TY - GEN
T1 - IoT Sensor Network Powered by Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell
AU - Niwa, Masato
AU - Pan, Zhenni
AU - Shimamoto, Shigeru
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - The low power consumption in mW of the IEEE802.15.4/ZigBee standard is one of its feature, even though it requires the exchange of batteries. The cost of battery exchange for wireless sensors is considered as one of the critical problems for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Sediment microbial fuel cell (SMFC) can be a promising technology to replace conventional energy sources by renewable energy sources for wireless sensors, which has the potential to supply sustainable WSN without a replacement of batteries. However, SMFC cannot drive a microcontroller directly since it only provides ultra-low voltage and ultra-low current. In addition, from a general perspective, SMFC is costly to build for wireless sensors due to its materials costs. Considered about those challenges, this paper proposed a novel energy harvesting system for the ZigBee network which consists of the SMFC sensor and a power management circuit to accumulate adequate energy for load. Intermittent data transmission between the ZigBee end-device and coordinator is conducted with the designed energy harvesting system. The experimental results showed that the SMFC-powered ZigBee sensor device is eligible to enable intermittent communication in replacement of conventional battery.
AB - The low power consumption in mW of the IEEE802.15.4/ZigBee standard is one of its feature, even though it requires the exchange of batteries. The cost of battery exchange for wireless sensors is considered as one of the critical problems for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Sediment microbial fuel cell (SMFC) can be a promising technology to replace conventional energy sources by renewable energy sources for wireless sensors, which has the potential to supply sustainable WSN without a replacement of batteries. However, SMFC cannot drive a microcontroller directly since it only provides ultra-low voltage and ultra-low current. In addition, from a general perspective, SMFC is costly to build for wireless sensors due to its materials costs. Considered about those challenges, this paper proposed a novel energy harvesting system for the ZigBee network which consists of the SMFC sensor and a power management circuit to accumulate adequate energy for load. Intermittent data transmission between the ZigBee end-device and coordinator is conducted with the designed energy harvesting system. The experimental results showed that the SMFC-powered ZigBee sensor device is eligible to enable intermittent communication in replacement of conventional battery.
KW - IoT sensors
KW - ZigBee
KW - energy harvesting
KW - environment monitoring
KW - sediment microbial fuel cell
KW - wireless sensor network
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U2 - 10.1109/CCNC46108.2020.9045606
DO - 10.1109/CCNC46108.2020.9045606
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085527352
T3 - 2020 IEEE 17th Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2020
BT - 2020 IEEE 17th Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 17th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2020
Y2 - 10 January 2020 through 13 January 2020
ER -