Abstract
Sensors used for detecting combustible gases consume significant amounts of power. Energy management for these sensors can become an important issue when they are used as part of a wireless sensor network. This is because of the fact that wireless sensors are usually powered by batteries. Batteries have a finite lifetime and their replacement can take a considerable amount of time in a gas monitoring application where thousands of sensor nodes are deployed to measure the concentration of flammable gases. Moreover, the battery replacement procedure can turn into a more complicated task if the gas monitoring network is located in a harsh environment. Energy harvesting is a method which can increase the operation time of wireless gas sensor networks. In this article, we present a multisource harvesting circuit for a wireless gas sensor node. As for ambient sources, we have chosen solar and wind energy. Energy from ambient sources is stored in supercapacitors which have a capacity of 400 F. We prove that a catalytic gas sensor can operate for 2 days without batteries by using the developed scheme.
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The authors would like to thank Professor Alexander Baranov from Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) for his assistance and support in preparing the manuscript. This work was supported by grant No. RFMEFI57714X0133 from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation.
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Akbari, S., Spirjakin, D., Sleptsov, V., Savkin, A. (2017). A Multisource Energy Harvesting Platform for Wireless Methane Sensor. In: Grzenda, M., Awad, A., Furtak, J., Legierski , J. (eds) Advances in Network Systems . iNetSApp 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 461. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44354-6_19
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