Numerous energy harvesting mobile and wireless devices that will serve as building blocks for the Internet of Things (IoT) are currently under development. However, there is still only limited understanding of the energy availability from various sources and its impact on energy harvesting-adaptive algorithms. Hence, we focus on characterizing the kinetic (motion) energy that can be harvested by a mobile device with an IoT form factor . We first discuss methods for estimating harvested energy from acceleration traces. We then briefly describe experiments with moving objects and provide insights into the suitability of different scenarios for harvesting. To characterize the energy availability associated with specific human activities (e.g., relaxing, walking, and cycling), we analyze a motion dataset with over 40 participants. Based on acceleration measurements that we collected for over 200 hours, we also study energy generation processes associated with day-long human routines. Finally, we use our measurement traces to evaluate the performance of energy harvesting-adaptive algorithms . Overall, the observations will provide insights into the design of networking algorithms and motion energy harvesters, which will be embedded in mobile devices .
Numerous energy harvesting wireless devices that will serve as building blocks for the Internet of Things (IoT) are currently under development. However, there is still only limited understanding of the properties of various energy sources and their impact on energy harvesting adaptive algorithms. Hence, we focus on characterizing the kinetic (motion) energy that can be harvested by a wireless node with an IoT form factor and on developing energy allocation algorithms for such nodes. In this paper, we describe methods for estimating harvested energy from acceleration traces. To characterize the energy availability associated with specific human activities (e.g., relaxing, walking, cycling), we analyze a motion dataset with over 40 participants. Based on acceleration measurements that we collected for over 200 hours, we study energy generation processes associated with day-long human routines. We also briefly summarize our experiments with moving objects. We develop energy allocation algorithms that take into account practical IoT node design considerations, and evaluate the algorithms using the collected measurements. Our observations provide insights into the design of motion energy harvesters, IoT nodes, and energy harvesting adaptive algorithms .
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