Towards battery-free LPWAN wearables

Charalampos Orfanidis, Konstantinos Dimitrakopoulos, Xenofon Fafoutis, Martin Jacobsson

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Abstract

Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) is an emerging technology in IoT which is utilized in use cases like smart cities and smart agriculture. LPWAN offers new features to wearable systems and therefore introduces new application scenarios. Long range communication is already used in application scenariosm such as elderly monitoring, localization, sportsm etc. We demonstrate how LPWAN wearables can operate by using energy-harvesting means and be battery-free. This preliminary study with real experiments illustrates how the LoRa radio is able to operate by a combination of solar and mechanical energy on a smart shoe prototype outdoors. The results indicate that the activity can influence the harvest rate.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication date2019
Pages52-53
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-7010-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event7th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems - New York, United States
Duration: 10 Nov 201910 Nov 2019
Conference number: 7

Conference

Conference7th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems
Number7
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period10/11/201910/11/2019

Keywords

  • Wearable
  • Battery-free
  • LoRa
  • LPWAN

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