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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Advanced Monitoring Systems Based on Battery-Less Asset Tracking Modules Energized through RF Wireless Power Transfer.

Roberto La Rosa, Catherine Dehollain, Patrizia Livreri

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Roberto La RosaSTMicroelectronics, Stradale Primosole 50, 95121 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5296-9994
Catherine DehollainEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 1015 Losanne, Switzerland.
Patrizia LivreriDepartment of Engineering, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed.9, 90128 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8599-0418
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHSTMicroelectronics (Italy) · ITUniversity of Palermo · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asset tracking involving accurate location and transportation data is highly suited to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) featuring battery-less nodes that can be deployed in virtually any environment and require little or no maintenance. In response to the growing demand for advanced battery-less sensor tag solutions, this article presents a system for identifying and monitoring the speeds of assets in a WSN with battery-less tags that receive all their operating energy through radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) architecture, and a unique measurement approach to generate time-domain speed readouts. The assessment includes performance characteristics and key features of a system on chip (SoC) purposely designed to power a node through RF WPT. The result is an innovative solution for RF to DC conversion able to address the principal difficulties associated with maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) with sensitivity and vice versa, a strategy, and a design optimization model to indicate the number of readers required for reliable asset identification and speed measurement. Model validation is performed through specific tests. Experimental results demonstrating the viability of the proposed advanced monitoring system are provided.

Indexed as

energy harvestinginternet of thingsradio frequencywireless battery chargerwireless power transferwireless sensor networkswptwsns

Identifiers

PMID32466540
PMCPMC7309015
OpenAlexW3026912515

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