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Batteryless sensor nodes powered solely by energy harvesting are a promising alternative to battery-powered sensor nodes. However, since the energy harvesting rate from these sources is often very low, unreliable, and time-varying, nodes cannot sustain a ...

Batteryless systems offer promising platforms to support pervasive, near-sensor intelligence in a sustainable manner. These systems solely rely on ambient energy sources that often provide limited power. One common approach to designing batteryless ...

Two classes of intermittency have emerged in the batteryless intermittent research community: hard intermittency and soft inter-mittency. While conceptually similar, these two intermittencies represent very different approaches to the intermittency ...

Designing batteryless sensors presents many challenges, starting with selecting the right components for a particular application. Every new sensor added to a device can be costly, both monetarily and in energy expense. Recent research has begun to look ...

Batteryless energy-harvesting sensing systems are attractive for low maintenance but face challenges in real-world applications due to the low quality of service from sporadic and unpredictable energy availability. To overcome this challenge, recent ...

Batteryless energy-harvesting sensing systems are attractive for low maintenance but face challenges in real-world applications due to low quality of service from sporadic and unpredictable energy availability. To overcome this challenge, recent data-...

Accurate timekeeping is a critical challenge for many intermittently-powered computing devices. Current approaches to keeping time across power failures provide either limited resolution or require additional hardware. We would like to introduce one ...

Energy management can extend the lifetime of batteryless, energy-harvesting systems by judiciously utilizing the energy available. Duty cycling of such systems is especially challenging for event detection, as events arrive sporadically and energy ...

Batteryless sensors avoid battery replacement at the cost of slowing down or stopping their operations when there is not sufficient energy to harvest in the environment. While this strategy can work for some applications, event-based applications still ...

TelemetRing is a batteryless and wireless ring-shaped keyboard that supports command and text entry in daily lives by detecting finger typing on various surfaces. The proposed inductive telemetry approach eliminates bulky batteries or capacitors from ...

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of μmedIC, a fully-integrated wireless and batteryless micro-implanted sensor. The sensor powers up by harvesting energy from RF signals and communicates at near-zero power via backscatter. In ...

Sensing systems for long-term monitoring constitute an important part of the emerging Internet of Things. In this domain, energy harvesting and infrastructure-less communication enable truly autonomous and maintenance-free operation of sensor nodes ...

The intermittent operation of batteryless devices makes it difficult to have time information in order to synchronize and communicate between these devices. In this paper, we analyze time remanence clocks and compare them with real time clocks in keeping ...

Collaboration of batteryless nodes is essential to their success in replacing traditional battery-based systems. Energy-harvesting sensor nodes experience spatio-temporal fluctuations of energy availability. These fluctuations become especially critical ...

We introduce Neuro.ZERO---a co-processor architecture consisting of a main microcontroller (MCU) that executes scaled-down versions of a deep neural network¹ (DNN) inference task, and an accelerator microcontroller that is powered by harvested energy ...

This paper presents RFTouchPads, a system of batteryless and wireless modular hardware designs of two-dimensional (2D) touch sensor pads based on the ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. In this system, multiple ...

Wearable devices are very promising for addressing a range of urgent needs in health and eldercare, safety, activity tracking, wellbeing, entertainment, and myriad other applications. By continuously sensing and analyzing data these platforms have also ...

This paper presents a technique enabling distributed batteryless near-field identification (ID) between two passive radio frequency ID (RFID) tags. Each conventional ultra-high-frequency (UHF) RFID tag is modified by connecting its antenna and chip to a ...

Sensing platforms are becoming batteryless to enable the vision of the Internet of Things, where trillions of devices collect data, interact with each other, and interact with people. However, these batteryless sensing platforms—that rely purely on ...

Near Field Communications (NFC) is an emerging technology that conveniently establishes radio communication by bringing two entities in close proximity of one another. Many use cases for devices equipped with this technology have been proposed ranging ...