Energy Harvesting in M2M and WSN Space

Abstract

Energy harvesting or power harvesting or energy scavenging is a process where energy is derived from external sources (e.g. solar power, thermal energy, wind energy, salinity gradients, kinetic energy etc.), captured, and stored for small, wireless autonomous devices, like those used in wearable electronics and wireless sensor networks. This paper is focused to applications of Energy Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Networks. This is going to help the ever growing M2M (Machine to Machine) field where there is an exponential growth of intelligent devices and automatic control of these is of paramount importance.