Energy harvesting enables novel devices and applications without batteries, but intermittent
operation under energy harvesting poses new challenges to memory consistency that …

Energy-scavenging devices with general-purpose microcontrollers can support arbitrarily
complex sensing tasks in theory, but in practice, energy limitations impose severe …

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 …

The uplink and downlink transmissions in most backscatter communication systems are
highly asymmetric. The downlink transmission often suffers from its short range and …

With continuous improvements in the ef? ciency of microelectronics, it is now possible to
power a general-purpose microcontroller wirelessly at a reasonable range. Our …

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 …

Designing ultra-low power RFID sensor tags is a major challenge, especially when
incorporating a micro-controller (MCU) to operate sensors. While simplifying MCU …

Self-powered timers provide a mechanism to achieve temporal synchronization between two
passive devices (for eg, RF tags, credit/access cards, and thumb drives) without the need for …

This work analyzes the stochastic behavior of writing to embedded flash memory at voltages
lower than recommended by a microcontroller's specifications to reduce energy …

The simplicity of deployment and perpetual operation of energy harvesting devices provides
a compelling proposition for a new class of edge devices for the Internet of Things. In …