An energy harvesting scheme for underwater sensor applications

Rezaei, Hamid Fahim; Kruger, Anton; Just, Craig L.

doi:10.1109/eit.2012.6220721

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“…To investigate the content of nitrogen in sea water as a measure of the quality of water, a mechanism is proposed in [88]. The mussel present in sea water is used as a sensing animal that shortens or widens the gap between its two valves in response to the nitrogen concentration present in water.…”

Section: E Energy Harvesting From Marine Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Harvesting in Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Design, Taxonomy, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

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In underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks (UAWSNs), energy harvesting either enhances the lifetime of a network by increasing the battery power of sensor nodes or ensures battery-less operation of nodes. This, in effect, results in sustainable and reliable operation of the network deployed for various underwater applications. This work provides a survey of the energy harvesting techniques for UAWSNs. Our work is unique than the existing work on underwater energy harvesting in that it includes state-of-the art techniques designed in the last decade. It analyzes every harvesting scheme in terms of its main idea, merits, demerits and the extent of the harvested power (energy). The description of the merits results in selection of the suitable scheme for the suitable underwater applications. The demerits of the addressed schemes provide an insight to their future enhancement and improvement. Moreover, the harvested techniques are classified into various categories depending upon the involved energy harvesting mechanism and compared based on the maximum and minimum amount of harvested power, which helps in selection of the suitable category keeping in view the power budget of an underwater network before deployment. The challenges in energy harvesting and in UAWSNs are described to provide an insight to them and to address them for further enhancement in the harvested extent. Finally, research directions are specified for future investigation.

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Section: E Energy Harvesting From Marine Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Harvesting in Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Design, Taxonomy, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

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“…Turbines are devices that convert kinetic energy of wind or water into rotational motion. Turbine Energy Harvesters usually convert energy from the wind or ocean to usable energy [17,40,41]. They are mostly not stand-alone harvesters, as they always require the aid of some other means of energy transduction mechanisms; which are usually that of Vibration Harvesters, in order to efficiently convert the energy from the wind or water to usable output [17].…”

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Energy Harvesting Mechanisms in a Smart City—A Review

Akin-Ponnle

Carvalho

2021

Smart Cities

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The issue of how to power the deployed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes with ubiquitous and long lasting energy in order to ensure uninterruptible optimisation of smart cities is of utmost concern. This among other challenges has continued to gear efforts toward energy harvesting research. With the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that nearly paralysed activities of everyday living in many nations of the world, option of human remote interaction to enforce social distancing became imperative. Hence, the world is witnessing a renewed awareness of the importance of IoT devices, as integral components of smart city, especially for the essence of survival in the face of lockdown. Energy harvesting is a possible solution that could enable IoT nodes to scavenge self-sustaining energy from environmental ambient sources. In this paper, we have reviewed most sources within city that energy could be harvested from, as reported by researchers in literature. In addition, we have submitted that energy sources can be application specific, such that, since there are many free sources in the city as presented in this review, energy should be scavenged within close proximity of need for various IoT devices or wireless sensor networks (WSNs), for smart city automation.

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“…Even though energy-harvesting technologies (bacterial, etc.) are constantly improving [25], [26], they tend to deliver power outputs around 1 Watt, which could only sustain a commercial modem in a sleep mode [27].…”

Section: B the Three E's: Energy Economics And Endurancementioning

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Autonomy and networking challenges of future underwater systems

Blouin

Heard

Pecknold

2015

2015 IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)

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In the last decade, the use of underwater systems of all kinds has seen a steady increase. In this publication, we advocate the use of such systems in a complementary, collective, and networked manner. Even though today's achievements of such systems look impressive, the level of autonomy and networking required for tomorrow's needs remains deficient. After reviewing current trends and limitations, we formulate challenges pertaining to research areas that are key for future employments of underwater systems. We conclude by discussing future research efforts, especially those at the DRDC Atlantic Research Centre.

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An energy harvesting scheme for underwater sensor applications

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Energy Harvesting in Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Design, Taxonomy, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

Energy Harvesting in Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Networks: Design, Taxonomy, Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

Energy Harvesting Mechanisms in a Smart City—A Review

Autonomy and networking challenges of future underwater systems

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