Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 342-351Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2714119
Keywords
Energy harvesting; Internet of Things (IoT); low power; maximum power point tracking (MPPT); photovoltaic (PV); piezoelectric (PZ); wireless sensor nodes (WSN)
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This paper presents a low-power batteryless energy harvesting system for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A dual-mode dc-dc converter is used to harvest the energy of amicroscale photovoltaic (PV) transducer and provides energy, in the boost mode, to a super capacitor for storage. In the buck mode, the dc-dc converter provides energy to the load on demand. A piezoelectric transducer is used as a secondary input source to guarantee system self startup. The proposed system includes a smart control to adaptively adjust the number of sensors at the load, leading to better usage of the available energy at any given time. The implementation also includes a programmable switch sizing to optimize the overall system's efficiency for different load conditions. A maximum power point tracking is used to extract the maximum power of the PV transducer under various illumination conditions. The system has been implemented in a CMOS 130-nm technology and tested in various modes of operation. Self startup has been verified, and a peak efficiency of 90.5% has been measured.
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