Latest Issue of Proceedings of the IEEE Investigates Energy Harvesting and Scavenging

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Jan. 22, 2015 - PRLog -- Energy harvesting and scavenging techniques are an area of intrigue for the engineering community, and an important part of the dialogue revolving around sustainable energy in the future. The November issue of Proceedings of the IEEE (http://www.ieee.org/proceedings), the most highly cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science, is dedicated to exploring those and other topics.

In the coming years, could our energy come from “energy skins” strategically placed on airplanes and grocery store shelves? Just how efficient are our current “renewable” transducer technologies, such as solar, electromagnetic, thermal and others? What have we learned about the practical implementation of autonomous ‘‘energy-harvesting-enabled’’ systems in wearable, implantable and ‘‘smart house’’ applications? This special issue explores those topics and more.

A sampling of papers in the November issue of Proceedings of the IEEE include:

“Ambient RF Energy Harvesting Technologies for Self-Sustainable Standalone Wireless Sensor Platforms,” by Sangkil Kim, Rushi Vyas, Jo Bito, 
Kyriaki Niotaki, Ana Collado, Apostolos Georgiadis and Manos M. Tentzeris. Investigating solar, thermal, wireless, piezoelectric and other ambient energy-harvesting technologies, this paper examines their applicability in the development of self-sustaining wireless platforms.

“Smart Surfaces: Large Area Electronics Systems for Internet of Things Enabled by Energy Harvesting,” by Luca Roselli, Nuno Borges Carvalho, Federico Alimenti, Paolo Mezzanotte, Giulia Orecchini, Marco Virili, Chiara Mariotti, Ricardo Gonçalves and Pedro Pinho. Energy harvesting is well established as one of the prominent enabling technologies for the pervasive development of Internet of Things (IoT). This paper focuses on large-area ‘‘smart surfaces,’’ RFID systems, and wearable RF electronics that could substantially benefit from multisource energy harvesting.

“Textile Antennas as Hybrid Energy-Harvesting Platforms,” by Sam Lemey, Frederick Declercq and Hendrik Rogier. Smart fabric interactive textile (SFIT) systems have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of life. This type of system could aid first responders or firefighters during rescue missions and interventions; facilitate wireless monitoring of vital signs of patients in hospitals; and even remotely monitor patients in their homes. This authors examine the practicalities and potential of such systems.

Other papers within the issue include “Radio-Frequency Rectifier for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting: Development Path and Future Outlook,” “Solar/Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transmission,” “Remote Powered Medical Implants for Telemonitoring,” “Vibration Energy Harvesting Based on Magnet and Coil Arrays for Watt-Level Handheld Power Source” and more.

Guest editors for this issue include IEEE Fellow Manos M. Tentzeris, a professor with the School of 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia 
Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.; IEEE Senior Member Apostolos Georgiadis, a senior research associate and group leader of the Microwave Systems and Nanotechnology Department, Technological Telecommunications Center of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in the Communication Technologies Division, where he is involved in studying active antennas, antenna arrays and more recently RFID technology and energy harvesting; and IEEE Senior Member Luca Roselli, associate professor at University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, where he has been coordinating research activity at the High Frequency Electronics (HFE) Laboratory since 2000.

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