variety of low power applications, such as …

The global energy crisis and environmental concerns (eg global warming) have driven the IT
community into the green computing era. Of clean, renewable energy sources, solar power …

Mobile sensing is difficult without power. Emerging Computational RFIDs (CRFIDs) provide
both sensing and general-purpose computation without batteries--instead relying on small …

The most significant barrier to improving passive RFID tag performance for both fixed
function ID tags and enhanced RFID tags is the limitation on the amount of power that can …

Wireless communication is continuing to make inroads into many facets of society and is
gradually becoming more and more ubiquitous. While in the past wireless communication …

Autonomous Things (AuT) refers to a collection of self-sufficient tiny devices capable of
performing intelligent computations. Looking ahead, AuT promises to enable ubiquitous …